1 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
2 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series includes
3 several major bugfixes from previous series and one massive new feature:
6 Congestion control should improve traffic speed and stability on the network
7 once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more details about it in
8 proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
10 For a complete list of changes since 0.4.6.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
12 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
13 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
15 o Minor features (geoip data):
16 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
17 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
19 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
20 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down to
21 info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix on
25 Changes in version 0.4.7.6-rc - 2022-04-07
26 This is the first release candidate of the 0.4.7.x series. Only one minor
27 bugfix went in since the last alpha couple weeks ago. We strongly recommend
28 anyone running an alpha version to upgrade to this version. Unless major
29 problems are found, the next release will finally be the stable!
31 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
32 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 07, 2022.
34 o Minor features (geoip data):
35 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
36 retrieved on 2022/04/07.
38 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
39 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
40 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
43 Changes in version 0.4.7.5-alpha - 2022-03-25
44 This version contains, of what we hope, the final work for congestion
45 control paving the way to the stable version. We expect this to be the last
46 alpha version of the 0.4.7.x series. Mostly minor bugfixes except one major
47 bugfix that changes how Tor behaves with DNS timeouts for Exit relays. As
48 always with an alpha, we recommend all relay operators to upgrade from
49 previous alpha to this one.
51 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
52 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
53 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
54 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
56 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
57 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
58 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
59 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
60 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
61 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
63 o Minor features (control port):
64 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
65 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
67 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
68 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on March 25, 2022.
70 o Minor features (geoip data):
71 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
72 retrieved on 2022/03/25.
74 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
75 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
76 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
78 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
79 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
80 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
81 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
84 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
85 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
86 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
87 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
88 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
90 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
91 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
92 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
93 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
95 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
96 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
97 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
98 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
99 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
102 Changes in version 0.4.7.4-alpha - 2022-02-25
103 This version contains the negotiation congestion control work which is the
104 final part needed before going stable. There are also various bugfixes
105 including two major ones detailed below. Last, the Exit notice page layout
106 has been modernized but the text is unchanged. We recommend that all relay
107 operators running any previous alpha upgrade to this one.
109 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
110 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
111 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
112 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
114 o Major bugfixes (client):
115 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
116 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
117 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
118 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
119 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
120 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
122 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
123 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
124 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
125 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
127 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
128 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
131 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
132 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 25, 2022.
134 o Minor features (geoip data):
135 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
136 retrieved on 2022/02/25.
138 o Minor bugfix (logging):
139 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
140 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
142 o Minor bugfix (relay):
143 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
144 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
147 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
148 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
149 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
150 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
153 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
154 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
155 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
157 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
158 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
159 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
162 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
163 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
164 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
165 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
168 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
169 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
170 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
172 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
173 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
175 o Minor features (geoip data):
176 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
177 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
179 o Minor bugfix (logging):
180 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
181 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
183 o Minor bugfix (relay):
184 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
185 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
188 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
189 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
190 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
193 Changes in version 0.4.5.12 - 2022-02-04
194 This version contains mostly minor bugfixes for which you can find the
195 details below. The previous release (0.4.5.11) was suppose to update the
196 GeoIP and fallbackdir lists but a problem in our release pipeline prevented
197 those files to be updated correctly. Thus, this release regenerates up to
198 date lists. Furthermore, another fix to highlight is that relays don't
199 advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
201 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
202 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
203 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
206 o Minor features (compilation):
207 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
208 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
209 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
210 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
213 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
214 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
216 o Minor features (geoip data):
217 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
218 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
220 o Minor bugfix (logging):
221 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
222 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
224 o Minor bugfix (relay):
225 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
226 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
229 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
230 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
231 that does not support expanding statically initialized const
232 values in macro's. Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
233 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
234 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
235 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
236 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
238 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
239 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
240 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
242 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
243 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
244 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
245 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
246 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
249 Changes in version 0.4.7.3-alpha - 2021-12-15
250 This third alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series fixes several bugs including
251 two major ones affecting Bridges and Relays (see below). If you are running
252 an earlier 0.4.7.x version, you should upgrade to this version.
254 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
255 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
256 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
257 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
258 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
259 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
260 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
261 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
264 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
265 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
266 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
267 and not the DNS server itself.
268 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
269 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
270 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
271 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
272 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
273 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
274 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
276 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
277 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
278 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
281 o Minor features (compilation):
282 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
283 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
284 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
285 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
288 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
289 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
291 o Minor features (geoip data):
292 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
293 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
295 o Minor features (portability):
296 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
297 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
300 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
301 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
302 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
303 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
305 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
306 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
307 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
308 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
309 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
310 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
311 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
312 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
314 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
315 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
316 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
317 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
318 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
320 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
321 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
322 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
323 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
324 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
325 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
327 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
328 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
329 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
330 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
331 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
332 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
334 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
335 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
336 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
337 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
338 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
339 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
341 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
342 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
343 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
344 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
345 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
347 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
348 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
349 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
350 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
351 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
353 o Documentation (man, relay):
354 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
355 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
358 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
359 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
360 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
361 See below for more details.
363 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
364 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
365 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
366 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
367 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
369 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
370 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
371 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
374 o Minor features (compilation):
375 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
376 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
377 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
378 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
381 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
382 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
384 o Minor features (geoip data):
385 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
386 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
388 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
389 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
390 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
391 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
392 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
394 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
395 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
396 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
397 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
398 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
400 o Documentation (man, relay):
401 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
402 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
405 Changes in version 0.4.7.2-alpha - 2021-10-26
406 This second alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series adds two major
407 features: congestion control (prop324) for network performance, and
408 the MiddleOnly flag (prop335) voted by the authorities to pin relays
409 to the middle position for various network health reasons. This
410 release also fixes numerous bugs.
412 The congestion control feature, detailed in proposal 324, still needs
413 more work before we can enable it by default. It is currently in its
414 testing and tuning phase which means that you should expect more
415 0.4.7.x alphas as congestion control gets stabilized and tuned for
416 optimal performance. And so, at this release, it can not be used
417 without a custom patch.
419 o Major features (congestion control):
420 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
421 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
423 o Major features (directory authority):
424 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
425 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
426 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
427 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
428 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
429 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
430 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
431 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
432 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
434 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
435 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
436 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
437 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
438 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
440 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
441 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
442 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
443 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
444 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
445 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
446 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
448 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
449 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
450 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
452 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
453 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
454 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
455 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
457 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
458 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
460 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
461 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
464 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
465 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
466 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
467 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
468 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
469 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
470 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
472 o Minor features (testing):
473 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
474 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
477 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
478 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
479 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
481 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
482 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
483 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
484 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
487 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
488 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
489 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
490 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
491 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
492 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
493 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
494 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
496 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
497 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
498 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
499 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
501 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
502 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
503 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
504 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
506 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
507 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
508 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
510 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
511 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
512 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
513 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
515 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
516 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
517 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
518 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
519 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
520 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
521 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
522 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
523 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
525 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
526 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
527 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
528 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
529 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
531 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
532 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
533 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
534 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
535 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
537 o Code simplification and refactoring:
538 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
539 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
540 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
541 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
544 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
547 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
548 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
549 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
551 o Testing (CI, chutney):
552 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
553 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
557 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
558 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
559 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
562 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
563 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
564 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
565 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
566 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
567 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
568 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
570 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
571 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
574 o Minor features (testing):
575 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
576 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
577 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
578 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
579 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
580 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
581 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
582 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
583 fix for ticket 40337.
584 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
585 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
586 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
588 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
589 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
590 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
591 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
592 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
593 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
594 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
595 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
597 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
598 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
599 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
601 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
602 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
603 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
604 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
605 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
608 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
609 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
610 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
611 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
612 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
613 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
616 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
617 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
618 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
619 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
620 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
621 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
622 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
625 o Major feature (onion service v2):
626 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
627 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
628 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
629 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
631 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
632 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
633 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
634 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
636 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
637 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
638 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
639 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
641 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
642 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
645 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
646 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
647 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
648 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
649 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
651 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
652 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
653 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
654 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
655 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
656 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
657 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
658 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
659 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
660 fix for ticket 40337.
661 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
662 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
663 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
665 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
666 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
667 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
669 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
670 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
671 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
672 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
673 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
674 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
676 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
677 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
678 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
679 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
680 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
683 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
684 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
685 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
686 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
687 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
689 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
690 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
691 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
692 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
693 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
694 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
697 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
698 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
699 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
700 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
701 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
702 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
703 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
706 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
707 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
708 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
709 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
710 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
712 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
713 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
714 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
715 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
717 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
718 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
719 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
720 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
722 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
723 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
726 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
727 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
728 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
729 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
730 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
734 Changes in version 0.4.7.1-alpha - 2021-09-17
735 This version is the first alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series. One
736 major feature is Vanguards Lite, from proposal 333, to help mitigate
737 guard discovery attacks against onion services. It also includes
740 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
741 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
742 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
743 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
744 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
745 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
746 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
747 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
748 40363; implements proposal 333.
750 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
751 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
752 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
753 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
755 o Minor features (fuzzing):
756 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
757 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
758 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
760 o Minor features (testing configuration):
761 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
762 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
763 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
764 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
765 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
766 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
767 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
768 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
769 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
770 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
771 fix for ticket 40337.
772 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
773 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
774 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
776 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
777 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
778 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
779 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
781 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
782 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
783 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
784 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
785 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
788 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
789 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
790 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
791 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
792 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
794 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
795 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
796 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
797 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
799 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
800 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
801 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
802 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
804 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
805 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
806 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
807 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
808 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
809 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
811 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
812 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
813 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
814 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
816 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
817 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
818 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
821 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
822 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
824 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
825 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
828 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
829 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
830 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
831 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
832 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
834 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
835 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
836 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
837 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
838 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
839 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
840 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
841 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
843 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
844 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
846 o Minor features (geoip data):
847 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
848 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
850 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
851 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
852 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
855 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
856 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid
857 Address) for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix
860 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
861 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW
862 in order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug
863 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
865 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
866 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
867 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
868 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
869 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
870 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
871 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
874 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
875 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
876 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
877 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
878 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
880 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
881 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
882 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
883 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
884 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
885 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
886 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
887 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
889 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
890 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
892 o Minor features (geoip data):
893 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
894 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
896 o Minor features (testing):
897 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
898 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
901 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
902 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
903 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
906 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
907 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
908 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
910 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.7):
911 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
912 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
913 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
914 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
915 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
916 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
918 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.6):
919 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
920 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
923 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
924 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
925 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
926 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
927 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
929 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
930 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
931 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
932 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
933 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
934 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
935 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
936 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
938 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
939 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
941 o Minor features (geoip data):
942 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
943 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
945 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
946 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
947 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
950 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
951 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
952 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
955 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
956 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
957 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
958 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
959 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
961 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
962 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
963 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
964 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
965 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
966 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
968 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
969 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
970 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
974 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
975 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
976 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
977 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
978 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
980 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
981 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
982 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
983 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
984 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
985 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
986 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
988 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
989 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
990 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
991 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
992 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
993 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
994 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
995 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
997 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
998 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
999 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1000 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1001 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1002 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1003 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1004 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1005 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1006 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1007 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1008 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1009 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1010 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1011 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1013 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1014 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1015 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1016 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1019 o Minor features (geoip data):
1020 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1021 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1023 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1024 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1025 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1026 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1027 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1028 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1031 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1032 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1033 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1037 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
1038 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1039 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1040 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1041 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1043 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
1044 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
1045 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
1047 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1048 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1049 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1050 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1051 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1052 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1053 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1055 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1056 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1057 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1058 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1059 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1060 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1061 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1062 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1064 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1065 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1066 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1067 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1068 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1069 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1070 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1071 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1072 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1073 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1074 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1075 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1076 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1077 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1078 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1080 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1081 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1082 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1083 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1086 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1087 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1088 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1090 o Minor features (geoip data):
1091 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1092 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1094 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1095 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1096 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1097 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1099 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1100 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1101 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1104 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
1105 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
1106 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1107 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1108 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1110 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1111 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1112 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1113 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1114 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1115 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1116 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1118 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1119 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1120 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1121 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1122 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1123 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1124 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1125 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1127 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1128 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1129 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1130 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1131 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1132 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1133 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1134 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1135 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1136 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1137 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1138 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1139 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1140 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1141 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1143 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1144 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1145 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1147 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1148 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1149 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1150 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1153 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1154 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1155 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1157 o Minor features (geoip data):
1158 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1159 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1162 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
1163 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
1164 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
1165 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
1166 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
1169 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
1170 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
1171 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
1172 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1174 Below are the changes since 0.4.6.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
1175 since 0.4.5.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1177 o Major bugfixes (security):
1178 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1179 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1180 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1181 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1182 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1183 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1185 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
1186 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1187 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1188 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1189 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1190 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1191 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1192 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1194 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1195 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1196 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1197 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1198 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1199 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1200 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1201 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1202 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1203 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1204 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1205 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1206 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1207 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1208 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1210 o Minor features (geoip data):
1211 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1212 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1214 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
1215 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1216 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1217 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1218 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1221 Changes in version 0.4.6.4-rc - 2021-05-28
1222 Tor 0.4.6.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous releases. This, we hope,
1223 the final release candidate in its series: unless major new issues are
1224 found, the next release will be stable.
1226 o Minor features (compatibility):
1227 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1228 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1229 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1232 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
1233 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1234 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1235 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1236 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1238 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1239 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1240 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1241 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1242 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1243 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1246 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1247 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1248 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1252 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
1253 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
1254 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
1257 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
1258 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
1259 from the 0.4.6.x series.
1261 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1262 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
1263 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
1264 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
1265 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
1267 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1268 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
1269 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
1271 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1272 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1273 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1275 o Minor features (geoip data):
1276 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1277 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
1279 o Minor features (onion services):
1280 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
1281 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
1282 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
1284 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1285 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
1286 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
1287 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
1289 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1290 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
1291 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
1292 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1294 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1295 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1296 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1297 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1299 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1300 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1301 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1303 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
1304 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
1305 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
1306 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1308 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1309 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
1310 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
1311 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1313 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1314 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1315 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1319 Changes in version 0.4.6.3-rc - 2021-05-10
1320 Tor 0.4.6.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
1321 a few small bugs from previous versions, and adds a better error
1322 message when trying to use (no longer supported) v2 onion services.
1324 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
1325 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
1326 be fairly simple. There will likely be at least one more release
1327 candidate before 0.4.6.x is stable.
1329 o Major bugfixes (onion service, control port):
1330 - Make the ADD_ONION command properly configure client authorization.
1331 Before this fix, the created onion failed to add the client(s).
1332 Fixes bug 40378; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1334 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox):
1335 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
1336 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
1337 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
1338 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
1340 o Minor features (compilation):
1341 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
1342 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
1344 o Minor features (geoip data):
1345 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1346 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
1348 o Minor features (onion services):
1349 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
1350 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
1352 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation):
1353 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
1354 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
1355 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1357 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1358 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1359 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1361 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1362 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
1363 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1365 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak):
1366 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
1367 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
1368 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1371 Changes in version 0.4.6.2-alpha - 2021-04-15
1372 Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes several
1373 small bugs in previous releases, and solves other issues that had
1374 enabled denial-of-service attacks and affected integration with
1377 o Minor features (client):
1378 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
1379 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
1380 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
1381 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
1383 o Minor features (command line):
1384 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
1385 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
1388 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1389 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
1390 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
1391 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1393 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
1394 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1395 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1397 o Minor features (geoip data):
1398 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1399 retrieved on 2021/04/13.
1401 o Minor features (logging):
1402 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
1403 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
1406 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport):
1407 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
1408 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
1409 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
1411 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS):
1412 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1413 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1414 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1416 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1417 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
1418 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
1419 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1421 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1422 - Fix pattern-matching for directories on all platforms when using
1423 %include options in configuration files. This patch also fixes
1424 compilation on musl libc based systems. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix
1427 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1428 - Move the "overload-general" line from extrainfo to the server
1429 descriptor. Fixes bug 40364; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1431 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
1432 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1433 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1436 o Documentation (manual):
1437 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
1439 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
1440 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
1441 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
1442 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
1445 Changes in version 0.4.6.1-alpha - 2021-03-18
1446 Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.6.x series. It
1447 improves client circuit performance, adds missing features, and
1448 improves some of our DoS handling and statistics reporting. It also
1449 includes numerous smaller bugfixes.
1451 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.7. (Note that this release DOES
1452 include the fixes for the security bugs already fixed in 0.4.5.7.)
1454 o Major features (control port, onion services):
1455 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
1456 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
1457 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
1460 o Major features (directory authority):
1461 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
1462 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
1463 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
1464 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1466 o Major features (metrics):
1467 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
1468 documents. This information is controlled with the
1469 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
1470 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
1471 328; closes ticket 40222.
1473 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
1474 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
1475 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
1477 o Major features (statistics):
1478 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
1479 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
1480 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
1482 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
1483 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
1484 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
1485 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
1486 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
1487 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
1488 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
1489 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
1490 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
1491 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
1492 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
1493 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
1494 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
1495 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
1496 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
1497 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
1498 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1499 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
1500 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
1501 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
1504 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
1505 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
1506 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
1507 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1509 o Minor features (bridge):
1510 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1511 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1512 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1514 o Minor features (build system):
1515 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
1516 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
1517 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1519 o Minor features (command-line interface):
1520 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
1521 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
1522 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
1523 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
1524 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
1525 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
1526 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
1527 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
1528 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
1529 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1531 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
1532 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
1533 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1535 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1536 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
1537 control over whether the client can become dormant from
1538 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1540 o Minor features (logging):
1541 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
1542 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
1543 any). Closes ticket 40308.
1544 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
1545 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
1546 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1548 o Minor features (performance, windows):
1549 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
1550 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
1551 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
1552 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1554 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1555 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
1556 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
1558 o Minor features (tests, portability):
1559 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
1560 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
1563 o Minor features (vote document):
1564 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
1565 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
1566 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
1568 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1569 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
1570 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
1571 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1573 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1574 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
1575 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
1576 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
1579 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1580 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
1581 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
1582 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1584 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
1585 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
1586 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
1587 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
1588 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
1589 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
1591 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1592 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
1593 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
1594 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
1595 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1597 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
1598 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
1599 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
1600 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
1601 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1603 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
1604 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
1605 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
1606 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1608 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1609 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1610 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
1611 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1613 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1614 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
1615 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
1616 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1619 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
1620 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
1621 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
1622 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
1623 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
1624 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
1625 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
1628 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
1629 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
1630 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
1632 o Removed features (relay):
1633 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
1634 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
1635 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
1636 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
1637 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
1640 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
1641 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1642 in earlier versions of Tor.
1644 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1645 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1646 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1647 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1648 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1649 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1650 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1651 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1652 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1655 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1656 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1659 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1660 compatibility issue.
1662 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1663 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1664 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1665 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1666 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1667 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1668 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1669 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1670 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1673 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1674 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1675 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1676 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1677 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1678 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1679 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1680 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1683 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1684 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1685 Closes ticket 40309.
1688 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
1689 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1690 in earlier versions of Tor.
1692 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1693 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1694 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1695 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1696 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1697 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1698 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1699 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1700 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1703 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1704 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1707 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1708 compatibility issue.
1710 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1711 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1712 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1713 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1714 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1715 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1716 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1717 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1718 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1721 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1722 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1723 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1724 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1725 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1726 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1727 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1728 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1731 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1732 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1733 Closes ticket 40309.
1736 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
1737 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
1740 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1741 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1742 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1743 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1744 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1745 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1746 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1747 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1748 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1751 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1752 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1755 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
1756 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
1758 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1759 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1760 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1761 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1762 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1763 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1764 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1765 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1766 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1769 o Minor features (geoip data):
1770 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1771 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1772 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1773 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1774 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1775 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1776 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1779 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1780 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
1781 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
1782 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
1783 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
1785 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1786 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
1787 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1789 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
1790 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
1791 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
1792 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
1793 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1795 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1796 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
1797 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1799 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1800 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
1801 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1803 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1804 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
1805 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1807 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1808 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
1809 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1810 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
1811 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
1812 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
1813 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
1814 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
1816 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
1817 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1818 Closes ticket 40309.
1821 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
1822 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
1823 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
1824 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
1825 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
1826 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
1827 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
1828 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
1829 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
1830 welcoming approach to growing our community.
1832 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
1833 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
1834 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
1835 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
1836 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
1837 smaller features and bugfixes.
1839 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
1840 since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1842 o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
1843 - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if
1844 an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug
1845 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1847 o Minor features (protocol versions):
1848 - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version.
1849 Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in
1850 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop
1851 listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list.
1852 Closes ticket 40221.
1854 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1855 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
1856 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
1857 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
1858 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
1859 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1861 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1862 - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly
1863 closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
1865 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1866 - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor
1867 is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support
1868 the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a
1869 pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1871 o Minor bugfixes (relay, config):
1872 - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the
1873 internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing
1874 the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple
1875 ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix
1879 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
1880 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1881 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1882 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1883 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1885 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1886 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1887 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1888 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1889 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1892 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1893 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1894 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1895 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1898 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1899 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1900 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1901 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1903 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1904 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1905 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1906 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1907 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1909 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1910 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1911 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1912 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1913 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1914 weasel for diagnosing this.
1916 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1917 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1918 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1919 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1920 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1921 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1922 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1924 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1925 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1926 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1927 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1929 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1930 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1931 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1932 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1934 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
1935 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
1936 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
1937 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1938 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1939 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1940 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1942 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1943 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1946 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
1947 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1948 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1949 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1950 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1952 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
1953 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
1955 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1956 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1957 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1958 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1959 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1962 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1963 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1964 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1965 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1966 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1968 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1969 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1970 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1971 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1974 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1975 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1976 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1977 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1979 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1980 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1981 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1982 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1983 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1985 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1986 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1987 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1988 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1989 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1990 weasel for diagnosing this.
1992 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1993 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1994 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1995 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1996 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1997 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1998 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2000 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2001 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2002 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2004 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2005 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2006 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2007 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2009 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2010 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2011 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2012 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2014 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2015 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2016 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2017 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2018 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2019 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2020 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2022 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2023 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2026 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
2027 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2028 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2029 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2030 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2032 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2033 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2034 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2035 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2036 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2039 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2040 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2041 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2042 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2043 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2045 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2046 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2047 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2048 should help mitigate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2051 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2052 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2053 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2054 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2056 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2057 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2058 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2059 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2060 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2062 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2063 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2064 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2065 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2066 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2067 weasel for diagnosing this.
2069 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2070 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2071 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2072 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2073 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2074 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2075 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2077 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2078 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2079 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2081 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2082 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2083 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2084 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2086 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2087 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2088 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2089 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2091 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2092 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2093 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2094 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2096 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2097 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2100 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01
2101 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're
2102 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release
2103 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates
2104 an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
2106 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable
2107 release, though of course that could change.
2109 o Major feature (exit):
2110 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2111 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2112 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2115 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration):
2116 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort
2117 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix
2121 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22
2122 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes
2123 several bugs present in previous releases.
2125 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the
2126 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found.
2128 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6):
2129 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be
2130 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2132 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
2133 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
2134 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
2135 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
2136 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2138 o Minor feature (build system):
2139 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2140 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2141 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2143 o Minor features (authority, logging):
2144 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
2145 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
2146 Closes ticket 40245.
2147 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more
2148 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix
2151 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2152 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when
2153 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers.
2154 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc.
2155 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2156 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2157 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2159 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
2160 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a
2161 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would
2162 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but
2163 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix
2166 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2167 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
2168 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
2169 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2171 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2172 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having
2173 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231;
2174 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2177 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12
2178 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2179 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older
2180 ARM CPUs, and another that made v3 onion services less reliable.
2182 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
2183 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
2184 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate
2185 before 0.4.5.x is stable.
2187 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
2188 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2189 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2190 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2191 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2194 o Minor features (crypto):
2195 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2196 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2197 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2198 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2199 weasel for diagnosing this.
2201 o Minor features (documentation):
2202 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
2203 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
2204 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
2206 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2207 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2208 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2209 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2210 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
2211 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
2214 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
2215 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin
2216 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously,
2217 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for
2218 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2220 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
2221 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none
2222 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix
2224 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call
2225 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY"
2226 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2228 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics):
2229 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo
2230 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading
2231 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the
2232 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix
2235 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5):
2236 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2237 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2238 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2241 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23
2242 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
2243 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that
2244 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small
2245 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange
2246 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions
2249 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
2250 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
2251 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
2252 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
2253 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
2254 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
2255 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2257 o Minor features (compilation):
2258 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2259 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2260 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2261 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2263 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2264 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
2265 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
2266 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
2267 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
2269 o Minor features (safety):
2270 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
2271 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
2274 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
2275 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
2276 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
2277 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
2278 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
2279 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2281 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2282 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a.
2283 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of
2284 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2285 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177;
2286 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2287 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't
2288 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs.
2289 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2291 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2292 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
2293 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
2294 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
2295 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
2296 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
2298 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of
2299 ports, when it should have been only checked against other
2300 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored.
2301 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2302 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex:
2303 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration
2304 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2306 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
2307 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
2308 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
2309 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2311 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2312 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
2313 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
2315 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
2316 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
2317 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2319 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery):
2320 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found.
2321 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2322 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit,
2323 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is
2324 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes
2325 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2327 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2328 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2329 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2330 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2331 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that
2332 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated,
2333 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix
2335 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2336 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2337 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2339 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2340 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2342 o Removed features (controller):
2343 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
2344 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
2347 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
2348 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
2349 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2350 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
2351 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
2352 intended for a different relay.
2354 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2355 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2356 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2357 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2358 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2359 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2360 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2362 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2363 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
2364 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
2365 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
2366 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
2367 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
2368 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
2369 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
2370 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
2371 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
2372 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
2374 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2375 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2376 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2377 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2378 closes ticket 40133.
2380 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2381 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2382 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2384 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2385 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2386 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2388 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2389 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
2390 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
2391 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2392 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2393 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2395 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2396 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2397 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2399 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2400 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2401 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2404 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2405 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2406 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2407 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2410 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
2411 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2412 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2413 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2414 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2416 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
2417 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
2418 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
2421 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2422 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2423 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2424 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2426 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2427 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2428 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2429 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2430 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2431 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2432 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2434 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2435 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2436 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2437 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2438 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2441 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2442 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2443 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2444 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2445 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2446 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2448 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2449 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2450 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2451 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2452 closes ticket 40133.
2454 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2455 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2456 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2457 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2459 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2460 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2461 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2463 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2464 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2465 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2467 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2468 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2469 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2470 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2471 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2473 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2474 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2475 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2477 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2478 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2479 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2480 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2481 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2482 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2483 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2485 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2486 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2487 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2490 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2491 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2492 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2493 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2494 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2495 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2498 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2499 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2500 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2501 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2503 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2504 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2505 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2506 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2508 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2509 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2510 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2512 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2513 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2516 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2517 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2518 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2519 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2520 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2521 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2522 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
2525 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
2526 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2527 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2528 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2529 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2531 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2532 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2533 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2534 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2536 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2537 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2538 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2539 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2540 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2541 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2542 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2544 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2545 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2546 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2547 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2548 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2551 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2552 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2553 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2554 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2555 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2556 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2558 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2559 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2560 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2561 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2563 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2564 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2565 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2566 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2567 closes ticket 40133.
2569 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2570 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2571 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2572 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2574 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2575 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2576 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2578 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2579 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2580 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2582 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2583 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2584 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2585 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2586 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2588 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2589 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2590 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2592 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2593 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2594 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2595 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2596 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2597 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2598 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2600 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2601 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2602 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2605 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2606 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2607 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2608 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2609 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2610 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2613 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2614 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2615 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2616 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2618 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2619 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2620 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2621 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2623 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2624 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2625 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2627 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2628 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2632 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
2633 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
2634 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
2635 metrics and tracing.
2637 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2638 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2639 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
2640 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
2641 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
2642 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
2643 series soon, after it has had some testing.
2645 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
2647 o Major features (build):
2648 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
2649 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
2650 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
2651 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
2652 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
2654 o Major features (metrics):
2655 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
2656 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
2657 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
2658 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
2659 information and security considerations.
2660 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
2661 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
2662 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
2663 Closes ticket 33233.
2664 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
2665 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
2666 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
2667 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
2668 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
2669 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
2670 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
2671 use. Closes ticket 33220.
2672 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
2673 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
2674 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
2675 Closes ticket 34067.
2677 o Major features (tracing):
2678 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
2679 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
2680 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
2681 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
2682 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
2684 o Major bugfixes (security):
2685 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2686 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2687 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2688 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2689 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2690 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2692 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
2693 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
2694 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
2695 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
2696 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
2697 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
2699 o Minor features (address discovery):
2700 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
2701 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
2702 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
2703 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
2705 o Minor features (admin tools):
2706 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
2707 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
2708 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
2711 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2712 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
2713 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
2714 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
2715 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
2716 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
2718 o Minor features (build):
2719 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
2720 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
2721 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
2722 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
2723 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
2725 o Minor features (configuration):
2726 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
2727 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2728 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
2729 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
2730 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
2731 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2733 o Minor features (control port):
2734 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
2735 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
2736 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
2737 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
2739 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
2740 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
2741 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
2744 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
2745 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
2746 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
2747 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
2748 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
2749 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
2750 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2752 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2753 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
2754 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
2755 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
2756 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
2757 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
2758 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
2759 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
2760 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
2762 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2763 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
2764 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2765 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
2766 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
2767 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
2768 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
2769 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
2770 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
2771 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
2772 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
2773 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
2774 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
2775 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
2776 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
2778 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
2779 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
2780 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
2781 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
2783 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
2784 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
2785 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
2786 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2788 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2789 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
2790 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
2792 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
2793 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
2794 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2796 o Minor features (logging):
2797 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
2798 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
2799 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
2800 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
2801 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
2802 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
2804 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
2805 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
2806 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
2807 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
2809 o Minor features (onion services):
2810 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
2811 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
2812 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2814 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2815 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
2816 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
2817 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
2818 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
2819 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
2821 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
2822 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
2823 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
2824 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
2825 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
2826 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
2827 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
2829 o Minor features (relay):
2830 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
2831 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
2832 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
2833 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
2834 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
2835 Closes ticket 34137.
2837 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
2838 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
2839 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
2842 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
2843 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
2844 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
2845 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
2846 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
2847 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
2848 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
2849 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
2850 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
2852 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
2853 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
2855 o Minor features (specification update):
2856 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
2857 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
2858 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
2860 o Minor features (state management):
2861 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
2862 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
2863 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
2864 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
2865 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
2867 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
2868 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
2869 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
2870 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
2871 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
2873 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
2874 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2875 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2876 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2877 closes ticket 40133.
2878 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
2879 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
2881 o Minor features (testing configuration):
2882 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
2883 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
2884 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
2885 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
2887 o Minor features (testing):
2888 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
2889 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2891 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
2892 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2893 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2895 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2896 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2897 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2899 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2900 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
2901 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
2902 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
2904 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
2905 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
2906 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2907 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
2908 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
2909 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
2910 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
2911 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
2912 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2914 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
2915 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2916 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2917 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2918 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2919 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2920 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2922 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2923 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
2924 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
2925 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2926 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2927 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2929 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2930 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
2931 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
2932 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
2935 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2936 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
2937 when a stream is attached with the purpose
2938 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
2939 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2941 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2942 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2943 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2944 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
2945 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
2946 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
2947 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
2948 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
2951 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
2952 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2953 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2956 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
2957 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
2958 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
2959 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2960 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
2961 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
2962 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2964 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
2965 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
2966 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
2967 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
2968 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
2969 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2971 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
2972 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
2973 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2975 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
2976 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
2977 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2978 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
2979 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
2980 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
2981 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
2982 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2984 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
2985 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2986 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2987 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2989 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2990 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
2991 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
2992 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
2993 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
2994 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
2995 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
2996 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
2997 Closes ticket 34200.
2998 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
2999 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
3000 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
3001 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
3002 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
3003 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
3004 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
3006 - Split implementation of several command line options from
3007 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
3008 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
3009 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
3010 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
3011 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
3014 o Deprecated features:
3015 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
3016 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
3017 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
3020 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
3021 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
3024 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
3025 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
3026 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
3027 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
3029 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
3030 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
3032 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
3033 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
3034 directory. Closes part of 40139.
3035 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
3036 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
3040 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
3041 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3043 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
3044 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
3045 31699; Patch by @bduszel
3047 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
3048 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
3049 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
3050 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
3051 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
3053 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
3054 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
3055 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
3056 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
3057 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
3059 o Documentation (manual page):
3060 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
3061 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
3062 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
3063 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
3065 o Documentation (tracing):
3066 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
3067 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
3070 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3071 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3072 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3073 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3074 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3075 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3076 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3078 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3079 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3080 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3081 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3082 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3084 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3085 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3086 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3088 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3089 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3091 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3092 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3093 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3094 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3095 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3096 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3098 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3099 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3100 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3101 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3102 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3104 o Minor features (control port):
3105 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3106 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3107 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3109 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3110 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3111 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3112 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3113 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
3114 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
3116 o Minor features (tests):
3117 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3118 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3119 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3121 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
3122 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
3123 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3125 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3126 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3127 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3128 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3131 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
3132 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
3133 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
3136 o Major features (fallback directory list):
3137 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3138 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3139 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3141 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
3142 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3143 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3144 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3145 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3148 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3149 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3150 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3151 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3152 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3154 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3155 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3156 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3157 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
3160 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
3161 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3162 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3163 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3164 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3165 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3169 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
3170 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
3171 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
3174 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3175 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3176 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3177 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3178 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3179 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
3182 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
3183 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
3184 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
3186 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3187 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3188 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3189 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3190 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3191 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3192 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3195 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3196 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3197 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3198 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3201 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3202 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3203 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3204 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3205 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3206 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3208 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3209 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3210 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3211 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3212 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3213 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3215 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3216 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3217 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3219 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3220 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3221 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3222 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3225 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3226 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3227 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3228 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3231 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3232 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3233 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3234 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3235 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3237 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3238 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3239 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3241 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3242 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3243 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3244 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3245 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3248 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3249 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3250 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3251 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3252 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3253 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3255 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3256 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3257 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3258 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3260 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3261 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3262 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3263 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3266 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3267 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3268 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3269 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3270 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3271 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3272 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3273 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3277 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
3278 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
3279 several that affect usability and portability.
3281 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3282 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3283 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3284 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3285 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3286 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3287 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3290 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3291 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3292 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3293 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3296 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3297 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3298 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3299 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3300 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3301 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3303 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
3304 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3305 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3306 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3307 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3309 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3310 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3311 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3312 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3314 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3315 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3316 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3317 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3318 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3319 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3321 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3322 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3323 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3325 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3326 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3327 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3328 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3331 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3332 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3333 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3334 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3337 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3338 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3339 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3340 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3341 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3342 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3345 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3346 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3347 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3349 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3350 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3351 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3352 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3354 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3355 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3356 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3357 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3358 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3361 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3362 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3363 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3364 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3365 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3366 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3368 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
3369 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3370 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3371 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3372 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3374 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3375 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3376 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3377 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3379 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3380 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3381 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3382 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3384 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3385 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3386 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3387 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3390 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3391 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3392 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3393 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3394 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3395 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3396 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3397 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3401 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
3402 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
3403 some affecting usability.
3405 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3406 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3407 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3408 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3409 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3410 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3411 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3414 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3415 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3416 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3417 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3420 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3421 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3422 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3424 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3425 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3426 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3427 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3430 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3431 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3432 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3434 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3435 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
3436 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
3437 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3439 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3440 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3441 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3442 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3444 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3445 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
3446 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3448 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3449 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
3450 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
3451 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
3452 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3454 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3455 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
3456 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
3458 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3459 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3460 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3461 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3463 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3464 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
3468 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
3469 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
3470 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
3471 compatibility, and portability issues.
3473 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3474 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3475 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3476 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3477 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3478 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3479 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3482 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
3483 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3484 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3485 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3488 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3489 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
3490 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
3491 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
3492 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
3495 o Minor features (directory authority):
3496 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
3497 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
3498 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
3499 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
3500 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
3502 o Minor features (entry guards):
3503 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
3504 Closes ticket 40001.
3506 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
3507 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
3508 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
3509 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
3510 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
3511 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
3512 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
3514 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
3515 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3516 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3518 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
3519 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
3520 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3522 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
3523 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
3524 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
3527 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
3528 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3529 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3531 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
3532 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
3533 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
3534 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3536 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3537 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3538 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3539 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3541 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3542 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
3543 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
3546 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
3547 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3550 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
3551 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
3552 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
3553 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
3554 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
3555 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
3556 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
3557 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3560 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
3561 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
3562 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
3563 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
3564 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
3565 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3567 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
3569 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
3570 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
3571 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
3572 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
3573 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
3574 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
3575 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
3576 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
3577 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
3578 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
3580 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
3581 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
3582 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
3583 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
3584 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
3585 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
3586 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
3588 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
3590 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
3591 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
3592 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
3593 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
3595 o Major features (v3 onion services):
3596 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
3597 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
3598 Closes ticket 32709.
3600 o Minor feature (developer tools):
3601 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
3602 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
3604 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
3605 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
3606 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
3607 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
3610 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
3611 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
3612 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3614 o Minor feature (python scripts):
3615 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
3616 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
3617 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
3618 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
3620 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
3621 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
3622 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
3623 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
3624 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
3626 o Minor features (code safety):
3627 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
3628 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
3629 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
3630 Resolves issue 33788.
3632 o Minor features (compilation size):
3633 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
3634 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
3636 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3637 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
3638 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
3639 Resolves ticket 32143.
3641 o Minor features (control port):
3642 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
3643 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
3644 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
3645 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3647 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3648 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
3649 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
3650 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
3651 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
3652 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
3654 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
3655 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
3656 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
3657 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
3659 o Minor features (directory):
3660 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
3661 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
3662 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
3665 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
3666 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
3667 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
3669 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
3670 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
3671 Closes ticket 33901.
3673 o Minor features (logging):
3674 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
3675 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
3677 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
3678 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
3679 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
3680 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
3681 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
3682 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
3683 up from ticket 33316.
3685 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
3686 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
3687 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
3688 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3690 o Minor features (windows):
3691 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
3692 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
3694 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
3695 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
3696 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
3697 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
3698 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3700 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
3701 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
3702 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
3703 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
3705 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
3706 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3707 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3708 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3711 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3712 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
3713 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
3714 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
3715 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
3716 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3718 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3719 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
3720 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
3721 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3723 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
3724 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
3725 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
3726 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
3727 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3729 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
3730 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
3731 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3733 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
3734 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
3735 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
3736 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
3737 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
3738 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3739 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
3740 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
3741 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
3742 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3744 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
3745 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
3746 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
3747 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3749 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
3750 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
3751 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
3752 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
3753 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3755 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
3756 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
3757 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3759 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
3760 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
3761 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3763 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
3764 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
3765 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3767 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
3768 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
3769 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3772 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
3773 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
3774 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3776 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3777 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
3778 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
3780 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
3781 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
3782 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
3785 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
3786 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3787 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3788 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3790 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3791 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
3792 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
3793 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
3794 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3795 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
3796 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
3797 isolated in subsystems of their own.
3798 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
3799 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
3800 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
3801 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
3803 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
3804 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3805 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
3806 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
3810 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
3811 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
3812 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3813 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
3817 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
3818 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
3819 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
3820 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
3821 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3822 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
3823 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
3826 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
3827 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
3828 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
3829 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
3830 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
3831 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3832 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
3833 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
3835 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
3836 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3838 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3839 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3840 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3841 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
3842 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
3843 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
3844 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
3845 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
3846 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
3847 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
3848 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3849 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3851 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
3852 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
3853 code. Closes ticket 33014.
3855 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
3856 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
3857 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
3859 o Documentation (manual page):
3860 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
3861 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3862 Google Season of Docs.
3863 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
3864 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
3865 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
3866 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3867 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
3868 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
3869 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
3870 Closes ticket 33778.
3873 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
3874 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
3875 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
3876 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
3877 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
3878 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
3881 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3882 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3883 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3884 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
3885 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
3887 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
3888 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
3889 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
3892 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
3893 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
3895 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
3896 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3897 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3898 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3899 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3900 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3903 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3904 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
3905 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3906 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
3907 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
3908 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
3912 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
3913 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
3914 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
3915 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
3917 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
3918 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3919 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3920 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3921 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3922 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3924 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
3925 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3926 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3927 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3928 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3930 o Minor features (testing):
3931 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3932 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3933 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3934 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3935 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3937 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
3938 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
3939 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
3940 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3942 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
3943 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
3944 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
3945 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3947 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3948 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
3949 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
3950 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
3952 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
3953 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
3954 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
3955 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
3956 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3957 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
3958 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
3959 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
3960 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
3961 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
3962 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3964 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
3965 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3966 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3967 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3968 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3969 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3971 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3972 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3973 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3974 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3975 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
3976 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
3979 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3980 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
3981 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
3982 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
3983 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3984 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
3985 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
3986 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
3988 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3989 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
3990 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
3993 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
3994 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
3995 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
3996 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
3997 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4001 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4002 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4003 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4004 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4005 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4006 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4007 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4011 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
4012 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
4013 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
4014 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4015 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4016 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4017 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4018 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4019 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4020 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4021 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4024 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4025 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4026 as soon as packages are available.
4028 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
4029 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4030 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4031 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4032 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4033 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4034 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4035 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4036 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4038 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
4039 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4040 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4041 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4042 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4044 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4045 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4046 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4047 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4048 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4050 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4051 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4052 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4053 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4055 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4056 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4057 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4058 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4060 o Minor features (usability):
4061 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4062 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4063 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4065 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4066 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4067 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4068 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4071 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
4072 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
4073 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
4074 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
4075 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4077 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4078 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4081 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4082 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4083 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4084 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4087 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4088 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4089 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4090 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4093 o Documentation (manpage):
4094 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4095 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4096 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4097 Google Season of Docs.
4098 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4099 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4101 o Testing (Travis CI):
4102 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4103 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4104 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4106 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4107 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4108 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4109 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4110 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4113 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4114 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4115 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4116 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4117 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4118 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4119 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4120 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4121 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4122 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4123 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4124 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4126 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4127 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4128 as soon as packages are available.
4130 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4131 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4132 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4133 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4134 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4135 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4136 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4137 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4138 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4140 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4141 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4142 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4143 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4144 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4146 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4147 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4148 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4149 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4150 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4152 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4153 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4154 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4155 Closes ticket 33075.
4157 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4158 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4159 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4161 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4162 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4163 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4164 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4165 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4168 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4169 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4170 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4171 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4174 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4175 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4176 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4177 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4179 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4180 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4181 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4182 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4184 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4185 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4186 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4187 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4188 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4191 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
4192 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
4193 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
4194 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
4195 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
4196 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
4197 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
4198 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
4199 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
4200 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
4201 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
4202 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4204 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4205 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4206 as soon as packages are available.
4208 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4209 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4210 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4211 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4212 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4213 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4214 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4215 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4216 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4218 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4219 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4220 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4221 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4222 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4224 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4225 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4226 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4228 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4229 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4230 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4231 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4232 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4235 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4236 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4237 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4238 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4241 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4242 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4243 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4244 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4246 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4247 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4248 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4249 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4251 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4252 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4253 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4254 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4255 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4258 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
4259 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
4260 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
4261 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4262 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4263 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4264 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4265 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4266 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4267 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4268 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4271 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4272 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4273 as soon as packages are available.
4275 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4276 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4277 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4278 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4279 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4280 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4281 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4282 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4283 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4285 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4286 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4287 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4288 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4289 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
4290 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4291 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4292 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4295 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4296 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4297 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4298 Closes ticket 33075.
4300 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4301 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4302 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4304 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4305 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4306 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4307 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4308 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4310 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4311 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4312 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4313 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4314 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4317 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4318 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4319 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4320 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4323 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4324 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4325 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4326 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4328 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4329 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4330 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4331 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4332 Closes ticket 32629.
4333 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4334 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4335 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4337 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4338 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4340 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4341 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4342 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4343 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4345 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4346 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4347 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4348 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4351 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
4352 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
4353 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
4354 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
4357 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
4358 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
4359 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
4360 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4362 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4363 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
4364 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
4365 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
4367 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4368 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
4369 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
4370 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4371 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4372 Closes ticket 33075.
4374 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4375 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
4376 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4378 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4379 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
4380 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4381 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
4383 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4384 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4385 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4387 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4388 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4389 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4390 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4391 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4393 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4394 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4395 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4396 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4398 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
4399 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
4400 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
4401 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4403 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
4404 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
4405 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
4406 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
4409 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4410 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
4411 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
4412 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4414 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
4415 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4416 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4417 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4419 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
4420 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
4421 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
4422 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
4423 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
4425 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
4426 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
4427 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
4429 o Documentation (manpage):
4430 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
4431 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
4432 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4435 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
4436 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4437 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
4438 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
4439 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
4440 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
4442 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4443 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4444 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4445 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4446 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4447 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4448 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4449 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4451 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4452 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4453 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4455 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4456 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
4457 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
4458 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4460 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4461 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
4462 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
4463 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4465 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4466 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
4467 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
4468 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4469 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
4470 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
4473 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4474 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4475 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4477 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4478 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4479 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4480 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4481 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4482 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4483 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4484 Closes ticket 32629.
4486 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4487 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4490 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
4491 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
4492 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
4493 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
4494 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
4495 current version of 0.4.1.x.
4497 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4498 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4499 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4500 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4501 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4502 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4503 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4504 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4506 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4507 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4508 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4510 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
4511 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4512 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4513 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4514 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4516 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4517 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4518 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4520 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4521 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4522 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4523 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4524 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4525 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4526 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4527 Closes ticket 32629.
4529 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4530 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4533 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
4534 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
4535 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
4536 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
4537 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
4538 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
4539 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
4540 write better code in the future.
4542 o New system requirements:
4543 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
4544 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
4545 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
4547 o Major features (build system):
4548 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
4549 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
4550 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
4551 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
4552 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
4554 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
4555 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
4556 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
4557 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
4558 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4560 o Major features (onion service, controller):
4561 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
4562 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
4563 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
4564 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
4566 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
4567 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
4568 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
4569 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
4571 o Major features (proxy):
4572 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
4573 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
4574 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
4575 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
4576 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
4577 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
4579 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
4580 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4581 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4582 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4583 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4584 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4585 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4586 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4588 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4589 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4590 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4592 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4593 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
4594 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
4595 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4597 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
4598 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
4599 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
4600 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
4601 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
4602 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4604 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
4605 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
4606 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
4608 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
4609 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
4610 message. Closes ticket 31371.
4612 o Minor features (configuration validation):
4613 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
4614 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
4615 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
4616 Closes ticket 31241.
4618 o Minor features (configuration):
4619 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
4620 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
4622 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
4623 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
4624 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
4625 Implements ticket 32404.
4627 o Minor features (controller):
4628 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
4629 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
4630 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
4632 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
4633 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
4634 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
4635 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
4637 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4638 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
4639 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
4642 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4643 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
4644 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
4645 Closes ticket 32772.
4647 o Minor features (developer tools):
4648 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
4649 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
4650 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
4651 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
4652 target. Closes ticket 31919.
4653 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
4654 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
4655 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
4657 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
4658 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
4659 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
4660 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
4662 o Minor features (Doxygen):
4663 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
4664 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
4665 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
4667 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
4668 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
4669 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
4670 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
4671 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
4672 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
4673 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
4674 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
4676 o Minor features (git scripts):
4677 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
4678 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
4679 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
4680 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
4681 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
4682 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
4683 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
4684 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
4685 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
4686 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
4687 Closes ticket 32216.
4688 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
4689 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
4690 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
4691 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
4693 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
4694 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
4695 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
4696 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
4697 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
4698 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
4700 o Minor features (portability, android):
4701 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
4702 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
4703 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4705 o Minor features (relay modularity):
4706 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
4707 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
4708 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4709 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4710 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
4711 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
4712 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4714 o Minor features (relay):
4715 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
4716 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
4718 o Minor features (release tools):
4719 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
4720 Closes ticket 32704.
4722 o Minor features (testing):
4723 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
4724 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
4725 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
4726 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
4727 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
4728 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
4731 o Minor features (tests, Android):
4732 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
4733 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
4734 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4736 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
4737 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4738 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4740 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4741 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
4742 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4744 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
4745 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
4746 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
4747 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4749 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4750 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
4751 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4752 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
4753 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
4754 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
4755 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
4756 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
4757 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
4758 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
4759 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4760 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
4761 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
4762 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
4763 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4765 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4766 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
4767 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
4770 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
4771 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
4772 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
4773 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4775 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
4776 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
4777 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4779 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
4780 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
4781 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
4782 Closes ticket 32213.
4783 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4784 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
4785 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4787 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4788 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4789 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4790 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4791 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4794 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4795 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
4797 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
4798 Closes ticket 32216.
4800 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
4801 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
4802 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
4803 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
4806 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
4807 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
4808 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
4809 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4811 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
4812 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
4813 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
4814 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
4815 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
4818 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
4819 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
4820 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
4821 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
4822 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
4823 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4825 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4826 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
4827 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
4828 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
4829 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4831 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
4832 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
4833 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4835 o Minor bugfixes (test):
4836 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
4837 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
4838 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
4841 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4842 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
4843 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4844 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
4845 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
4846 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4847 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
4848 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
4851 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
4852 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
4853 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
4854 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
4855 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
4856 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4858 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
4859 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4860 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4862 o Deprecated features:
4863 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
4864 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
4865 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
4869 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
4870 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
4871 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
4872 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
4873 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
4874 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
4875 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
4876 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
4878 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
4879 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
4882 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
4883 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
4884 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
4885 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
4886 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
4887 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
4889 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
4890 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
4891 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
4892 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
4893 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
4896 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
4897 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
4899 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
4900 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
4901 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
4902 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
4903 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4904 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4905 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4906 Closes ticket 32629.
4907 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
4909 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4910 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4911 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4913 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
4914 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
4915 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
4917 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
4918 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
4919 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
4920 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
4921 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
4922 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
4923 Solves part of ticket 32339.
4924 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
4925 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
4926 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
4927 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
4928 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
4929 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
4930 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
4931 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
4932 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
4933 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
4935 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
4936 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
4938 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
4939 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
4940 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
4942 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4943 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
4944 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
4945 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
4946 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
4947 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
4949 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
4950 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
4951 Closes ticket 32163.
4952 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
4954 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
4956 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4957 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
4958 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
4959 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
4960 Closes ticket 32304.
4961 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
4962 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
4963 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
4964 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
4965 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
4968 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
4969 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4971 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4974 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
4975 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
4976 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
4977 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4978 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
4979 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
4980 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
4981 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4983 o Documentation (manpage):
4984 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4986 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4988 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
4989 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
4990 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
4992 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
4993 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
4994 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4996 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
4997 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
5000 o Testing (continuous integration):
5001 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5004 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
5005 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
5006 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
5007 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
5008 bugs present in previous series.
5010 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5011 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5012 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5013 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5015 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5016 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5017 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5018 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5020 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
5021 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5023 o Minor features (geoip):
5024 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5025 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5028 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5029 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5030 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5031 Closes ticket 32500.
5034 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5035 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5036 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5037 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5039 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5040 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5041 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5042 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5044 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5045 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5046 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5047 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5049 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5050 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5051 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5052 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5053 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5054 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5055 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5056 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5058 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5059 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5060 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5061 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5062 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5064 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5065 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5066 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5067 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5068 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5071 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5072 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5073 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5074 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5076 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5077 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5078 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5080 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5081 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5082 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5084 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5085 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5086 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5087 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5088 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5089 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5091 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5092 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5093 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5094 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5096 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5097 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5098 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5099 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5100 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5101 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5102 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5103 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5104 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5105 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5108 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5109 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5110 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5111 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5112 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5113 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5114 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5115 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5116 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5118 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5119 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5120 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5121 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5123 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5124 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5125 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5126 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5127 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5130 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5131 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5132 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5134 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5135 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5136 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5138 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5139 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5140 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5142 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5143 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5144 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5145 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5147 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5148 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5149 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5150 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5151 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5153 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5154 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5155 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5157 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5158 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5159 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5162 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5163 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5164 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5166 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5167 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5168 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5169 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5171 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5172 Closes ticket 31859.
5173 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5174 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5176 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5177 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5178 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5179 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5180 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5181 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5182 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5183 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5184 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5185 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5187 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5188 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5189 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5190 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5191 Closes ticket 32500.
5194 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
5195 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
5196 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
5197 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
5198 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5200 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
5201 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
5202 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
5203 support until 1 Feb 2022.
5205 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5206 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5209 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5210 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5211 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5212 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5213 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5214 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5215 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5216 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5217 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5218 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5219 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5221 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5222 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5223 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5224 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5225 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5226 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5228 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5229 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5230 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5231 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5232 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5235 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5236 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5237 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5238 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5239 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5241 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5242 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5243 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5244 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5247 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5248 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5249 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5250 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5251 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5252 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5253 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5254 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5256 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5257 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5258 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5259 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5260 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5262 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5263 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5264 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5265 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5266 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5269 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5270 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5271 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5273 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5274 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5275 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5278 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5279 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5280 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5282 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5283 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5284 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5285 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5287 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5288 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5289 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5290 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5291 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5293 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5294 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5295 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5297 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5298 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5299 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5302 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5303 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5304 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5306 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5307 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5308 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5310 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5311 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5312 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5314 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5315 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5316 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5319 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5320 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5321 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5322 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5323 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5324 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5326 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5327 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5328 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5329 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5330 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5332 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5333 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5334 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5337 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5338 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5339 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5341 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5342 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5343 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5344 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5346 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5347 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5348 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5349 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5351 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5352 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5353 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5354 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5356 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5357 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5358 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5359 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5361 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5362 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5363 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5364 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5365 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5366 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5367 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5369 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5370 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5371 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5372 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5374 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5375 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5376 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5377 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5379 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5380 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5381 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5384 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5385 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5386 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5387 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5388 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5389 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5390 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5392 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5393 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5394 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5395 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5398 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5399 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5400 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5401 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5402 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5404 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5405 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5406 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5407 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5408 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5410 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5411 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5412 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5415 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5416 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5417 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5418 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5419 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5421 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5422 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5423 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5424 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5426 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5427 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5428 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5429 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5430 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5433 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5434 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5435 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5438 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5439 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5440 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5441 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5443 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5444 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
5445 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
5446 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
5448 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5449 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5450 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
5451 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5453 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5454 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5455 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5456 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5459 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5460 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5461 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5462 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5463 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5464 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5467 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5468 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5469 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5471 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5472 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5473 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5475 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5476 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5477 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5478 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5480 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5481 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5482 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5484 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5485 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5486 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5487 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5488 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5490 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5491 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5492 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5495 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5496 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5497 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5498 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5499 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5500 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5501 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5502 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5503 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5504 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5506 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5507 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5508 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5509 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5511 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5512 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5513 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5514 Resolves issue 29702.
5516 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5517 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5519 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5520 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5521 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5522 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5525 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5526 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5527 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5528 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5530 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5531 Closes ticket 31859.
5532 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5533 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5535 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5536 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5537 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5538 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5539 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5540 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5541 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5542 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5543 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5544 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5546 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5547 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5548 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5549 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5550 Closes ticket 32500.
5552 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
5553 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
5554 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
5557 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5558 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5561 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5562 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5563 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5564 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5565 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5566 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5567 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5568 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5569 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5570 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5571 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5573 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5574 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5575 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5576 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5577 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5578 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5580 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5581 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5582 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5583 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5584 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5585 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5587 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5588 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5589 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5590 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5591 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5594 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5595 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5596 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5597 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5598 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5600 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5601 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5602 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5603 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5606 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5607 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5608 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5609 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5610 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5612 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5613 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5614 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5615 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5616 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5619 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5620 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5621 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5622 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5623 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5624 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5625 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5626 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5628 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5629 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5630 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5631 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5632 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5635 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5636 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5637 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5639 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5640 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5641 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5644 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5645 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5646 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5647 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5649 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5650 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5651 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5654 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5655 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5656 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5658 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5659 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5660 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5661 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5663 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5664 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5665 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5666 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5667 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5669 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5670 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5671 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5673 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5674 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5675 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5676 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5678 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5679 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5680 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5683 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5684 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5685 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5686 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5687 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5688 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5689 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5690 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5691 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5692 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5693 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5694 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5695 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5698 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5699 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5700 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5701 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5702 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5704 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5705 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5706 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5708 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5709 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5710 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5712 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5713 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5714 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5716 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5717 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5718 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5721 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5722 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5723 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5725 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5726 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5727 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5728 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5729 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5730 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5732 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5733 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5734 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5735 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5736 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5738 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5739 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5740 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5743 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5744 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
5745 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5747 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5748 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5749 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5751 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5752 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5753 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5754 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5756 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5757 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5758 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5759 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5761 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5762 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5763 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5764 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5766 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5767 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5768 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5769 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5771 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5772 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5773 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5774 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5775 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5776 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5777 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5779 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5780 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5781 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5782 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5784 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5785 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5786 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5787 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5789 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5790 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5791 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5794 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5795 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5796 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5797 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5798 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5799 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5800 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5802 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5803 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5804 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5805 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5808 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5809 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5810 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5811 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5812 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5814 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5815 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
5816 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5818 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5819 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5820 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5821 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5822 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5823 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5824 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5825 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5826 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5827 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5828 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5830 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5831 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5832 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5833 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5834 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5836 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5837 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5838 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5841 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5842 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5843 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5844 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5845 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5847 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5848 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5849 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5850 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5852 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5853 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5854 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5855 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5856 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5859 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5860 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5861 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5864 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5865 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5866 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5867 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5869 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5870 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5871 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5872 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5874 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5875 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5876 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5878 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5879 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5880 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
5881 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5883 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5884 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5885 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5886 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5889 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5890 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5891 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5892 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5893 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5894 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5897 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5898 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5899 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5900 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5902 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5903 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5904 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5906 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5907 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5908 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5910 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5911 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5912 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5913 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5914 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5915 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5916 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5918 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5919 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5920 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
5923 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5924 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
5925 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
5926 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
5927 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
5928 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
5929 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
5930 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5932 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5933 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
5934 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
5935 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5936 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
5937 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
5940 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5941 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5942 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5943 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5944 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5946 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
5947 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
5948 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
5949 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
5950 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
5951 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
5952 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
5953 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5955 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5956 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5957 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5960 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5961 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5962 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5963 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5964 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5965 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5966 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5967 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5968 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5969 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5971 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5972 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
5973 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
5974 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
5975 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
5976 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5978 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5979 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5980 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5981 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5983 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5984 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5985 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5986 Resolves issue 29702.
5988 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5989 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5991 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5992 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5993 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5994 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5997 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5998 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5999 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6000 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6002 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6003 Closes ticket 31859.
6004 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6005 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6007 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6008 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6009 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6010 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6011 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6012 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6013 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6014 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6015 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6016 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6018 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6019 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6020 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6021 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6022 Closes ticket 32500.
6024 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
6025 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
6026 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
6027 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
6029 o Minor features (build system):
6030 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
6031 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
6033 o Minor features (geoip):
6034 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6035 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
6037 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
6038 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6039 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6040 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6041 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6042 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6044 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
6045 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
6046 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6048 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6049 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
6050 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6052 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
6053 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
6054 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
6055 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
6056 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6058 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
6059 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
6060 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
6061 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
6062 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6064 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
6065 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
6066 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6067 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
6068 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6070 o Testing (continuous integration):
6071 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6072 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6073 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6074 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6075 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6076 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6077 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6078 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6079 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6082 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
6083 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
6084 from earlier versions of Tor.
6086 o Major bugfixes (relay):
6087 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6088 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6089 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6090 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6091 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6092 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6093 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6095 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6096 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6097 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6098 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6099 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6102 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
6103 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
6104 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
6105 Closes ticket 29669.
6107 o Minor features (testing):
6108 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
6109 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
6110 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
6111 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
6113 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
6114 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6115 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6116 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6118 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6119 Closes ticket 31859.
6120 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6121 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6123 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
6124 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
6125 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6126 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
6128 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
6129 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6130 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
6131 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
6132 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6134 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
6135 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6136 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6137 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6139 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
6140 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
6141 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
6143 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
6144 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6145 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6146 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6147 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6150 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
6151 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6152 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6154 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6155 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6156 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6158 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6159 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
6160 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
6162 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6163 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6164 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6165 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6167 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
6168 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6169 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6172 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
6173 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
6174 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6175 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
6176 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
6178 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
6179 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
6180 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
6181 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6184 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
6185 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6186 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
6187 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
6188 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
6189 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
6192 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
6193 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
6194 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
6195 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
6197 o Major features (directory authorities):
6198 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
6199 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
6200 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
6202 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
6203 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
6204 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
6205 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6207 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
6208 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6209 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6210 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6211 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6213 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
6214 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
6215 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
6216 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
6217 Closes ticket 31779.
6219 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6220 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6221 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6222 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6224 o Minor features (geoip):
6225 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6226 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
6228 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
6229 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
6230 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
6231 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
6232 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
6233 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
6234 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
6236 o Minor features (onion services v3):
6237 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
6238 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
6241 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
6242 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
6243 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6245 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
6246 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
6247 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
6248 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
6250 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6251 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6252 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
6253 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6255 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6256 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
6257 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6258 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
6259 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6260 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6261 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6262 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6263 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6264 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
6265 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
6267 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
6268 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6269 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6270 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6272 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
6273 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
6274 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
6277 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
6278 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
6279 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
6281 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6282 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6283 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6284 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6286 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
6287 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
6288 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6290 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6291 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
6292 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
6293 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
6294 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
6295 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
6296 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
6298 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
6302 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
6303 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
6305 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
6306 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
6307 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
6308 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
6309 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
6310 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
6313 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
6314 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6315 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
6316 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
6319 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6320 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6321 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6322 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6323 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6324 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6325 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6326 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6327 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6329 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6330 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6331 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6334 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6335 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6336 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6338 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6339 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6340 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6341 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6342 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6344 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6345 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6346 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6348 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6349 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6350 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
6351 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6353 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6354 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6355 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6356 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6359 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6360 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6361 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6362 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6363 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6365 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6366 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6367 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6370 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6371 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6372 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6374 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6375 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6376 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6377 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6378 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6379 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6381 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6382 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6383 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6384 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6385 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6386 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6387 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6388 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6389 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6390 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6392 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6393 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6394 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6395 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6398 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
6399 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
6400 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
6401 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
6402 Tor's stability and ease of development.
6404 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
6405 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
6406 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
6407 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
6408 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
6409 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
6412 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6413 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6414 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
6415 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
6416 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
6417 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
6420 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
6421 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6422 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6423 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6424 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6425 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6426 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6427 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6428 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6430 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
6431 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
6432 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
6433 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
6434 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
6435 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
6436 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
6437 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
6438 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
6439 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
6440 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
6441 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
6442 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
6443 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
6444 files. Closes ticket 31175.
6446 o Minor features (build system):
6447 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
6448 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
6449 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
6451 o Minor features (compilation):
6452 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
6453 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
6454 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
6456 o Minor features (configuration):
6457 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
6458 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
6459 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
6460 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
6462 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6463 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
6464 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
6465 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
6467 o Minor features (debugging):
6468 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
6469 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
6470 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
6471 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
6473 o Minor features (git hooks):
6474 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
6475 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
6476 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
6477 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
6478 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
6480 o Minor features (git scripts):
6481 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
6482 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
6483 push. Closes ticket 31314.
6484 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
6485 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
6486 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
6487 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
6488 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
6489 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
6490 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
6491 Closes ticket 31314.
6492 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
6493 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
6494 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
6495 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
6496 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
6497 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
6498 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
6499 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
6500 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
6502 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
6503 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
6504 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
6507 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
6508 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
6509 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
6511 o Minor features (onion service v3):
6512 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
6513 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
6515 o Minor features (onion service):
6516 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
6517 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
6518 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
6519 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
6521 o Minor features (stem tests):
6522 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6523 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6526 o Minor features (testing):
6527 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
6528 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
6529 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
6530 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
6531 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
6532 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
6533 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
6534 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
6535 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
6536 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
6537 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
6539 o Minor features (token bucket):
6540 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
6541 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
6543 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
6544 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
6545 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
6546 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6547 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
6548 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
6549 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
6550 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
6553 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
6554 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6555 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6557 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
6558 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
6559 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
6560 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
6561 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
6562 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
6564 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6565 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6566 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6567 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6568 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6570 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6571 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6572 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6574 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
6575 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
6576 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
6577 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
6579 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
6580 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
6581 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
6582 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
6583 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
6584 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
6585 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
6586 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
6587 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
6588 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6590 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
6591 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
6592 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
6595 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
6596 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
6597 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6599 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
6600 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6601 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6602 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6603 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6604 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6605 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6606 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
6607 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
6608 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
6611 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
6612 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6613 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6614 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6617 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
6618 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
6619 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
6620 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6622 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
6623 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
6624 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
6625 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6626 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
6627 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6628 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
6629 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
6630 Closes ticket 31678.
6632 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
6633 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6634 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6635 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6636 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6638 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
6639 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
6640 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
6641 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
6642 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6643 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
6644 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
6645 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
6646 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
6649 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6650 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6651 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6653 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
6654 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
6655 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
6657 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
6658 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
6659 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
6662 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
6663 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
6664 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
6665 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
6666 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
6667 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
6669 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
6670 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
6671 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
6672 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
6675 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
6676 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
6677 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
6678 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
6679 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6681 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6682 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
6683 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
6684 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
6685 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
6686 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6688 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
6689 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
6690 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
6691 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6693 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6694 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6695 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6696 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
6697 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6699 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
6700 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
6701 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
6702 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6704 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
6705 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
6706 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
6707 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
6708 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6710 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
6711 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
6712 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
6713 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
6714 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
6717 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6718 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
6719 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
6722 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
6723 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6724 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6725 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6726 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6727 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6729 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
6730 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6731 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6732 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6733 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6734 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6735 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6736 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6737 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6738 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6741 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
6742 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
6743 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
6744 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
6745 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6746 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6747 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6750 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
6751 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
6752 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
6753 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
6754 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
6755 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
6757 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
6761 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
6762 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
6763 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
6764 Closes ticket 30967.
6766 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
6767 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
6768 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
6769 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
6770 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
6771 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
6772 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
6773 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
6774 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
6775 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
6776 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
6777 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
6778 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
6779 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
6780 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
6781 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
6783 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
6784 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
6785 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
6786 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
6787 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
6788 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
6789 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
6790 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
6791 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
6792 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
6794 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
6795 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
6796 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
6798 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
6799 Closes ticket 30806.
6800 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
6801 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
6804 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
6805 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
6806 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
6808 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
6809 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
6810 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6813 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
6814 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
6815 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
6816 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
6817 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
6818 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
6819 bugfixes on earlier versions.
6821 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
6822 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
6823 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6824 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6826 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
6827 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6829 o Directory authority changes:
6830 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6833 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
6834 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
6835 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
6836 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
6838 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
6839 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
6840 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
6841 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
6842 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
6843 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
6844 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6846 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
6847 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
6848 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
6849 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6851 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
6852 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6853 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6854 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6855 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6857 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
6858 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
6859 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
6860 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
6861 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
6862 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6864 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
6865 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6866 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6869 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6870 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6871 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6873 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
6874 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
6875 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
6878 o Testing (continuous integration):
6879 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6880 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6881 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6885 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
6886 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
6887 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
6888 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
6890 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6891 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6892 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6893 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6894 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6895 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6897 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6898 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6899 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6901 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6902 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6903 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6904 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6905 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6907 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
6908 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6909 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6911 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
6912 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
6913 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6915 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
6916 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6917 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6918 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6920 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6921 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
6922 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
6925 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6926 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
6927 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
6930 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6931 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
6932 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
6936 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
6937 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
6938 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
6940 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
6941 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6942 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6943 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6944 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6947 o Minor features (geoip):
6948 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6949 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
6951 o Minor features (logging):
6952 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
6953 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
6954 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
6955 Closes ticket 30686.
6957 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
6958 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6959 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6961 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6962 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6963 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6964 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6965 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6966 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6967 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6969 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
6970 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6971 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6972 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6974 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6975 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
6976 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
6977 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
6978 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6981 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
6982 Closes ticket 30630.
6985 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
6986 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
6987 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
6988 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
6989 SENDME implementation.
6991 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
6992 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6993 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6994 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6995 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6996 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6997 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6998 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6999 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
7000 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
7001 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7003 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
7004 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
7005 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
7006 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
7007 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
7008 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7010 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
7011 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
7012 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
7013 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
7014 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7017 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
7018 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
7019 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
7020 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
7021 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
7022 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
7025 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7026 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
7027 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
7030 o Minor features (maintenance):
7031 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
7032 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
7033 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
7035 o Minor features (testing):
7036 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
7037 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
7038 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
7039 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
7041 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
7042 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
7043 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
7045 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
7046 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
7047 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
7048 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7050 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7051 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
7052 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
7054 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
7055 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
7058 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7059 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
7060 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
7063 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
7064 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
7065 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
7068 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
7069 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
7070 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
7071 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
7073 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
7074 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
7075 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
7076 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
7079 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7080 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
7081 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
7082 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
7083 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
7084 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
7087 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
7088 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
7089 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
7090 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
7091 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
7092 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7094 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
7095 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
7096 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
7097 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
7100 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7101 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7102 Resolves issue 29702.
7105 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
7106 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
7107 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
7108 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
7109 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
7110 performance in several areas.
7112 o Major features (circuit padding):
7113 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
7114 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
7115 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
7116 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
7117 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
7118 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
7119 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
7120 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
7121 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
7123 o Major features (code organization):
7124 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
7125 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
7126 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
7127 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
7130 o Major features (controller protocol):
7131 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
7132 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
7133 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
7134 Closes ticket 30091.
7136 o Major features (flow control):
7137 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
7138 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
7139 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
7140 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
7141 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
7142 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
7143 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
7145 o Major features (performance):
7146 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
7147 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
7148 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
7150 o Major features (performance, RNG):
7151 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
7152 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
7153 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
7154 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
7155 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
7156 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
7157 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
7158 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
7160 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
7161 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
7162 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
7163 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
7164 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
7166 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
7167 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
7168 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
7169 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
7172 o Minor features (circuit padding):
7173 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
7175 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
7176 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
7177 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
7178 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
7179 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7180 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
7181 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
7183 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
7184 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
7185 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
7187 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7188 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
7189 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
7191 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
7193 o Minor features (controller):
7194 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
7195 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
7196 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7198 o Minor features (debugging):
7199 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
7200 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
7201 can use format strings to include information for trouble
7202 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
7204 o Minor features (defense in depth):
7205 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
7206 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
7207 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
7208 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
7209 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
7210 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
7211 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
7212 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
7213 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
7215 o Minor features (developer tools):
7216 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
7217 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
7218 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
7219 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
7220 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
7222 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
7223 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
7225 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
7226 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
7228 o Minor features (geoip):
7229 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7230 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
7232 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
7233 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
7234 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
7236 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
7237 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
7238 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
7239 addresses. Implements 26992.
7241 o Minor features (modularity):
7242 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
7243 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
7245 o Minor features (performance):
7246 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
7247 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
7248 Closes ticket 28837.
7250 o Minor features (testing):
7251 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
7252 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
7253 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
7254 Implements ticket 29732.
7255 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
7256 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
7258 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
7259 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
7261 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
7262 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
7263 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
7264 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
7265 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7266 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7268 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
7269 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
7270 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
7271 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7273 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7274 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
7275 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7276 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
7277 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
7278 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
7279 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7280 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
7281 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
7282 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7283 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
7284 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7285 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7286 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
7287 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7288 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
7289 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
7290 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7292 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
7293 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
7294 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
7295 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7297 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7298 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
7299 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
7300 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
7301 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
7303 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
7304 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
7305 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7306 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7308 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7309 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
7310 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7311 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
7312 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
7313 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
7315 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
7316 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
7318 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7319 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
7320 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
7321 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
7322 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7323 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
7324 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
7327 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
7328 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
7329 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
7332 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7333 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
7334 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
7335 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7336 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
7337 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
7338 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
7339 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
7341 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
7342 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
7343 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7344 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
7345 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
7346 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
7347 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7349 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
7350 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
7351 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
7352 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
7353 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
7354 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7356 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7357 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
7358 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
7359 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
7360 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7362 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7363 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
7364 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7366 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
7367 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
7368 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
7371 o Minor bugfixes (python):
7372 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
7373 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
7374 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7376 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7377 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
7378 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
7379 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
7380 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7382 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7383 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
7384 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
7385 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
7386 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7388 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7389 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
7390 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
7391 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7392 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
7393 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7394 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
7395 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7396 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
7397 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
7398 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
7399 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
7400 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7402 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
7403 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
7404 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
7405 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
7406 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7408 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7409 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
7410 port. Implements ticket 30007.
7411 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
7412 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
7413 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
7414 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
7415 string to directory connection with or without compression.
7416 Resolves issue 28816.
7417 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
7418 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
7419 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
7420 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
7421 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
7422 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
7423 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
7424 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
7425 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
7426 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
7427 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
7428 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
7429 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
7430 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
7431 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
7432 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
7433 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7434 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
7435 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7436 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
7437 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
7438 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
7439 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
7440 Closes ticket 29894.
7441 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
7442 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
7443 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
7444 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
7447 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
7448 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
7452 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
7453 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
7454 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
7455 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
7458 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7459 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
7460 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
7461 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
7462 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
7463 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
7464 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
7465 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
7466 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
7467 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
7468 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
7471 o Testing (chutney):
7472 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
7473 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
7474 Closes ticket 27251.
7477 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
7478 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
7479 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
7480 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
7481 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
7482 long-term maintainability.
7484 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
7485 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
7486 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7487 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7489 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
7490 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7492 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7493 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
7494 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
7495 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
7497 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7498 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
7499 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
7502 o Minor features (testing):
7503 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
7504 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
7507 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7508 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
7509 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7511 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
7512 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
7513 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
7514 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7516 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7517 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
7518 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
7520 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
7521 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
7522 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7525 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
7526 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
7527 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
7528 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
7530 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
7531 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
7532 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
7533 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
7534 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
7535 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7537 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
7538 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
7539 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
7540 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
7541 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
7543 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
7544 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
7545 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
7548 o Minor features (circuit padding):
7549 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
7550 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
7551 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
7552 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
7555 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7556 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
7557 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
7560 o Minor features (dormant mode):
7561 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
7562 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
7563 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
7564 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
7565 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
7566 background. Closes ticket 29357.
7568 o Minor features (geoip):
7569 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7570 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
7572 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
7573 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
7574 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
7575 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
7577 o Minor bugfixes (security):
7578 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
7579 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
7580 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
7581 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
7582 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
7583 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
7584 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
7585 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
7587 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
7588 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
7589 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
7590 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7592 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
7593 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
7594 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
7595 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
7596 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
7598 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
7599 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
7600 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7602 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
7603 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
7604 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
7607 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7608 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
7609 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
7612 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
7613 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
7614 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7616 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7617 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
7618 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7620 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7621 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
7622 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
7623 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
7624 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
7625 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
7628 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7629 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
7630 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
7631 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
7632 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7634 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7635 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
7636 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
7637 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7638 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
7639 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
7642 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
7643 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
7644 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
7645 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
7646 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
7647 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
7648 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
7649 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7651 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7652 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
7653 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
7654 Resolves issue 28816.
7655 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
7656 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
7659 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
7660 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
7663 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
7664 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
7665 bugs from earlier versions.
7667 o Minor features (address selection):
7668 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
7669 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
7670 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
7671 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
7672 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
7673 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
7674 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7676 o Minor features (geoip):
7677 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7678 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
7680 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
7681 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7682 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
7683 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7685 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7686 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
7687 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
7688 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
7689 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7690 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
7691 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
7692 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
7693 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7694 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
7695 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7697 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7698 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
7699 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
7700 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7702 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
7703 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
7704 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7706 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7707 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
7708 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
7711 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
7712 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
7713 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7715 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
7716 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
7717 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
7718 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
7719 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
7720 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
7721 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
7723 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7724 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
7725 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
7728 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7729 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
7730 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
7731 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
7732 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
7733 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
7734 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
7735 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7736 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
7737 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7739 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
7740 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
7741 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
7742 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
7743 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
7744 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7747 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
7748 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
7749 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
7752 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7753 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7754 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7756 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7757 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7758 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7759 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7760 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7761 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7762 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7763 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7765 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7766 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7767 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7768 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7769 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7771 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7772 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7773 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7774 Patches from "Mangix".
7776 o Minor features (geoip):
7777 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7778 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7780 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7781 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7784 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7785 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7786 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7787 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7788 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7789 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7791 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7792 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7793 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7794 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7797 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7798 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7799 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7800 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7802 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7803 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7804 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7807 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7808 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7809 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7810 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7812 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7813 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7814 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7815 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7817 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7818 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7819 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7820 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7821 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7822 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7824 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7825 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7826 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7827 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7828 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7830 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7831 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7832 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7833 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7834 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7836 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7837 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7838 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7840 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7841 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7842 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7844 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7845 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7846 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7847 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7849 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7850 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7851 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7853 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7854 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7855 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7856 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7857 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7860 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7861 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7862 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7863 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7864 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7867 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
7868 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
7869 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
7870 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
7871 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7873 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7874 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7875 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7876 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7877 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7878 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7879 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7880 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7882 o Minor features (geoip):
7883 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7884 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7886 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7887 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7888 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7889 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7891 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7892 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7893 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7894 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7895 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7898 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
7899 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7900 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7901 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7903 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
7904 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
7905 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
7906 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
7908 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7909 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7910 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7911 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7912 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7913 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7914 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7915 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7917 o Minor features (geoip):
7918 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7919 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7921 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7922 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7923 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7924 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7926 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7927 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7928 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7929 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7930 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7933 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
7934 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
7935 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
7936 backward compatibility.
7938 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7939 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7940 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7942 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7943 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7944 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7945 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7946 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7947 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7948 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7949 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7951 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7952 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7953 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7954 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7955 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7957 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
7958 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
7959 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
7960 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
7961 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
7962 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
7963 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7965 o Minor features (compilation):
7966 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7967 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7968 Patches from "Mangix".
7970 o Minor features (developer tooling):
7971 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
7972 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
7973 release. Closes ticket 27761.
7974 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
7975 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
7976 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
7979 o Minor features (directory authority):
7980 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
7981 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
7982 Closes ticket 26698.
7984 o Minor features (geoip):
7985 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7986 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7988 o Minor features (testing):
7989 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7992 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
7993 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7994 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7995 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7997 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7998 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
7999 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8000 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
8001 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8003 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8004 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8005 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8006 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8008 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
8009 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
8010 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
8012 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8013 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
8014 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
8015 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8016 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8017 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8018 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8020 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
8021 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8022 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8023 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8024 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8026 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8027 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8028 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8030 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8031 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8032 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8034 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8035 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8036 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8037 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8039 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
8040 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
8041 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
8042 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
8043 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
8046 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
8047 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
8048 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8049 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
8050 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
8051 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
8052 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8053 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8054 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8055 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8056 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8060 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
8061 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
8062 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
8065 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
8068 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
8069 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
8070 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
8071 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
8072 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
8073 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
8076 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
8077 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
8078 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
8079 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
8080 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
8081 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
8083 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
8084 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
8086 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
8087 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
8090 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
8091 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
8092 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
8093 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
8094 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
8095 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
8096 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
8097 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
8098 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
8101 o Major features (circuit padding):
8102 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
8103 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
8104 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
8105 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
8106 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
8107 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
8108 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
8109 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
8112 o Major features (refactoring):
8113 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
8114 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
8115 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
8116 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
8119 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
8120 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
8121 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
8122 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
8123 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
8126 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8127 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
8130 o Minor features (controller):
8131 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
8132 Implements ticket 28843.
8134 o Minor features (developer tooling):
8135 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
8136 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
8137 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
8139 o Minor features (directory authority):
8140 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
8141 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
8142 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
8143 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
8146 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
8147 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
8148 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
8149 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
8150 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
8151 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
8152 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
8154 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
8155 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
8156 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
8158 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
8159 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
8160 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
8161 Closes ticket 28518.
8163 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
8164 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
8165 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
8166 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
8168 o Minor features (IPv6):
8169 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
8170 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
8171 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
8172 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
8173 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
8174 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8175 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
8176 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
8177 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
8178 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8180 o Minor features (log messages):
8181 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
8182 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
8185 o Minor features (memory usage):
8186 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
8187 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
8188 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
8189 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
8190 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
8192 o Minor features (parsing):
8193 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
8194 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
8195 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
8197 o Minor features (performance):
8198 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
8199 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
8200 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
8201 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
8203 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
8204 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
8205 Closes ticket 28852.
8206 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
8207 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
8208 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
8209 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
8210 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
8211 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
8213 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
8214 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
8215 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
8216 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
8217 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
8219 o Minor features (process management):
8220 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
8221 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
8222 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
8223 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
8224 module. Closes ticket 28847.
8226 o Minor features (relay):
8227 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
8228 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
8229 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
8231 o Minor features (required protocols):
8232 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
8233 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
8234 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
8235 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
8236 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
8237 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
8238 297; closes ticket 27735.
8240 o Minor features (testing):
8241 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
8242 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
8244 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
8245 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
8246 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
8247 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
8248 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8251 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8252 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8253 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8254 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8256 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
8257 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8258 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8260 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
8261 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
8262 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
8263 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8265 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
8266 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
8267 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
8268 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
8269 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
8271 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
8272 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
8273 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
8274 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
8275 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
8276 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
8277 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8279 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
8280 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8281 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8282 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8285 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8286 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8287 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8288 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8289 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8290 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8292 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
8293 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
8294 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
8295 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8297 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
8298 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8299 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8300 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8301 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8302 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8304 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
8305 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
8306 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
8307 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8309 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8310 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
8311 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
8312 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
8313 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8315 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
8316 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
8317 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
8318 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
8319 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8321 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
8322 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8323 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8324 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8325 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8327 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8328 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
8329 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
8330 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
8332 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
8333 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
8334 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
8335 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
8336 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
8337 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
8338 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
8339 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
8343 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
8344 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
8345 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
8346 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
8348 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
8351 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
8352 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
8353 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
8354 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
8355 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
8356 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
8357 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
8360 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
8362 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
8363 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
8365 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
8366 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
8367 code from client and service into one function. Closes
8370 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
8371 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
8373 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
8374 Resolves ticket 28006.
8375 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
8376 Resolves ticket 28012.
8377 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
8378 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
8379 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
8380 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
8384 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
8385 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8386 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
8387 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
8388 to this version, or to a later series.
8390 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
8391 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
8392 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
8393 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
8394 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
8395 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8397 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8398 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8399 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8400 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8401 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8404 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8405 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8406 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8407 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8409 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8410 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8411 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8412 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8413 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8414 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8415 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8416 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8418 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8419 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8420 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8421 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8423 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8424 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8425 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8426 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8427 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8429 o Minor features (geoip):
8430 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8431 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8433 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8434 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8435 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8436 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8437 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8438 Closes ticket 28973.
8440 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8441 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8442 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8443 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8445 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8446 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8447 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8450 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8451 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8452 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8454 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8455 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8456 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8457 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8459 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8460 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8461 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8462 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8464 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8465 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8466 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8467 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8468 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8469 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8472 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8473 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8474 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8477 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8478 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8479 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8480 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8481 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8483 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8484 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8485 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8486 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8487 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8489 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8490 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8491 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8492 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8493 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8494 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8496 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8497 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
8498 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
8501 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8502 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8503 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8505 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8506 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8507 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8509 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8510 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8511 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8514 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8515 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8516 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8517 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8518 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8519 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8520 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8521 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8523 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8524 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8525 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8526 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8528 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8529 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8530 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8531 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8532 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8533 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8534 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8535 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8536 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8537 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8539 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8540 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8541 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8542 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8543 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8544 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8546 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8547 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8548 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8549 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8550 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8552 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8553 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8554 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8557 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
8558 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8559 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
8560 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
8563 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
8564 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
8565 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
8568 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8569 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8570 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8571 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8572 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8575 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8576 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8577 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8578 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8579 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8580 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8581 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8583 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8584 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8585 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8588 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8589 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8590 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8591 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8592 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8595 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8596 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8597 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8598 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8599 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8601 o Minor features (geoip):
8602 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8603 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8605 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8606 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8607 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8608 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8609 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8610 Closes ticket 28973.
8612 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8613 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8614 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8615 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8617 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8618 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8619 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8620 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8621 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8624 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8625 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8626 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8627 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8629 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8630 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8631 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8633 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8634 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8635 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8636 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8638 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8639 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8640 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8641 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8642 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8643 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8646 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8647 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8648 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8650 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8651 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8652 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8653 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8654 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8656 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8657 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8658 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8659 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8660 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8661 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8663 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8664 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8665 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8666 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8668 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8669 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8670 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8673 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
8674 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8675 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
8676 affecting directory caches.
8678 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
8679 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
8680 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
8681 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
8682 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
8683 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
8684 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
8685 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
8687 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
8688 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
8689 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
8690 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
8691 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
8692 so it will recognize them.
8694 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
8695 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
8696 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
8697 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
8698 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
8699 with the latest stable release.)
8701 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
8702 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8704 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
8705 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8706 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8707 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8708 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8709 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8710 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8712 o Minor features (compilation):
8713 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
8714 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
8716 o Minor features (geoip):
8717 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8718 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8720 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
8721 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8722 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8723 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8724 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8725 Closes ticket 28973.
8727 o Minor features (performance):
8728 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
8729 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
8730 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
8731 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
8732 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
8733 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
8734 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
8735 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
8736 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
8737 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
8739 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8740 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
8741 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8743 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8744 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
8745 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
8746 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
8747 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8749 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8750 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
8751 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
8752 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8753 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
8754 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
8755 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8757 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
8758 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
8759 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
8761 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8762 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
8763 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
8767 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
8768 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
8769 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
8770 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
8772 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
8773 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8774 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8777 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8778 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8779 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8780 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8781 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8783 o Minor features (geoip):
8784 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8785 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
8787 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8788 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
8789 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8791 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8792 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8793 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8794 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8796 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8797 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8798 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8799 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8800 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8801 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8803 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
8804 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
8805 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
8808 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8809 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
8810 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
8811 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8812 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
8813 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8814 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8816 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
8817 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
8818 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
8819 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
8820 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
8821 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
8822 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
8823 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
8825 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
8826 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
8827 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
8828 reported by Keifer Bly.
8831 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
8832 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
8834 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
8835 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
8836 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
8837 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
8838 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
8839 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
8840 Closes ticket 19566.
8842 o Documentation (onion services):
8843 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
8844 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
8845 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
8846 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
8847 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
8848 process. Closes ticket 28275.
8851 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
8852 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
8853 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
8856 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
8857 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8858 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8859 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8860 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8863 o Minor features (geoip):
8864 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8865 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8867 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8868 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8869 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8870 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8872 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
8873 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8874 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8875 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8876 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8879 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8880 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8881 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8882 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8884 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8885 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8886 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8888 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8889 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
8890 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8892 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8893 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
8894 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
8897 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8898 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
8899 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
8902 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8903 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8904 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8906 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8907 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
8908 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
8909 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
8910 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
8911 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
8912 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
8913 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
8914 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
8915 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8918 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
8919 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
8920 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
8921 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
8922 acceptable long-term-support release.
8924 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
8925 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
8926 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
8927 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
8928 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
8929 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8931 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
8932 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
8933 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
8934 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
8935 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8937 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8938 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
8940 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
8941 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
8943 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
8944 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
8945 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
8947 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
8948 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8949 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8952 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8953 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
8954 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8956 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
8957 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
8958 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
8961 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8962 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
8963 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
8966 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
8967 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8968 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
8969 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8971 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8972 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
8973 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
8974 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
8977 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
8978 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
8979 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
8980 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8982 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8983 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
8984 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
8985 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
8986 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
8987 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
8988 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8990 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8991 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
8992 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
8995 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
8996 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
8999 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
9000 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
9001 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
9002 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
9003 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9005 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
9006 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9007 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9008 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9009 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9010 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9012 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
9013 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9014 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9015 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9016 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9018 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9019 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
9020 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9022 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
9023 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9024 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9025 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9026 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9028 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
9029 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
9030 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
9033 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
9034 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9035 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
9036 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9037 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
9039 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9040 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9041 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9043 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9044 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9045 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9046 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9047 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9049 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9050 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9051 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9052 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9053 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9056 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9057 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9058 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9059 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9061 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9062 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9063 Implements ticket 27252.
9064 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9065 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9066 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9067 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9068 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9069 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9070 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9072 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9073 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9074 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9075 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9077 o Minor features (geoip):
9078 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9079 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9081 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9082 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9083 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9084 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9085 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9087 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9088 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9089 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9090 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9091 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9094 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9095 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9096 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9099 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9100 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9101 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9102 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9103 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9105 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9106 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9107 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9109 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9110 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9111 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9113 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9114 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9115 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9116 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9118 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9119 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9120 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9122 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9123 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9124 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9127 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9128 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9129 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9131 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9132 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9133 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9136 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9137 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9138 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9139 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9140 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9142 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9143 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9144 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9145 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9146 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9147 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9149 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9150 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9151 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9154 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9155 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9156 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9157 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9158 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9159 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9160 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9161 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9163 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9164 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9165 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9166 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9168 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9169 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9170 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9171 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9172 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9174 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9175 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9176 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9177 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9178 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9179 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9181 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9182 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9183 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9184 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9185 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9186 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9188 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9189 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9190 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9191 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9194 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9195 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9196 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9197 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9198 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9201 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
9202 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
9203 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
9204 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
9205 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
9206 getting closer and closer to stability.
9208 o Major features (onion services):
9209 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
9210 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
9211 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
9212 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
9213 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
9215 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
9216 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9217 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9219 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
9220 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
9221 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
9222 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9224 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
9225 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9226 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9227 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9228 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9230 o Major bugfixes (relay):
9231 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9232 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9233 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9234 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9237 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9238 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9239 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9240 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9241 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
9242 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
9245 o Minor features (geoip):
9246 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9247 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9249 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
9250 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9251 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9254 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9255 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
9256 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
9257 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
9258 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
9259 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
9262 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
9263 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
9266 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
9267 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9268 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9269 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9270 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9272 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
9273 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9274 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9275 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9276 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9277 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9280 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9281 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
9282 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9284 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9285 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
9286 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
9288 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
9289 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
9290 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9292 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9293 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
9294 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
9296 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9297 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9298 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9299 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9300 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9301 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9302 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9303 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9304 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9306 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
9307 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9308 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9311 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9312 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9313 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9314 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9316 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
9317 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9319 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9320 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
9321 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
9322 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
9323 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
9324 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
9325 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
9326 Closes ticket 27814.
9327 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
9328 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
9329 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
9330 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
9331 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
9332 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
9335 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
9336 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
9337 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
9338 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
9341 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
9342 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
9343 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
9344 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
9346 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
9347 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
9348 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
9349 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
9350 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
9351 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
9353 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
9354 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
9355 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
9356 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
9357 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
9360 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
9361 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9362 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9363 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9364 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9366 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9367 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9368 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9369 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9370 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9373 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9374 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9375 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9376 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9377 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9379 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
9380 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
9381 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
9382 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
9384 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
9385 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
9386 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
9389 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
9390 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9391 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9392 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9394 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9395 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
9396 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
9397 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9399 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9400 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
9401 Closes ticket 27799.
9404 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
9405 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
9406 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
9407 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
9408 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
9410 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
9411 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
9412 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
9413 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
9414 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
9415 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
9417 o Major features (relay, UI change):
9418 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
9419 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
9420 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
9421 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
9422 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9423 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
9424 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
9426 o Major features (bootstrap):
9427 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
9428 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
9429 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
9430 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
9432 o Major features (new code layout):
9433 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
9434 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
9435 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
9436 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
9437 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
9438 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
9439 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
9441 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
9442 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
9443 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
9445 o Major features (onion services v3):
9446 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
9447 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
9448 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
9449 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
9450 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
9451 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
9452 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
9453 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
9454 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
9455 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
9456 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
9457 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
9458 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
9460 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
9461 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
9462 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
9463 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
9464 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
9465 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
9466 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
9468 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
9469 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
9470 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
9471 (if present), and restart Tor.
9473 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9474 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
9475 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
9476 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
9479 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
9480 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9481 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9482 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9484 o Minor features (admin tools):
9485 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
9486 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
9489 o Minor features (build):
9490 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
9491 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
9492 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
9493 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
9495 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
9496 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
9497 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
9498 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
9499 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
9501 o Minor features (code layout):
9502 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
9503 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
9504 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
9505 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
9508 o Minor features (compilation):
9509 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
9510 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
9511 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
9512 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
9515 o Minor features (config):
9516 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
9519 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9520 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9521 Implements ticket 27252.
9522 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9523 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9524 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9525 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9526 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9527 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9528 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9529 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9530 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9532 o Minor features (controller):
9533 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
9534 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
9535 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
9536 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
9537 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
9538 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
9539 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
9540 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
9542 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
9543 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
9544 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
9545 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
9547 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
9548 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
9549 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
9550 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9552 o Minor features (development):
9553 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
9554 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
9556 o Minor features (directory authority):
9557 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
9558 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
9559 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
9560 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
9562 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
9563 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
9566 o Minor features (embedding API):
9567 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
9568 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
9569 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
9570 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
9571 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
9572 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
9575 o Minor features (geoip):
9576 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9577 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
9579 o Minor features (memory management):
9580 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
9581 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
9584 o Minor features (memory usage):
9585 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
9586 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
9587 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
9589 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
9590 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
9591 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
9593 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
9594 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
9595 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
9596 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
9598 o Minor features (testing):
9599 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
9600 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
9602 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
9603 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
9604 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
9606 o Minor features (UI):
9607 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
9608 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
9609 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
9610 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
9611 Closes ticket 26703.
9613 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
9614 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
9615 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
9616 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9618 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9619 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
9620 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
9621 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
9622 - Use time_t for all values in
9623 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
9624 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
9625 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9627 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
9628 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
9629 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
9630 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
9631 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
9634 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
9635 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
9636 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
9637 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
9638 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
9639 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9641 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
9642 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
9643 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
9644 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
9646 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
9647 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
9648 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
9649 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
9650 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
9652 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9653 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9654 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9656 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9657 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
9658 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
9659 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
9660 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
9663 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
9664 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9665 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9667 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
9668 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9669 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9672 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
9673 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
9674 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
9675 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
9676 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9678 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9679 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
9680 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
9681 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
9682 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
9683 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
9684 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
9686 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
9687 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
9688 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
9689 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
9690 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9692 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
9693 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9694 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9696 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
9697 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
9698 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
9699 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
9702 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9703 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9704 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9707 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
9708 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
9709 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
9710 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
9711 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
9713 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
9714 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
9715 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
9716 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
9718 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9719 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9720 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9721 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9723 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
9724 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
9725 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
9726 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
9727 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
9728 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9729 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9730 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
9731 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
9732 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9734 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
9735 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9736 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9737 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9738 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9739 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9740 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9741 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9743 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9744 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
9745 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9746 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9747 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9748 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9749 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9750 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9751 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
9752 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
9753 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9754 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
9755 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9757 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9758 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
9759 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
9760 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
9761 directory within the top-level src directory.
9762 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
9763 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
9764 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
9765 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
9766 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
9767 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
9768 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
9769 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
9770 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
9771 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
9772 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
9773 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
9774 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
9775 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
9776 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
9777 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
9778 Closes ticket 21349.
9779 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
9780 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
9781 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
9782 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
9783 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
9784 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
9785 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
9787 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
9788 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
9789 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
9792 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
9793 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
9794 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
9795 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
9796 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
9799 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
9800 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
9801 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
9802 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
9803 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
9804 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
9805 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
9806 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
9807 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
9808 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
9809 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
9810 Closes ticket 26367.
9813 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
9814 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
9816 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9817 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9818 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9819 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9821 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9822 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9824 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9825 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9826 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9827 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9829 o Minor features (geoip):
9830 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9831 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9833 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9834 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9835 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9836 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9838 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9839 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9840 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9841 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9842 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9843 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9844 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9845 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9848 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9849 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9850 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9851 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9853 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9854 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9855 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9856 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9858 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9859 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9860 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9861 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9863 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9864 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9865 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9866 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9867 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9869 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9870 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9871 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9874 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9875 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9876 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9877 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9878 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9880 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9881 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9882 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9885 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9886 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9887 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9888 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9890 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9891 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9892 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9894 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9895 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9896 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9899 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9900 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9901 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9902 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9903 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9905 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9906 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9907 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9910 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
9911 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9913 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9914 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9915 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9916 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9918 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9919 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9921 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9922 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9923 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9924 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9926 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9927 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9930 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9931 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9932 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9933 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9935 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9936 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9937 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9938 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9940 o Minor features (geoip):
9941 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9942 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9944 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9945 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9946 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9947 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9948 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9949 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9950 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9952 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9953 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9954 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9955 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9956 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9957 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9958 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9959 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9962 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9963 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9964 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9965 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9967 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9968 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9969 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9970 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9972 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9973 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9974 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9975 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9976 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9978 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9979 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9980 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9981 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9982 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9984 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9985 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9986 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9989 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9990 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9991 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9992 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9993 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9995 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9996 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9997 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10000 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10001 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10002 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10005 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10006 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10007 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10010 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10011 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10013 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10014 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10015 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10016 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10018 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10019 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10020 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10021 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10023 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10024 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10025 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10027 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10028 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10029 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10030 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10031 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10032 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10033 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10036 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10037 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
10038 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
10039 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
10040 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10042 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10043 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10044 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10045 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10046 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10048 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10049 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10050 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10053 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
10054 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
10056 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10057 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
10058 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
10059 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
10061 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10062 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10063 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10064 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10066 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10067 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
10068 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10070 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10071 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10072 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10073 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10075 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10076 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10079 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10080 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10081 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10082 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10084 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10085 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10086 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10087 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10089 o Minor features (geoip):
10090 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10091 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10093 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10094 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10095 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10096 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10097 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10098 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10099 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10101 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10102 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10103 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10104 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10105 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10106 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10107 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10108 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10111 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10112 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10113 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10114 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10116 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10117 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10118 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10119 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10121 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10122 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10123 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10124 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10125 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10127 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10128 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10129 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10130 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10131 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10133 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10134 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10135 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10138 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10139 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10140 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10141 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10143 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10144 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10145 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10146 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10147 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10149 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10150 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10151 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10154 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10155 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10156 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10159 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10160 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10161 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10164 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10165 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10166 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10167 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10169 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10170 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10171 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10174 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10175 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10177 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10178 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10179 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10180 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10181 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10182 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10183 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10185 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10186 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10187 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10188 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10189 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10191 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10192 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10193 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10194 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10196 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10197 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10198 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10200 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10201 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10202 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10203 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10204 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10205 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10206 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10209 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10210 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10211 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10212 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10213 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10215 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10216 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
10217 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
10218 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
10219 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10221 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10222 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10223 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10226 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
10227 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
10228 compilation and portability fixes.
10230 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
10231 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
10232 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
10233 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
10234 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
10235 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
10236 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
10237 our anti-denial-of-service code.
10239 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
10240 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
10242 o Minor features (compatibility):
10243 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10244 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10245 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10247 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10248 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
10249 Implements ticket 27449.
10250 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
10251 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
10254 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10255 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10256 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10257 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10258 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10259 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10260 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10261 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10264 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10265 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
10266 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
10267 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
10268 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
10269 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10270 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10271 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10272 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10273 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10275 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10276 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10277 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10280 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
10281 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10282 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10283 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10284 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10285 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10286 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10289 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
10290 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
10291 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
10292 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
10293 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
10295 o Minor features (bug workaround):
10296 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
10297 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
10298 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
10300 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10301 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
10302 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10304 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10305 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10306 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
10307 Implements ticket 27275.
10308 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10309 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10311 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
10312 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10315 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10316 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10317 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10318 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10320 o Minor features (geoip):
10321 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10322 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10324 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
10325 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10326 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10327 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10329 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10330 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
10331 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
10332 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
10333 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10334 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10335 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10336 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10338 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
10339 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10340 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10341 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10343 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10344 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10345 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10346 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10347 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10349 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10350 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10351 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10354 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10355 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10356 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10359 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10360 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10362 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
10363 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10364 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10365 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10366 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10367 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10368 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10370 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10371 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10372 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10373 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10374 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10376 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
10377 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
10378 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
10379 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
10380 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10382 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10383 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10384 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10385 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10386 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10388 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
10389 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10390 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10393 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
10394 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
10395 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
10396 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
10397 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
10399 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
10400 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
10401 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
10402 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
10403 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
10404 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10406 o Minor features (compilation):
10407 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10408 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10410 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10411 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10412 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10413 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
10414 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
10415 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
10417 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10418 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10419 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10420 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10422 o Minor features (controller):
10423 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10424 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10425 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10427 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10428 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10429 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10432 o Minor features (geoip):
10433 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10434 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10436 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
10437 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
10439 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10440 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
10441 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
10442 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10443 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10444 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10445 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10447 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10448 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
10449 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10450 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
10451 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
10452 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10454 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
10455 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
10456 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
10459 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
10460 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10461 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10463 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10464 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10465 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10468 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10469 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
10470 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10471 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10472 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10473 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10475 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
10476 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
10477 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
10478 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10480 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10481 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10482 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10484 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
10485 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
10486 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
10487 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
10488 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
10489 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
10491 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
10492 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
10493 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
10494 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
10495 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10498 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
10499 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10500 bridge relays should upgrade.
10502 o Directory authority changes:
10503 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10504 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10505 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10508 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
10509 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10510 bridge relays should upgrade.
10512 o Directory authority changes:
10513 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10514 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10515 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10518 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
10519 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10520 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10523 o Directory authority changes:
10524 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10525 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10526 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10528 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10529 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10530 Closes ticket 26343.
10532 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10533 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10534 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10535 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10536 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10538 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10539 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10540 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10542 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10543 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10544 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10545 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10547 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10548 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10549 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10551 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10552 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10553 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10554 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10555 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10556 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10558 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10559 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10560 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10561 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10563 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10564 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10565 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10568 o Minor features (geoip):
10569 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10570 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10572 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10573 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10574 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10575 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10576 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10578 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10579 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10580 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10582 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10583 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10584 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10585 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10586 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10587 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10588 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10589 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10592 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10593 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10594 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10595 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10596 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10597 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10599 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10600 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10601 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10602 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10603 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10605 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10606 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10607 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10608 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10609 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10611 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10612 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10613 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10616 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10617 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10618 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10620 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10621 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10622 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10623 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10625 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10626 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10627 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10628 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10629 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10630 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10631 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10633 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10634 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10635 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10636 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10639 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10640 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10641 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10643 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10644 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10645 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10647 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10648 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10649 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10650 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10653 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10654 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10655 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10656 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10658 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10659 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10660 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10662 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10663 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10664 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10667 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
10668 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10669 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10672 o Directory authority changes:
10673 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10674 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10675 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10677 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10678 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10679 Closes ticket 26343.
10681 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10682 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10683 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10684 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10685 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10687 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10688 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10689 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10690 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10692 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10693 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10694 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10695 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10696 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10697 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10699 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10700 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10701 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10704 o Minor features (geoip):
10705 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10706 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10708 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10709 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10710 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10711 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10712 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10714 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10715 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10716 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10718 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10719 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10720 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10721 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10724 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10725 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10726 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10727 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10728 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10729 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10731 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10732 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10733 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10734 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10735 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10737 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10738 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10739 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10742 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10743 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10744 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10746 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10747 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10748 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10749 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10751 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10752 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10753 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10755 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10756 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10757 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10760 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
10761 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
10762 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
10763 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
10764 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
10766 o Minor features (compilation):
10767 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10768 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10771 o Minor features (geoip):
10772 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10773 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10775 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
10776 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
10778 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10779 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10780 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10781 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10782 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10784 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
10785 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
10786 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10787 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10788 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10789 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10791 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
10792 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
10793 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
10796 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
10797 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10798 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10800 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
10801 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10802 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10803 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10804 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10805 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10806 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10807 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10811 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
10812 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10813 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
10815 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10816 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10817 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10818 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10820 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10821 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10822 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10825 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10826 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10827 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10830 o Minor features (geoip):
10831 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10832 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10834 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10835 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10836 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10837 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10839 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10840 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
10841 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
10842 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
10843 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
10846 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10847 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10848 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10849 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10850 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10852 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10853 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10854 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10855 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10857 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10858 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10859 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10861 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10862 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10863 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10864 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10867 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10868 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
10869 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
10870 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10872 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10873 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10874 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10875 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10876 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10877 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10878 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10879 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10883 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
10884 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
10885 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
10887 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
10888 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10889 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10890 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10892 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
10893 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10894 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10897 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
10898 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
10899 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
10900 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
10902 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
10903 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10904 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10905 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10907 o Minor features (unit tests):
10908 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
10909 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
10910 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
10913 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10914 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
10915 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
10916 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10917 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
10918 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
10919 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10920 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
10921 Closes ticket 26245.
10923 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10924 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
10925 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
10926 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
10927 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
10928 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10930 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10931 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10932 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10933 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10936 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10937 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
10938 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10939 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
10940 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
10941 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
10942 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
10943 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
10944 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10945 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
10946 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
10947 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
10948 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
10949 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10952 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
10953 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10954 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
10956 o Directory authority changes:
10957 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10958 Closes ticket 26343.
10960 o Minor features (geoip):
10961 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10962 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
10964 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10965 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10966 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10967 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10968 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10969 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10971 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10972 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10973 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10975 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10976 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
10977 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
10978 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
10979 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10981 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10982 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10983 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10985 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10986 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10987 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10988 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10989 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10990 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10993 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
10994 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
10995 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
10997 o Directory authority changes:
10998 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10999 Closes ticket 26343.
11001 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
11002 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
11003 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
11004 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
11005 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
11007 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11008 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
11009 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
11010 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
11012 o Minor features (geoip):
11013 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11014 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
11016 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
11017 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11018 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11019 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11020 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11021 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11023 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11024 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11025 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11026 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
11027 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11028 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
11029 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
11030 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11032 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11033 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
11034 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
11035 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
11038 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11039 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
11040 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
11041 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
11042 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11044 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
11045 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11046 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11048 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11049 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
11050 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11052 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
11053 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
11054 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
11055 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
11059 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
11060 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
11061 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11063 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
11064 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
11065 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
11066 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
11067 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
11068 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
11070 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
11071 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11073 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11074 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11075 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11076 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11077 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11079 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
11080 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
11081 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
11082 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
11083 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
11085 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11086 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
11087 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
11088 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11090 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11091 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
11092 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
11093 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11095 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11096 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11097 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11099 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11100 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
11101 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
11104 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11105 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
11106 Closes ticket 26006.
11108 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11109 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11110 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11111 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11112 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11113 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11115 o Minor features (geoip):
11116 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
11117 database. Closes ticket 26104.
11119 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11120 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11121 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11124 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11125 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11126 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11127 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11128 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11130 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11131 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11132 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11133 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11134 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11137 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11138 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11139 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11141 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11142 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11143 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11144 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11145 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11146 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11147 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11149 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11150 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11151 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11153 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11154 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11155 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11158 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
11159 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
11160 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
11161 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
11162 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
11163 other small features and bugfixes.
11165 o New system requirements:
11166 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
11167 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
11168 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
11169 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
11171 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
11172 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
11173 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
11174 To disable the module, the configure option
11175 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
11176 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
11178 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
11179 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
11180 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
11181 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
11182 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
11183 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
11184 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
11185 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
11186 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
11187 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
11188 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
11190 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
11191 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
11192 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
11193 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
11194 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
11195 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
11196 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
11197 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
11198 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
11199 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
11200 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
11201 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
11202 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
11203 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
11204 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
11205 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
11206 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
11207 Tor's uptime (26009).
11209 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
11210 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11211 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11212 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11213 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11215 o Major bugfixes (crash):
11216 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
11217 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
11218 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11220 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
11221 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
11222 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
11223 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11225 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
11226 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11227 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11229 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
11230 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
11231 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
11232 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
11233 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
11234 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
11235 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
11236 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
11237 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
11238 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
11239 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
11240 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
11241 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
11242 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11244 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
11245 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
11246 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
11249 o Minor features (accounting):
11250 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
11251 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
11252 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
11253 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
11255 o Minor features (code quality):
11256 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
11257 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
11258 Closes ticket 25024.
11260 o Minor features (compatibility):
11261 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
11262 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
11263 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
11264 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
11265 Closes ticket 26006.
11267 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
11268 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
11269 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
11270 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
11271 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
11272 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
11274 o Minor features (configuration):
11275 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
11276 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
11277 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
11278 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
11279 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
11281 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11282 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11283 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11284 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11285 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11286 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11288 o Minor features (control port):
11289 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
11290 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
11291 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
11292 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11293 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
11294 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
11295 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
11296 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
11297 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
11298 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
11300 o Minor features (directory authority):
11301 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
11302 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
11303 Closes ticket 23909.
11305 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
11306 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
11307 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
11308 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
11310 o Minor features (entry guards):
11311 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
11312 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
11314 o Minor features (geoip):
11315 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
11316 database. Closes ticket 26104.
11318 o Minor features (performance):
11319 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
11320 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
11321 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
11322 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
11324 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
11325 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
11327 o Minor features (testing):
11328 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
11329 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
11330 more deterministic.
11331 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
11332 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
11333 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
11334 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
11335 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
11336 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
11338 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
11339 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
11340 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
11341 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
11342 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
11344 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
11345 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
11346 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
11347 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
11348 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
11349 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
11351 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
11352 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
11353 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
11354 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
11356 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
11357 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
11358 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
11359 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
11360 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
11363 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11364 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11365 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11368 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
11369 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
11370 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11371 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
11372 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
11374 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
11375 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
11376 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
11377 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
11378 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11380 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11381 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
11382 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
11383 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
11384 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11386 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
11387 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
11388 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
11389 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
11390 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11392 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
11393 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
11394 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11395 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
11396 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
11397 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
11400 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11401 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11402 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11403 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11404 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11407 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
11408 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
11409 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
11410 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
11411 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
11412 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
11413 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
11415 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11416 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11417 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11419 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
11420 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11421 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11422 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11423 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11424 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11425 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11427 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11428 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
11429 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
11430 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
11431 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
11432 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
11434 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11435 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
11436 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
11439 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
11440 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
11441 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
11442 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11444 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
11445 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
11446 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
11447 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
11448 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
11449 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
11450 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
11452 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
11453 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11454 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11456 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
11457 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
11458 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
11459 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11461 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11462 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
11463 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
11464 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
11465 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
11466 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11467 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
11468 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
11470 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
11471 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
11472 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11473 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
11474 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
11475 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
11476 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
11478 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
11479 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
11480 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
11481 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
11482 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
11484 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
11485 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
11486 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
11489 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
11490 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
11491 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
11492 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
11493 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
11494 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11496 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11497 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
11498 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
11499 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
11500 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
11501 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
11502 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
11503 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
11505 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
11506 confusing we renamed some functions and
11507 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
11508 router_should_check_reachability() and
11509 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
11510 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
11511 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
11512 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
11513 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
11515 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
11516 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
11518 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
11519 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
11520 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11521 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
11522 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
11523 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
11524 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
11525 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
11526 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
11527 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
11528 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
11529 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
11530 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
11531 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
11532 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
11533 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11534 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
11535 Closes ticket 25766.
11536 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
11537 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
11538 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
11539 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
11540 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
11541 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
11542 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
11543 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
11544 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
11545 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
11546 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11547 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
11548 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
11549 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
11551 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
11552 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
11553 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
11554 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
11555 before. Closes ticket 26016.
11556 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
11557 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
11558 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
11559 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
11561 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
11562 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
11563 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
11564 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11566 o Deprecated features:
11567 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
11568 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
11569 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
11570 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
11571 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
11572 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
11575 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11576 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11578 o Removed features:
11579 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
11580 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
11581 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
11582 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
11583 24378 and proposal 290.
11584 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
11585 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
11586 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
11587 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
11588 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
11589 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
11590 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
11591 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
11592 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
11593 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
11594 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
11595 their local router. Closes 25409.
11596 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
11597 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
11598 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
11599 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
11600 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
11601 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
11602 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
11603 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
11604 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
11605 Closes ticket 25268.
11608 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
11609 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
11610 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
11612 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
11613 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
11614 be nearly identical to this one.
11616 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
11617 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
11618 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
11619 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
11620 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
11621 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11623 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
11624 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
11625 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
11626 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
11627 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
11628 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
11629 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
11631 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
11632 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
11633 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
11635 o Minor features (config options):
11636 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
11637 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
11638 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
11641 o Minor features (geoip):
11642 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11643 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
11645 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11646 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
11647 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
11648 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
11649 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
11650 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
11652 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11653 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
11654 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
11655 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11657 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
11658 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
11659 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
11660 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11661 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
11662 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
11663 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11665 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11666 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11667 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11668 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11669 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11670 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
11671 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11673 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
11674 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
11675 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
11676 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
11677 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
11679 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11680 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
11681 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
11683 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
11684 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
11685 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
11687 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11688 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11689 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11691 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
11692 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
11693 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
11697 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
11698 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
11699 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
11700 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
11702 o New system requirements:
11703 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
11704 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
11706 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
11707 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
11708 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
11709 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
11710 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11712 o Minor features (geoip):
11713 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11714 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
11716 o Minor features (log messages):
11717 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
11718 information about memory usage from the different compression
11719 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
11721 o Minor features (sandbox):
11722 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11723 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11724 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11726 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
11727 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11728 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11729 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11731 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
11732 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
11733 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
11735 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11736 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
11737 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
11738 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11740 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
11741 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
11742 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
11743 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11745 o Major bugfixes (networking):
11746 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
11747 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
11748 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
11750 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
11751 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
11752 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
11754 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
11755 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
11756 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
11757 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
11758 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
11759 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11761 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11762 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11763 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11764 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11766 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
11767 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
11768 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
11769 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
11771 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
11772 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
11773 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
11774 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
11777 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
11778 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
11779 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
11780 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
11781 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11783 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11784 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
11785 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
11789 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
11791 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
11792 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
11795 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
11796 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
11799 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11800 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11802 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11803 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11805 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11808 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11809 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
11810 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11812 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
11813 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
11814 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
11815 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
11818 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11819 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11820 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11821 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11824 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11825 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11826 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11827 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11828 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11829 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11830 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11831 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11832 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11833 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11834 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11835 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11836 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11838 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11839 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11840 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11842 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11843 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11844 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11845 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11846 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11847 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11848 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11850 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11851 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11852 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11854 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11855 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11856 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11857 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11858 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11859 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11860 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11862 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11863 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11864 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11865 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11867 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11868 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11869 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11870 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11872 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11873 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11874 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11875 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11876 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11877 Closes ticket 24978.
11879 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11880 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11881 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11882 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11883 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11884 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11885 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11886 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11887 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11889 o Minor features (geoip):
11890 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11893 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11894 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11895 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11896 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11897 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11899 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11900 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11901 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11902 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11903 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11905 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11906 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11907 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11908 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11909 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11912 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11913 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11914 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11915 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11916 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11917 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11918 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11919 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11920 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11921 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11922 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11925 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
11926 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11927 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11929 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11930 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11931 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11934 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11935 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11936 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11937 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11938 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11939 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11940 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11942 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11943 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11944 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11945 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11946 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11947 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11948 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11949 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11950 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11953 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11954 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11955 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11956 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11957 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11958 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11960 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11961 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11962 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11963 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11965 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
11966 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11967 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11968 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11969 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11972 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11973 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11974 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11975 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11976 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11977 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11979 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11980 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11981 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11982 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11983 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11984 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11985 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11986 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11987 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11988 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11989 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11990 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11992 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11993 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11994 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11995 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11997 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11998 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11999 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12000 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12002 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12003 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12004 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12005 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12008 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
12009 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
12010 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
12011 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
12012 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
12014 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12015 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12017 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12018 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12020 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12021 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12022 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12025 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
12026 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12027 later Tor releases.
12029 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12030 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12032 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12033 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12035 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12038 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
12039 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
12040 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
12042 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12043 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12044 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12045 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12048 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
12049 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12050 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12051 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12052 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12053 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12054 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12055 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12056 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12057 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12058 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12059 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12060 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12062 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12063 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12064 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12065 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12066 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12067 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12068 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12069 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12070 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12072 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
12073 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12074 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12075 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12076 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12077 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12078 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12080 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
12081 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12082 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12083 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12085 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
12086 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12087 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12088 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12089 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12090 Closes ticket 24978.
12092 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
12093 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12094 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12095 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12097 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12098 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12099 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12100 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12101 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12102 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12103 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12104 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12105 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12107 o Minor features (geoip):
12108 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12111 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12112 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12113 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12115 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
12116 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12117 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12118 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12119 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12121 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
12122 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12123 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12124 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12125 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12127 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12128 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12129 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12130 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12131 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12134 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12135 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12136 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12138 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12139 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12140 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12143 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12144 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12145 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12146 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12147 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12148 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12149 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12151 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12152 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12153 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12154 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12155 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12158 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12159 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12160 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12161 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12162 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12163 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12165 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
12166 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12167 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12168 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12170 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12171 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12172 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12173 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12174 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12175 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12176 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12177 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12178 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12179 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12180 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12181 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12183 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
12184 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12185 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12186 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12189 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12190 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
12191 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
12192 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
12193 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
12195 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12196 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12198 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12199 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12202 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
12203 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
12204 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
12207 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12208 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12210 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
12211 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
12212 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
12213 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
12214 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
12215 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
12218 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12219 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12221 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12224 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
12225 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
12226 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
12227 the DoS mitigations.)
12229 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12230 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12231 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12232 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12235 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12236 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
12237 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
12238 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12240 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12241 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12242 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12243 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12244 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12245 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12246 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12247 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12248 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12249 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12250 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12251 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12252 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12254 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12255 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12256 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12257 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12258 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12259 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12260 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12261 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
12262 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
12263 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
12264 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12266 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12267 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
12268 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12270 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12271 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
12272 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
12273 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
12274 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
12275 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
12276 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12278 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12279 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
12280 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
12281 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12283 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12284 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12285 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12286 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12288 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12289 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12290 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12291 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12292 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12293 Closes ticket 24978.
12295 o Minor features (geoip):
12296 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12299 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12300 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
12301 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
12304 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12305 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12306 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12307 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12308 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12310 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12311 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12312 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12313 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12314 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12315 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12316 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12318 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12319 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12320 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12321 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12322 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12324 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12325 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
12326 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
12327 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12329 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12330 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
12331 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
12332 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
12333 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12335 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12336 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12337 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12338 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12340 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12341 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
12342 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
12343 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12345 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12346 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12347 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12348 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12350 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12351 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12353 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12354 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12356 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12357 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
12358 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
12360 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12361 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
12362 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
12363 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
12364 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12366 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12367 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12368 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12370 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
12371 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
12372 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
12376 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
12377 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
12378 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12379 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12381 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
12382 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
12383 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
12384 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
12385 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
12386 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12388 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12391 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
12392 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
12393 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
12394 the DoS mitigations.)
12396 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
12397 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12398 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12399 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12402 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
12403 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12404 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12405 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12406 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12407 Closes ticket 24978.
12409 o Minor features (logging):
12410 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
12411 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
12413 o Minor features (testing):
12414 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
12417 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
12418 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
12419 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
12420 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
12421 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
12422 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
12423 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
12425 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
12426 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
12427 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
12428 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12429 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
12430 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
12433 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
12434 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
12435 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
12436 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
12438 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12439 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
12440 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
12441 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
12442 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
12445 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
12446 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
12448 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
12449 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12451 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
12452 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
12453 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12454 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
12456 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12457 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12458 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12461 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
12462 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
12463 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
12464 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
12465 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
12466 it to older supported release series.
12468 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
12469 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12470 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12471 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12472 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12473 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12474 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12475 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12476 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12477 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12478 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12479 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12480 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12482 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
12483 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
12484 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
12485 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
12486 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
12487 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
12488 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
12489 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12491 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
12492 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
12493 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12495 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
12496 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
12497 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
12498 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12500 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
12501 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12502 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12503 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12505 o Minor features (directory authority):
12506 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
12507 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
12509 o Minor features (geoip):
12510 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12513 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
12514 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
12515 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
12518 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
12519 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12520 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12521 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12522 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12524 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
12525 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12526 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12527 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12528 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12530 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
12531 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
12532 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
12533 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
12535 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
12536 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
12537 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
12538 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
12539 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12541 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12542 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
12543 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
12544 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12546 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12547 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
12548 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
12549 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12550 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
12551 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
12552 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
12554 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12555 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
12556 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
12557 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
12558 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12559 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
12560 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
12561 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
12563 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
12564 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
12565 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
12566 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
12567 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
12568 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
12569 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12571 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
12572 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
12573 would call the Rust implementation of
12574 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
12575 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
12576 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
12577 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
12578 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12580 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
12581 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
12582 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
12585 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
12586 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
12587 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
12588 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
12589 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
12590 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12592 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
12593 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
12594 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
12595 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
12596 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12598 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12599 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
12601 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
12602 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
12603 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
12606 o Documentation (man page):
12607 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
12608 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
12612 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
12613 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
12614 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
12615 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
12616 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
12617 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
12620 o Major features (embedding):
12621 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
12622 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
12623 Closes ticket 23684.
12624 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
12625 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
12626 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
12627 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
12628 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
12629 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
12631 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
12632 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
12633 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
12634 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
12635 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
12636 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
12637 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
12638 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
12639 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
12640 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
12641 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
12644 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
12645 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
12646 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
12647 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
12648 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
12649 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
12650 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
12652 o Major features (onion services):
12653 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
12654 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
12655 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
12656 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
12657 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
12660 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
12661 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
12662 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
12663 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
12664 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
12665 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
12666 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
12667 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
12669 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
12670 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
12671 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
12672 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
12673 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
12675 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
12676 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
12677 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
12678 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
12679 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
12680 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
12681 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12683 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
12684 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12685 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12686 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12687 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12688 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12689 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12690 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
12691 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
12692 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
12693 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12695 o Major bugfixes (relays):
12696 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
12697 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
12698 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
12699 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
12700 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
12701 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12703 o Minor feature (IPv6):
12704 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
12705 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
12706 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
12707 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
12708 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
12709 Implements ticket 23827.
12711 o Minor features (cleanup):
12712 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
12713 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
12715 o Minor features (defensive programming):
12716 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
12717 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
12718 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
12719 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
12720 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
12721 once. Part of ticket 24337.
12722 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
12723 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
12724 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
12726 o Minor features (embedding):
12727 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
12728 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
12729 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
12730 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
12731 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
12732 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
12733 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
12734 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
12735 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
12736 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
12737 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
12738 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
12739 Closes ticket 23848.
12740 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
12741 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
12742 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
12744 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
12745 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
12746 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
12747 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
12748 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
12749 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
12750 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
12751 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
12754 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
12755 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
12756 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
12757 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
12758 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
12759 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
12760 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
12762 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
12763 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
12764 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
12765 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
12766 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
12767 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
12768 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
12769 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
12770 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
12771 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
12772 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
12773 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
12775 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
12776 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
12777 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
12779 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
12780 Implements ticket 24791.
12782 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
12783 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
12784 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
12785 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
12786 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
12787 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
12789 o Minor features (heartbeat):
12790 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
12791 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
12794 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
12795 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
12796 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
12797 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
12798 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
12800 o Minor features (log messages):
12801 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
12802 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
12803 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
12804 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
12806 o Minor features (logging, android):
12807 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
12810 o Minor features (performance):
12811 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
12812 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
12813 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
12814 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
12816 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
12817 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
12818 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
12819 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
12820 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
12821 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
12822 Implements ticket 24374.
12824 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
12825 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
12826 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
12827 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
12828 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
12830 o Minor features (performance, windows):
12831 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
12832 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
12833 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
12836 o Major features (relay):
12837 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
12838 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
12839 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
12840 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
12841 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12843 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
12844 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
12845 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
12846 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
12847 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
12848 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
12849 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
12850 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
12851 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
12853 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
12854 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
12855 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
12856 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12858 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
12859 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
12860 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
12861 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
12862 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
12863 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
12864 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12865 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
12866 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
12867 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
12868 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
12869 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
12872 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
12873 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
12874 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
12875 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
12878 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
12879 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
12880 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
12883 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
12884 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
12885 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
12887 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
12888 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12889 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
12890 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
12891 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
12893 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
12894 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
12895 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
12896 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12898 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
12899 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
12900 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12901 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
12902 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
12903 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12905 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12906 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
12907 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
12908 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
12910 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12911 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
12912 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
12913 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
12914 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12915 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
12918 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
12919 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
12920 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
12921 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12923 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
12924 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
12925 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
12926 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12928 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
12929 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
12930 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
12931 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
12932 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
12933 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12934 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
12935 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
12936 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
12937 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
12938 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
12939 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12941 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12942 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
12943 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12944 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
12945 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
12947 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12948 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
12950 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
12951 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
12952 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
12953 "aruna1234" and teor.
12954 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
12955 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
12956 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
12957 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
12959 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
12960 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
12961 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
12962 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
12963 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
12964 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
12965 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
12966 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
12967 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
12968 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
12970 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
12971 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
12974 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
12975 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
12977 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
12978 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
12979 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
12980 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
12981 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
12982 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
12985 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
12986 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
12987 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
12988 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
12989 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
12991 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
12992 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
12993 adding very little except for unit test.
12995 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
12996 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
12997 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
12998 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
13000 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
13001 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
13002 const. Implements ticket 24489.
13005 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
13006 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
13008 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
13009 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
13010 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
13011 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
13012 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
13013 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
13015 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13016 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13017 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13018 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13019 with the 0.2.9 series.
13021 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
13022 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13024 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
13025 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
13026 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
13027 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
13028 information. Closes ticket 24801.
13029 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
13030 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
13031 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
13032 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
13034 o Minor features (geoip):
13035 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13038 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
13039 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
13040 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
13041 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
13042 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
13045 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13046 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
13047 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13049 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
13050 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
13051 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
13052 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
13056 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
13057 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
13058 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
13059 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
13060 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
13061 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
13062 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
13064 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
13065 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
13066 will be nearly identical to this.
13068 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
13069 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
13070 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
13071 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
13072 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
13073 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
13074 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13076 o Minor features (geoip):
13077 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13080 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
13081 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
13082 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
13083 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13085 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
13086 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
13087 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
13088 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
13089 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
13092 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13093 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
13094 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
13095 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
13096 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
13097 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13100 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
13101 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
13102 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
13104 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
13105 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
13106 be nearly identical to this.
13108 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
13109 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
13110 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
13111 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
13112 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
13113 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
13114 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13116 o Minor features (logging):
13117 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
13120 o Minor features (portability):
13121 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
13122 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
13125 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
13126 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
13127 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
13128 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
13129 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13130 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
13131 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
13132 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
13133 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13134 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
13135 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
13136 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
13137 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13139 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13140 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
13141 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
13143 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13144 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
13145 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
13146 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
13147 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
13148 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
13149 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
13152 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
13153 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
13154 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
13155 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
13156 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
13157 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
13158 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13160 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13161 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
13162 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
13163 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
13164 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
13165 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
13166 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
13167 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13168 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
13169 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
13170 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13173 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
13174 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
13175 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
13176 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
13179 o Major bugfixes (security):
13180 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13181 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13182 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13183 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13184 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13185 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13186 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13187 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13188 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13189 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13191 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13192 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13193 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13194 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13195 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13196 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13197 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13200 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
13201 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13202 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13203 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13204 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13206 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
13207 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13208 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13209 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13210 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13211 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13212 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
13213 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
13214 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13216 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
13217 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
13218 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
13219 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
13221 o Minor features (directory authority):
13222 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13225 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13226 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
13227 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
13228 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13231 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
13232 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
13233 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
13234 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
13236 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13237 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13238 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13239 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13240 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13241 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13242 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13243 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13244 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13245 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13246 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13248 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13249 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13250 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13251 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13252 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13253 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13254 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13257 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13258 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13259 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13260 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13261 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13263 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13264 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13265 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13266 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13267 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13268 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13269 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
13270 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
13271 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13273 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13274 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13275 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13276 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13277 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13278 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13281 o Minor features (bridge):
13282 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13283 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13284 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13285 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13288 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13289 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13292 o Minor features (geoip):
13293 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13296 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13297 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13298 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13299 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13300 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13302 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13303 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13304 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13306 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13307 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13308 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13309 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13310 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13311 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13313 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
13314 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
13315 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
13318 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13319 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13320 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13321 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13322 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13325 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
13326 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13327 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13328 to another of the releases coming out today.
13330 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
13331 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13332 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13334 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13335 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13336 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13337 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13338 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13339 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13340 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13341 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13342 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13343 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13344 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13346 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13347 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13348 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13349 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13350 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13351 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13352 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13355 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13356 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13357 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13358 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13359 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13361 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13362 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13363 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13364 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13365 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13366 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13367 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
13368 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
13369 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13371 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13372 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13373 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13374 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13375 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13376 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13379 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13380 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13381 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13382 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13383 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13384 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13386 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13387 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13388 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13389 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13390 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13393 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13394 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13397 o Minor features (geoip):
13398 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13401 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13402 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13403 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13404 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13405 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13407 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13408 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13409 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13411 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13412 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13413 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13414 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13415 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13416 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13418 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13419 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13420 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13421 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13422 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13424 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13425 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13426 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13429 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
13430 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13431 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13432 to another of the releases coming out today.
13434 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13435 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13436 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13437 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13438 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13439 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13442 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13443 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13444 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13445 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13446 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13447 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13448 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13449 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13450 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
13451 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
13452 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
13454 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13455 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13456 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13457 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13458 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13459 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13460 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13463 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13464 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13465 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13466 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13467 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13469 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13470 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13471 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13472 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13473 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13474 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13476 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13477 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13478 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13479 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13480 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13483 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13484 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13487 o Minor features (geoip):
13488 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13491 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13492 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13493 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13494 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13495 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13496 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13498 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13499 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13500 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13501 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13502 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13504 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13505 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13506 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13508 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13509 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13510 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13511 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13512 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13513 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13515 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13516 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13517 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13518 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13519 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13521 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13522 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13523 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13526 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
13527 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13528 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13529 to another of the releases coming out today.
13531 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13532 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
13533 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13535 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13536 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13537 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13538 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13539 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13540 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13541 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13542 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13543 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13544 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13545 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13546 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13547 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13548 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13549 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13552 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13553 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13554 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13555 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13556 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13558 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13559 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
13560 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
13561 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
13562 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
13565 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13566 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13567 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13568 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13569 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13572 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13573 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13576 o Minor features (geoip):
13577 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13580 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13581 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13582 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13585 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
13586 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13587 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13588 to another of the releases coming out today.
13590 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
13591 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
13592 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13594 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13595 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13596 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13597 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13598 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13599 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13600 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13601 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13602 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13603 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13604 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13605 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13606 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13607 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13608 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13611 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13612 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13613 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13614 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13615 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13616 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13618 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13619 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13620 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13621 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13622 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13625 o Minor features (geoip):
13626 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13630 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
13631 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
13632 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
13633 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
13634 since the 0.3.0.x series.
13636 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
13637 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
13640 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
13641 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
13642 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
13643 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
13644 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
13645 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
13646 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
13647 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
13648 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
13649 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
13650 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
13653 o Minor features (directory authority):
13654 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
13655 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
13656 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
13657 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
13659 o Minor features (geoip):
13660 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13663 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13664 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
13665 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
13667 o Minor features (logging):
13668 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
13669 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
13671 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
13672 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
13674 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13675 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
13676 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
13677 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13678 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
13679 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
13680 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
13681 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
13683 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13684 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
13685 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
13688 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
13689 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
13690 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
13691 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13693 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
13694 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
13695 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13696 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
13697 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
13698 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
13699 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
13700 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
13701 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
13704 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13705 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
13706 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13707 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
13708 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
13709 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
13710 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13712 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
13713 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
13714 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
13715 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
13716 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
13717 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13719 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13720 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
13721 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
13722 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
13723 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13724 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
13725 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
13727 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
13728 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
13729 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13731 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
13732 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
13733 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
13734 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
13735 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
13736 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
13737 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
13738 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
13741 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
13742 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
13743 section. Closes ticket 24254.
13746 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
13747 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
13748 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
13749 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
13752 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
13753 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
13754 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
13755 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
13756 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
13757 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
13760 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
13761 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
13762 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
13763 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
13764 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13766 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
13767 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
13768 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
13769 Closes ticket 23753.
13771 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
13772 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
13773 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
13774 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
13775 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
13777 o Minor features (testing):
13778 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
13779 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
13781 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
13782 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
13783 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
13784 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
13785 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13787 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
13788 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
13789 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
13790 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
13791 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
13794 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13795 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
13796 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
13797 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
13798 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13800 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
13801 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
13802 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
13803 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13805 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13806 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
13807 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
13809 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
13810 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13811 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
13813 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13814 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
13815 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
13816 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13817 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
13818 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13820 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
13821 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
13822 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
13823 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
13824 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
13825 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
13826 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13827 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
13828 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
13829 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13830 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
13831 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13833 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
13834 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13835 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13836 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13837 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13839 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13840 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
13841 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13842 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
13843 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
13844 Closes ticket 24109.
13847 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
13848 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
13849 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
13850 directory authority, Bastet.
13852 o Directory authority changes:
13853 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13854 Closes ticket 23910.
13855 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13856 Closes ticket 23592.
13858 o Minor features (bridge):
13859 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
13860 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
13861 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
13862 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
13863 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
13864 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
13865 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
13867 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
13868 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
13869 Resolves ticket 23670.
13871 o Minor features (geoip):
13872 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13875 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
13876 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
13877 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
13878 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13880 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
13881 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
13882 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13884 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
13885 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
13886 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
13887 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
13888 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
13889 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13891 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
13892 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
13893 only fetch the service descriptor once.
13894 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
13895 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
13896 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13898 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
13899 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
13900 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
13901 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
13903 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
13904 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
13905 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13907 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
13908 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
13909 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
13910 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
13911 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
13913 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
13914 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
13915 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13917 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13918 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
13919 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
13922 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13923 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
13924 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
13925 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
13926 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13927 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
13928 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
13929 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
13931 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
13932 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
13933 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
13934 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
13935 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
13938 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
13939 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
13940 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
13941 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
13942 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
13946 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
13947 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13948 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13950 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
13951 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
13952 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13954 o Directory authority changes:
13955 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13956 Closes ticket 23910.
13957 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13958 Closes ticket 23592.
13960 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13961 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13962 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13963 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13964 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13966 o Minor features (geoip):
13967 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13970 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13971 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13972 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13973 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13974 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13975 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13976 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13977 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13978 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13980 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13981 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13982 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13983 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13984 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13985 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13986 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13987 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13988 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13991 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
13992 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13993 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13994 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13996 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13997 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13998 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14000 o Directory authority changes:
14001 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14002 Closes ticket 23910.
14003 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14004 Closes ticket 23592.
14006 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14007 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14008 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14009 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14011 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14012 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14013 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14014 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14015 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14017 o Minor features (geoip):
14018 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14022 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
14023 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14024 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14025 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14027 o Directory authority changes:
14028 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14029 Closes ticket 23910.
14030 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14031 Closes ticket 23592.
14033 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14034 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14035 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14036 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14038 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14039 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14040 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14041 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14042 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14044 o Minor features (geoip):
14045 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14048 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14049 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14050 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14051 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14052 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14053 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14054 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14055 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14058 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14059 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14060 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14062 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14063 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14064 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14065 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14066 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14067 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14068 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14071 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
14072 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
14073 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
14074 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
14076 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
14077 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14078 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14080 o Directory authority changes:
14081 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14082 Closes ticket 23910.
14083 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14084 Closes ticket 23592.
14086 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14087 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14088 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14089 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14091 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14092 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14093 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14094 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14095 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14097 o Minor features (geoip):
14098 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14101 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14102 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14103 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14104 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14105 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14106 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14107 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14108 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14111 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14112 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14113 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
14114 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14116 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14117 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14118 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14120 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14121 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14122 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14123 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14124 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14125 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14126 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14129 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
14130 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
14131 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
14132 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
14133 a new directory authority, Bastet.
14135 o Directory authority changes:
14136 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14137 Closes ticket 23910.
14138 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14139 Closes ticket 23592.
14141 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14142 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14143 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14144 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14146 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14147 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14148 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14149 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14150 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14152 o Minor features (geoip):
14153 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14156 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14157 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
14158 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
14159 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
14161 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14162 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
14163 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
14166 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14167 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
14168 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
14170 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14171 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14172 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
14173 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14175 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
14176 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
14177 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14179 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14180 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
14181 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
14185 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
14186 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
14187 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
14188 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
14189 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
14190 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
14192 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
14193 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
14194 include better testing and logging.
14196 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
14199 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
14200 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
14201 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
14202 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
14204 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
14205 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
14206 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
14207 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
14208 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
14209 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
14210 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14212 o Minor features (build, compilation):
14213 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
14214 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
14215 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
14216 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
14217 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
14218 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
14219 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
14220 Closes ticket 23643.
14222 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14223 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
14224 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
14225 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
14226 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
14228 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
14229 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
14230 the circuit identifier(s).
14231 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
14232 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
14234 o Minor features (logging):
14235 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
14236 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
14237 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
14238 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
14239 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
14241 o Minor features (relay):
14242 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
14243 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
14244 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
14245 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
14247 o Minor features (robustness):
14248 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
14249 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
14251 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
14252 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
14253 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
14254 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
14255 related to ticket 23080.
14257 o Minor features (testing):
14258 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
14259 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
14262 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
14263 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
14264 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
14266 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
14267 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
14270 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
14271 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
14272 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
14273 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
14274 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
14275 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
14276 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
14277 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
14278 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14280 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
14281 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
14282 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
14285 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14286 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
14287 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
14288 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14290 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
14291 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
14292 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
14293 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
14294 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14295 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
14296 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
14297 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
14300 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
14301 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
14302 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
14303 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14305 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
14306 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14307 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14308 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14309 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14310 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14312 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
14313 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
14314 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
14315 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14316 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
14317 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
14318 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14319 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
14320 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14321 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
14322 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
14324 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
14325 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
14326 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
14327 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14328 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
14329 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14331 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14332 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
14333 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
14335 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
14336 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
14338 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
14339 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
14340 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14342 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14343 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
14344 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
14347 o Deprecated features:
14348 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
14349 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
14350 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
14353 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
14354 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14355 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
14356 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
14357 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
14358 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
14359 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
14360 Closes ticket 18736.
14363 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
14364 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
14365 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
14366 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
14367 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
14368 features and bugfixes here.
14370 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
14372 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
14373 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
14374 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
14375 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
14376 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
14377 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
14378 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
14379 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
14380 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
14381 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
14382 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
14383 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
14385 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
14386 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
14387 more information, see the design paper at
14388 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
14389 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
14390 Closes ticket 12541.
14392 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
14393 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
14394 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
14395 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
14396 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
14397 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
14400 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
14401 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
14403 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
14406 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
14409 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
14411 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
14413 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
14415 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
14416 they are 56 characters long, as in
14417 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
14419 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
14420 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
14421 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
14422 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
14423 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
14426 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
14427 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
14428 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
14429 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
14430 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
14431 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
14434 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
14435 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
14436 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
14437 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
14439 o Minor features (bug detection):
14440 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
14441 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
14442 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
14444 o Minor features (client):
14445 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
14446 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
14447 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
14448 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
14449 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
14450 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
14451 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
14452 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
14453 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
14454 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
14456 o Minor features (command line):
14457 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
14458 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
14459 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
14461 o Minor features (control port):
14462 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
14463 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
14464 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
14466 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
14467 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
14469 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
14470 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
14471 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
14472 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
14473 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
14474 Closes ticket 23237.
14475 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
14476 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
14478 o Minor features (development support):
14479 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
14480 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
14481 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
14482 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
14483 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
14484 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
14486 o Minor features (ed25519):
14487 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
14488 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
14489 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
14491 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
14492 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
14493 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
14495 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
14496 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
14497 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
14498 another program, regardless of the settings of
14499 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
14500 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
14501 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
14503 o Minor features (logging):
14504 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
14505 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
14506 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
14508 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
14509 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
14511 o Minor features (portability):
14512 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
14513 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
14514 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
14515 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
14517 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
14518 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
14519 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
14520 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
14521 results. Closes ticket 22731.
14523 o Minor features (startup, safety):
14524 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
14525 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
14528 o Minor features (static analysis):
14529 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
14530 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
14533 o Minor features (testing):
14534 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
14535 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
14536 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
14537 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
14538 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
14540 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
14541 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
14542 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
14543 Coverity as CID 1415728.
14545 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
14546 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
14547 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
14548 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
14549 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
14550 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
14551 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
14552 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14554 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14555 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
14556 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
14557 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
14558 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14559 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
14560 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
14561 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
14563 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14564 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14565 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14567 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
14568 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
14569 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
14570 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
14572 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
14573 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
14574 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
14575 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
14576 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
14577 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
14579 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
14580 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
14583 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
14584 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
14585 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
14586 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14588 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
14589 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
14590 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
14591 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
14592 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
14593 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
14594 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
14597 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
14598 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
14599 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
14600 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14602 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
14603 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
14604 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14606 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14607 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
14608 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
14609 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14610 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
14611 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
14613 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
14614 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
14615 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
14617 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
14618 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
14619 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
14621 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
14622 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
14623 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
14624 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
14626 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14627 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
14628 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14630 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14631 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
14632 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
14633 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
14634 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14635 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14636 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14637 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14639 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14640 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
14641 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
14642 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14643 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
14644 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
14645 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14647 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
14648 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
14649 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
14650 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
14652 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14653 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
14654 function from the general code to handle channel state
14655 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
14656 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
14657 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
14658 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
14659 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
14660 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
14661 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
14662 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
14664 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
14665 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
14667 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
14668 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
14669 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
14670 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
14671 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
14672 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
14673 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
14674 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
14675 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
14676 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
14677 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
14678 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
14680 o Deprecated features:
14681 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
14682 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
14683 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
14687 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
14688 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
14689 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
14690 Closes ticket 15645.
14691 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
14692 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
14693 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
14694 file. Closes ticket 21148.
14696 o Removed features:
14697 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
14698 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
14699 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
14700 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
14701 Closes ticket 21031.
14702 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
14703 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
14706 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
14707 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
14710 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
14711 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
14712 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
14713 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
14715 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14716 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
14717 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
14718 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
14720 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14721 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14722 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14723 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14724 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14727 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14730 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14731 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14732 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14735 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14736 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14737 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14738 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14739 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14740 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14741 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14742 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14743 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14745 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14746 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14747 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14748 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14749 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14750 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14751 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14752 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14753 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14756 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
14757 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
14760 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
14761 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
14762 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
14763 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
14765 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
14766 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
14767 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
14768 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
14769 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
14770 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
14771 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
14773 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
14774 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14775 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14776 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14778 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
14779 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
14780 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14782 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14783 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14784 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14785 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14787 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14788 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14789 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14790 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14791 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14793 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14794 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
14795 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
14796 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
14798 o Minor features (geoip):
14799 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14802 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14803 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14804 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14805 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14807 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14808 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
14809 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14810 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
14811 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14812 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
14813 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
14814 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14816 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14817 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
14818 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14820 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14821 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14822 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14825 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14826 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
14827 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14828 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
14829 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14831 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14832 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14833 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14834 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14835 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14836 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14838 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14839 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14840 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14841 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14842 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14843 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14844 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14845 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14846 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14848 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14849 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
14850 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
14851 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14853 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14854 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14855 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14857 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14858 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14859 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14860 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14861 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14863 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
14864 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
14865 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
14868 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14869 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14870 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14871 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14872 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14874 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14875 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14876 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14877 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14878 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14879 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14880 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14881 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14882 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14885 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
14886 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
14889 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
14890 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
14891 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
14892 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
14894 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14895 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
14896 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
14897 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
14900 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14903 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14904 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
14905 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14907 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
14908 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
14909 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14910 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
14911 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14913 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14914 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
14915 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
14916 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14918 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14919 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
14920 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
14922 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
14923 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
14924 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
14925 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14928 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
14929 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
14931 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
14932 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
14933 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
14934 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
14935 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
14936 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
14937 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
14939 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
14940 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
14941 disabled. For more information, see
14942 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
14944 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
14945 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
14946 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
14947 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
14948 with the 0.2.9 series.
14950 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
14951 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14953 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
14954 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
14955 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
14956 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
14957 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
14959 o Minor features (defensive programming):
14960 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
14961 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
14962 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
14965 o Minor features (diagnostic):
14966 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
14967 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
14968 attempt for bug 23105.
14970 o Minor features (geoip):
14971 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14974 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14975 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
14976 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14978 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14979 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
14980 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14981 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
14982 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14984 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14985 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
14986 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
14987 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14989 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14990 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
14991 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
14995 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
14996 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
14997 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
14998 Windows directory caches.
15000 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
15001 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
15002 will be nearly identical to it.
15004 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
15005 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
15006 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
15007 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
15008 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
15009 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15011 o Minor features (directory authority):
15012 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
15013 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
15014 Closes ticket 22348.
15016 o Minor features (geoip):
15017 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15020 o Minor features (testing):
15021 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
15024 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
15025 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
15026 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15028 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15029 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
15030 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
15031 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
15032 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
15033 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
15034 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
15035 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
15036 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
15037 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15039 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
15040 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
15041 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
15043 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
15044 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
15045 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
15046 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
15048 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15049 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
15050 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
15051 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
15052 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15054 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
15055 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
15056 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
15057 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
15058 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
15059 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
15061 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
15062 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
15063 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15064 with the clang static analyzer.
15066 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15067 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
15068 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
15069 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
15070 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
15073 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
15074 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
15075 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
15076 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
15077 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
15078 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15079 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
15082 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
15083 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
15084 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
15085 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
15087 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15088 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15089 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15090 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15091 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15092 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15093 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15094 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15095 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15097 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15098 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15099 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15100 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15102 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15103 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15104 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15105 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15106 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15108 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15109 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15112 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
15113 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
15114 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
15115 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
15117 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15118 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
15119 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15120 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
15121 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15122 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
15123 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
15124 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
15127 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15128 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15129 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15132 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15133 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15134 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15135 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15136 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15137 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15139 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15140 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
15141 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
15142 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15144 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15145 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15146 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15148 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
15149 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
15150 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15153 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
15154 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
15155 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
15156 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
15157 next version will be a release candidate.
15159 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
15160 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
15161 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
15162 one of those versions should upgrade.
15164 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
15165 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15166 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15167 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15168 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15169 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15170 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15171 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15172 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15174 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
15175 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15176 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15177 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15178 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15180 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
15181 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
15182 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
15183 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
15184 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
15185 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15187 o Minor features (bridge authority):
15188 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
15189 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
15191 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
15192 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
15193 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
15194 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
15195 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
15198 o Minor features (geoip):
15199 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15202 o Minor features (relay, performance):
15203 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
15204 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
15205 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
15206 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
15207 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
15210 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
15211 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
15212 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
15213 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
15214 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
15216 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
15217 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
15218 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
15219 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
15220 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15222 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
15223 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
15224 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15225 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
15226 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15227 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
15228 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
15229 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15230 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
15231 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
15232 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
15235 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
15236 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15237 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15238 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15239 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15240 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15242 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15243 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
15244 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
15245 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
15246 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
15247 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
15248 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
15249 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
15252 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
15253 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
15254 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
15257 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
15258 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15259 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15260 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15262 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15263 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15264 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15266 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
15267 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
15268 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
15269 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
15271 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15272 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
15273 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
15274 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
15275 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15276 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
15277 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15280 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
15281 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
15282 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
15283 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
15284 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
15287 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
15288 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
15291 o New dependencies:
15292 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
15293 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
15294 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
15295 close ticket 22623.)
15297 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
15298 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
15299 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
15300 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
15301 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
15302 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
15304 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
15305 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
15306 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
15307 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15309 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
15310 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
15311 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
15312 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
15313 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15315 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
15316 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
15317 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
15318 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15320 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
15321 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
15322 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
15323 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
15325 o Minor features (geoip):
15326 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15329 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
15330 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
15331 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
15333 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
15334 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15335 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
15336 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
15337 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
15338 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
15340 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
15341 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
15343 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
15344 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
15345 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
15346 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
15347 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15349 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
15350 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
15351 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
15352 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
15353 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15354 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15355 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15356 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15357 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15358 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15359 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15360 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15362 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15363 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
15364 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
15365 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
15366 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15367 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
15368 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
15369 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
15370 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15372 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15373 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
15374 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
15375 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
15376 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
15377 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
15378 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
15379 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
15380 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
15381 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
15382 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15383 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
15384 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
15385 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
15386 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
15387 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15389 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
15390 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
15391 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
15392 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
15393 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
15394 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
15395 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
15399 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
15401 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
15402 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
15404 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
15405 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
15406 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
15410 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
15411 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
15412 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
15413 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
15414 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
15417 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
15420 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15421 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
15422 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
15423 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
15424 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
15425 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
15427 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15428 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
15429 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
15430 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15432 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15433 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
15434 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
15435 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15437 o Minor features (geoip):
15438 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15441 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15442 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
15443 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
15444 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
15445 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15447 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15448 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
15449 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
15450 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
15451 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15453 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15454 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15455 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15456 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15457 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15458 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15459 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15460 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15461 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15464 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
15465 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
15466 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15467 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15468 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
15470 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
15471 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
15472 bugfixes described below.
15474 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15475 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
15476 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
15477 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15478 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15479 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15480 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15483 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
15484 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
15485 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
15486 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
15487 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
15488 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
15489 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
15492 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
15493 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
15494 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
15495 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
15496 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
15497 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
15498 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
15499 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15500 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
15501 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
15502 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
15503 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
15504 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
15507 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
15508 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
15509 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
15511 o Minor features (code style):
15512 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15513 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15514 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15516 o Minor features (diagnostic):
15517 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
15518 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
15519 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
15520 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
15522 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15523 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15524 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15526 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
15527 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
15528 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15530 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
15531 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
15532 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
15533 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
15534 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
15535 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
15536 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15538 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
15539 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
15540 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
15541 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
15542 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15544 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15545 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
15546 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
15550 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
15553 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
15554 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
15555 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15556 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15557 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
15559 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
15560 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
15561 bugfixes described below.
15563 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
15564 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15565 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
15566 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
15567 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15568 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15569 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15570 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15573 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15574 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
15575 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
15576 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
15577 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
15578 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
15579 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
15582 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15583 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
15584 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
15585 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
15586 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
15587 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
15588 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
15589 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15590 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
15591 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
15592 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
15593 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
15594 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
15597 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15598 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
15599 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
15602 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15603 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
15604 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
15605 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
15606 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
15608 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15609 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
15610 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15612 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15613 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15614 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15616 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15617 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
15618 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
15619 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
15620 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
15621 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
15622 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15624 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
15626 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
15627 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
15628 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15631 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
15632 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15633 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15634 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15635 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15636 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15638 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
15639 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
15640 bugfixes described below.
15642 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
15643 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15644 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15645 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15646 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15649 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15650 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
15651 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
15652 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
15653 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
15654 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
15655 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
15658 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15659 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
15660 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
15661 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
15662 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
15664 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
15665 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
15666 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
15667 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
15668 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
15669 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
15670 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
15672 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
15673 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
15674 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
15675 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
15676 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
15678 o Minor features (geoip):
15679 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15682 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
15683 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
15684 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
15685 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15687 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15688 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15689 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15691 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
15692 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
15693 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
15694 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
15695 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
15698 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
15699 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
15700 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
15701 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
15702 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15704 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
15705 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15706 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15707 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15708 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15709 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15711 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15712 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15713 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15714 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15717 o Minor features (geoip):
15718 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15721 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15722 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
15723 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
15724 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
15725 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
15727 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15728 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15729 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15731 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
15732 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15733 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15734 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15735 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15736 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15738 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15739 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15740 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15741 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15744 o Minor features (geoip):
15745 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15748 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15749 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15750 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15753 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
15754 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15755 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15756 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15757 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15758 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15760 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15761 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15762 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15763 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15766 o Minor features (geoip):
15767 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15770 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15771 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15772 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15774 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
15775 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15776 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15777 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15778 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15779 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15781 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15782 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15783 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15784 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15787 o Minor features (geoip):
15788 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15791 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15792 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15793 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15795 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
15796 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
15797 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
15798 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
15799 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
15800 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
15802 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
15803 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
15804 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
15805 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
15808 o Minor features (geoip):
15809 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15812 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
15813 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
15814 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
15817 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
15818 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
15819 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
15820 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
15822 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
15823 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
15824 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
15825 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
15826 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15828 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15829 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
15830 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
15833 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
15834 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
15835 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
15836 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15839 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
15840 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
15841 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
15842 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
15843 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
15846 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
15847 security, correctness, and performance.
15849 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
15851 o Major features (directory protocol):
15852 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
15853 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
15854 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
15855 now request these documents when available. When both client and
15856 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
15857 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
15858 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
15859 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
15860 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
15861 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
15862 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
15863 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
15864 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
15865 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
15866 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
15867 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
15868 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
15870 o Major features (experimental):
15871 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
15872 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
15873 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
15874 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
15875 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
15876 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
15877 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
15879 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
15880 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
15881 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
15882 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
15883 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
15884 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
15887 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
15888 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
15889 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
15890 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
15891 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
15892 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
15893 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
15894 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
15895 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
15896 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
15897 multiples of 10000.
15899 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
15900 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
15901 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
15902 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
15903 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
15904 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
15905 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
15906 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
15907 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15908 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
15909 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
15910 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
15911 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
15912 Otherwise it is at info.
15914 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
15915 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
15916 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
15917 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15919 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
15920 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15921 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15922 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15924 o Minor features (security, windows):
15925 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
15926 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
15927 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
15928 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
15929 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
15931 o Minor features (config options):
15932 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
15933 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
15934 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
15935 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
15936 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
15937 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
15938 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
15939 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
15941 o Minor features (controller):
15942 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
15943 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
15945 o Minor features (defaults):
15946 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
15947 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
15948 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
15949 can. Closes ticket 21407.
15950 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
15951 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
15952 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
15953 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
15954 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
15955 Closes ticket 21641.
15957 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
15958 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
15959 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
15960 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
15961 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
15962 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
15963 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
15965 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
15966 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
15967 introduction points than specified in
15968 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
15969 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
15970 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
15971 21594; closes ticket 21622.
15972 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
15973 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
15974 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
15975 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
15977 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15978 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
15979 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
15980 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
15981 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
15982 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
15983 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
15984 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
15985 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
15986 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
15988 o Minor features (logging):
15989 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
15990 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
15991 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
15992 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
15995 o Minor features (performance):
15996 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
15997 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
15999 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
16000 speed some controller functions.
16002 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
16003 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
16004 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
16005 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
16007 o Minor features (safety):
16008 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
16009 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
16010 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
16013 o Minor features (testing):
16014 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
16015 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
16016 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
16017 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
16018 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
16019 on. Closes ticket 21439.
16020 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
16021 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
16022 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
16023 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
16024 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
16025 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
16026 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
16027 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
16028 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
16029 21507. Partially implements 21470.
16031 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
16032 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
16033 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
16034 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
16036 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16037 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
16038 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
16039 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
16042 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16043 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
16044 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16046 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
16047 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
16048 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
16049 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
16050 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
16051 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
16052 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16053 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
16054 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
16055 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
16056 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
16057 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
16058 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
16059 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
16061 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16062 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
16063 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16064 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
16065 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
16066 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
16067 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
16068 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16070 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16071 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
16072 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
16073 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16074 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
16075 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
16076 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
16078 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
16079 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
16080 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
16081 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
16082 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
16084 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16085 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
16086 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16087 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
16088 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
16089 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16090 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
16091 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16092 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
16093 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
16094 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16096 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16097 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
16098 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
16099 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16100 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
16101 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
16102 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16104 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16105 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
16106 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16108 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
16109 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
16110 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
16111 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
16112 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
16114 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16115 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
16116 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
16117 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16118 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
16119 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16120 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
16121 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
16122 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
16123 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
16125 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
16126 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
16127 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
16128 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
16129 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16131 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
16132 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
16133 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16135 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16136 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
16137 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
16138 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
16139 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
16140 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
16141 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
16142 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
16143 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
16144 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
16145 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
16146 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
16148 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
16149 Resolves ticket 22213.
16150 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
16151 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
16152 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
16153 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
16154 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
16155 types. Closes ticket 21651.
16156 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
16157 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
16160 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
16161 Closes ticket 21873.
16162 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
16163 Closes ticket 21151.
16164 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
16165 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
16167 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
16168 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16169 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
16170 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
16172 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
16173 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
16174 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
16175 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
16176 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
16177 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
16178 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
16179 default behavior is now unavailable.
16180 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
16181 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
16182 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
16183 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
16184 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
16185 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
16186 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
16188 o Removed features (tools):
16189 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
16190 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
16191 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
16192 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
16193 required. Closes ticket 21842.
16196 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
16197 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
16198 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
16199 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
16200 clients are not affected.
16202 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
16203 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
16204 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
16205 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
16206 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
16207 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16210 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16213 o Minor features (future-proofing):
16214 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
16215 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
16216 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
16217 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
16218 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
16219 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
16221 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16222 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
16223 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
16224 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
16225 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
16229 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
16230 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
16232 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
16233 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
16234 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
16235 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
16236 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
16237 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
16240 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
16241 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
16243 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
16244 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
16245 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
16246 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
16247 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
16249 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
16250 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16252 o Minor features (geoip):
16253 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16256 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
16257 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
16258 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
16259 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16261 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
16262 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
16263 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
16264 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16267 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
16268 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
16269 0.3.0 release series.
16271 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
16272 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
16273 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
16276 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
16277 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
16278 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
16279 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
16281 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
16282 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
16283 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
16284 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16285 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
16287 o Minor features (geoip):
16288 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16291 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
16292 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
16293 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
16294 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
16297 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16298 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
16299 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
16300 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
16301 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
16302 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
16303 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
16304 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
16306 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16307 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
16308 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16310 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16311 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
16312 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
16315 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
16316 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
16317 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
16318 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
16319 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16322 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
16323 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
16324 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
16328 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
16329 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
16330 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
16331 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16332 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
16335 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
16336 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
16337 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16339 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16340 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16341 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16342 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16343 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16344 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16345 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16347 o Minor features (geoip):
16348 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16352 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
16353 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
16354 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
16355 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16358 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
16359 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
16360 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16362 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
16363 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16365 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
16366 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16367 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16369 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16370 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16371 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16374 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
16375 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16376 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16377 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16378 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16379 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16380 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16381 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16382 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16384 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16385 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16386 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16387 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16388 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16389 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16390 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16391 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16392 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16393 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16394 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16395 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16396 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16398 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16399 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16400 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16401 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16402 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16404 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16405 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16406 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16408 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16409 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16410 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16411 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16412 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16413 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16414 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16417 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16418 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16419 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16420 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16421 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16422 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16423 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16425 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16426 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16427 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16428 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16431 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16432 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16433 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16434 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16436 o Minor features (geoip):
16437 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16441 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
16442 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
16443 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
16444 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16447 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
16448 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
16449 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16451 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
16452 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16454 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
16455 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16456 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16458 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16459 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16460 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16463 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16464 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16465 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16466 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16467 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16468 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16469 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16470 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16471 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16473 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
16474 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16475 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16476 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16477 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16478 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16479 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16480 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16481 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16483 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16484 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16485 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16486 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16487 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16489 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
16490 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16491 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16492 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16493 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16496 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16497 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16498 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16499 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16500 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16502 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16503 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16504 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16506 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16507 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16508 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16509 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16510 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16511 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16514 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16515 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16516 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16517 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16518 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16519 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16520 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16523 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16524 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16525 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16526 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16527 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16528 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16529 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16531 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16532 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16533 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16534 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16537 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16538 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16539 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16540 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16542 o Minor features (geoip):
16543 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16546 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16547 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16548 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16551 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
16552 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
16553 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
16554 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16557 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
16558 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
16559 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16561 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
16562 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16564 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
16565 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16566 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16568 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16569 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16570 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16573 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16574 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16575 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16576 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16577 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16578 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16579 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16580 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16581 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16583 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
16584 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16585 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16586 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16587 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16588 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16589 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16590 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16591 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16593 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16594 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16595 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16596 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16597 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16599 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
16600 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16601 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16602 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16603 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16606 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16607 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16608 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16609 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16610 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16612 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16613 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16614 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16616 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16617 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16618 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16619 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16620 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16621 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16624 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16625 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16626 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16627 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16628 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16629 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16630 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16633 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16634 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16635 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16636 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16637 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16638 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16639 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16641 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16642 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16643 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16644 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16647 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16648 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16649 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16650 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16652 o Minor features (geoip):
16653 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16656 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16657 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16658 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16660 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
16661 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16662 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16663 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16664 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16665 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16667 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16668 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16669 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16673 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
16674 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
16675 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
16676 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
16679 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
16680 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
16681 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
16683 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
16684 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16686 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
16687 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16688 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16690 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16691 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16692 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16695 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16696 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16697 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16698 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16699 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16700 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16701 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16702 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16703 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16705 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
16706 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16707 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16708 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16709 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16710 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16711 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16712 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16713 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16715 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
16716 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16717 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16718 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16719 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16722 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16723 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16724 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16725 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16726 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16728 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16729 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16730 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16732 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16733 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16734 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16735 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16736 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16737 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16740 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
16741 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16742 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16743 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16744 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16745 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16746 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16749 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
16750 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16751 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16752 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16753 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16754 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16755 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16757 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
16758 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16759 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16760 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16763 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
16764 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16765 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16766 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16768 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16769 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
16770 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
16771 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
16773 o Minor features (geoip):
16774 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16777 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
16778 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16779 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16781 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
16782 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16783 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16787 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
16788 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
16789 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
16790 keep them from coming back.
16792 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
16793 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
16794 will be nearly identical to it.
16796 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
16797 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
16798 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
16799 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
16800 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
16801 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16803 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
16804 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
16805 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16807 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
16808 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
16809 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
16810 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
16811 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
16812 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
16813 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
16814 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
16815 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
16816 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16817 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16818 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16819 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16820 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16821 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16823 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
16824 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
16825 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
16827 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16828 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
16829 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
16831 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
16832 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
16833 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16834 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
16835 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
16836 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
16837 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
16839 o Minor features (geoip):
16840 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16843 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
16844 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
16845 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
16848 o Minor features (testing):
16849 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
16850 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
16851 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
16853 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
16854 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
16855 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
16857 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16858 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
16859 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
16860 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
16861 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
16862 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16864 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
16865 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
16866 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
16867 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16868 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
16869 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
16870 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
16873 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
16874 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
16875 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
16876 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16877 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
16878 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
16879 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16881 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16882 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
16883 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
16884 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
16885 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
16886 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16888 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16889 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
16890 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
16892 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
16893 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16894 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
16895 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
16896 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16899 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
16902 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
16903 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
16904 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
16905 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
16907 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
16908 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
16909 least January of 2020.
16911 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
16912 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
16913 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
16914 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
16917 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
16918 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
16919 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
16920 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
16921 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
16922 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
16923 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16925 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
16926 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
16927 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
16928 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
16929 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
16930 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
16931 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
16933 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
16934 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
16935 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
16937 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
16938 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
16939 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16941 o Minor features (geoip):
16942 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16945 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
16946 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
16947 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
16949 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
16950 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
16952 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
16953 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
16954 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
16956 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
16957 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
16958 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
16959 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
16960 Patch by "junglefowl".
16963 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
16964 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
16965 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
16966 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
16967 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
16968 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
16970 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
16971 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
16972 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
16975 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
16976 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
16977 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
16978 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
16980 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
16981 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
16982 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
16983 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
16984 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16986 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
16987 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
16988 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
16989 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
16990 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16992 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
16993 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
16994 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
16995 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
16996 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
16997 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
16998 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17000 o Minor feature (client):
17001 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
17002 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
17004 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
17005 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
17006 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
17007 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
17009 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
17010 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
17011 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
17012 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
17013 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
17015 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
17016 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
17017 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
17018 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
17019 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
17020 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
17021 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
17022 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
17023 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
17024 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
17026 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
17027 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
17028 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
17030 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
17031 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
17033 o Minor features (relay):
17034 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
17035 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
17036 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
17037 Written by Michael Sonntag.
17039 o Minor bugfix (logging):
17040 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
17041 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
17042 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
17043 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
17046 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17047 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
17048 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
17049 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17051 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
17052 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
17053 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
17055 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
17056 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17057 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
17058 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
17059 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17060 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
17061 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
17063 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
17064 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
17065 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
17066 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
17067 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
17068 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
17069 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
17072 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17073 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
17074 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17076 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17077 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
17078 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
17079 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
17080 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17081 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
17082 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
17083 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
17085 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
17086 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
17087 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17089 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17090 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
17091 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
17092 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
17094 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
17095 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
17096 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
17097 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17099 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
17100 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
17101 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
17102 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
17103 Patch by "junglefowl".
17105 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
17106 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
17107 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
17111 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
17112 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
17113 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
17114 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
17115 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
17116 version should upgrade.
17118 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
17119 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
17120 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
17121 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
17122 the set of fallback directories, and more.
17124 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
17125 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
17126 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
17127 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
17128 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
17129 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
17132 o Major features (security):
17133 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
17134 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
17135 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
17136 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
17137 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
17138 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
17140 o Major features (directory authority, security):
17141 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
17142 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
17143 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
17145 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
17146 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
17147 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
17148 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
17149 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
17152 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
17153 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
17154 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
17155 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
17156 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
17157 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
17158 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
17159 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
17160 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
17161 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
17162 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17164 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
17165 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
17166 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17168 o Minor features (controller):
17169 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
17170 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
17172 o Minor features (entry guards):
17173 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
17174 break regression tests.
17175 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
17176 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
17178 o Minor features (fallback directories):
17179 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
17181 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
17182 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
17183 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
17184 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
17185 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
17186 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
17187 Closes ticket 20539.
17188 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
17190 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
17191 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
17192 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
17193 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
17194 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
17196 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
17197 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
17198 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
17199 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
17200 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
17201 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
17202 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
17203 Closes ticket 20822.
17204 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
17205 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
17207 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
17208 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17211 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
17212 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
17213 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
17214 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
17216 o Minor features (linting):
17217 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
17218 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
17220 o Minor features (logging):
17221 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
17222 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
17224 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
17225 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
17226 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
17227 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
17228 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
17229 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
17231 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
17232 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
17233 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
17234 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
17236 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17237 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
17238 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
17241 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
17242 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
17243 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
17244 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17246 o Minor bugfixes (config):
17247 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
17248 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
17249 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
17250 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17252 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17253 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
17254 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
17257 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
17258 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
17259 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
17260 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
17261 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17263 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
17264 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
17265 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
17267 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17268 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
17269 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17270 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
17271 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
17272 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
17273 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
17274 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
17275 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
17277 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
17278 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
17279 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
17280 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17282 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
17283 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
17284 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
17285 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17286 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
17287 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17289 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17290 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
17291 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17292 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
17293 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
17294 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
17295 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
17296 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
17298 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
17299 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
17300 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17302 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
17303 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
17304 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
17305 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
17307 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
17308 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17310 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17311 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
17312 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
17313 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
17314 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
17316 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17317 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
17318 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17320 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
17321 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
17322 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
17323 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
17324 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
17326 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17327 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
17328 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
17330 o Documentation (formatting):
17331 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
17332 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
17334 o Documentation (man page):
17335 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
17336 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
17339 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
17340 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
17341 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
17342 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
17343 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
17344 version should upgrade.
17346 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
17347 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
17349 o Major bugfixes (security):
17350 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
17351 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
17352 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
17353 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
17354 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
17355 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17357 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
17358 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
17359 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
17360 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
17361 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
17362 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
17363 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
17364 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
17365 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
17366 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
17367 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17369 o Minor features (geoip):
17370 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17373 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17374 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
17375 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
17376 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
17378 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
17379 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17382 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
17383 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
17384 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
17385 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
17386 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
17387 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
17388 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
17389 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
17391 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
17393 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
17394 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
17395 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
17396 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
17397 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
17400 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
17401 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
17402 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
17403 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
17404 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
17405 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
17406 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
17407 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
17410 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
17411 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
17412 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
17413 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
17414 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
17416 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
17417 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
17418 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
17419 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
17420 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
17421 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
17422 15056; part of proposal 220.
17423 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
17424 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
17425 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
17426 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
17427 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
17429 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
17430 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
17431 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
17432 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
17433 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17435 o Minor features (controller):
17436 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
17437 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
17440 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
17441 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
17442 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
17445 o Minor features (directory authority):
17446 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
17447 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
17448 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
17449 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
17450 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
17452 o Minor features (directory cache):
17453 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
17454 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
17457 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
17458 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
17459 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
17460 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
17462 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
17463 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
17464 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
17465 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
17467 o Minor features (infrastructure):
17468 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
17469 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
17471 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17472 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
17473 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
17474 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
17476 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
17477 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
17478 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17479 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
17480 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
17481 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
17483 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
17484 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
17485 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
17486 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
17487 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
17489 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
17490 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
17491 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
17492 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
17493 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17495 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
17496 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
17497 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
17498 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
17499 on all recent tor versions.
17500 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
17501 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
17502 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
17503 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17505 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
17506 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
17507 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17509 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17510 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
17511 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
17512 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
17515 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
17516 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
17517 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
17520 o Minor bugfixes (util):
17521 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
17522 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
17523 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
17524 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
17526 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
17527 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
17528 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
17529 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
17531 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17532 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
17533 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
17534 Closes ticket 19858.
17535 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
17536 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
17537 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
17538 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
17539 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
17540 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
17541 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
17542 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
17543 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
17544 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
17545 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
17546 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
17547 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
17548 redundant with the similar structures used in the
17549 channel abstraction.
17550 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
17551 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
17552 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
17553 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
17554 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
17555 replaced with code automatically generated by the
17559 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
17560 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17561 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
17562 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
17564 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
17565 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
17567 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
17568 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
17569 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
17570 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
17571 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
17574 o Removed features:
17575 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
17576 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
17577 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
17579 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
17580 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
17581 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
17584 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
17585 from "overcaffeinated".
17586 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
17587 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
17588 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
17589 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
17590 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
17594 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
17595 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
17596 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
17597 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
17598 become available for their systems.
17600 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
17603 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
17604 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
17606 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
17607 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17608 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17609 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17610 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17611 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17612 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17613 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17614 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17616 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
17617 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
17618 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
17619 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
17620 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
17622 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
17623 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17627 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
17628 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
17630 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
17631 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
17632 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
17633 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
17634 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
17635 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
17636 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
17637 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
17639 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
17641 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
17642 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
17643 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
17644 become available for their systems.
17646 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
17647 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
17649 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
17650 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17651 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17652 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17653 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17654 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17655 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17656 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17657 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17659 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
17660 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
17661 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
17662 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
17663 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
17666 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
17667 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
17668 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
17671 o Minor features (geoip):
17672 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17675 o Minor bugfix (build):
17676 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
17677 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
17678 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17680 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17681 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
17682 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
17683 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
17685 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
17686 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
17687 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
17689 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17690 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
17691 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
17694 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
17695 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
17696 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17697 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
17698 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
17699 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
17701 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17702 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
17703 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
17704 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17706 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17707 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
17708 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
17710 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
17711 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
17712 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
17713 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
17714 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
17715 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
17716 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17717 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
17718 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
17719 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
17722 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
17723 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
17724 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
17725 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
17728 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17729 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
17730 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
17731 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
17732 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
17733 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
17736 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17737 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
17738 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
17741 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
17742 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
17743 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
17744 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
17746 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17747 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
17748 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
17749 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
17752 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17753 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
17754 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
17755 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
17758 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
17759 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
17760 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
17763 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17764 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
17765 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17767 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
17768 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
17769 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
17771 o Minor features (geoip):
17772 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17775 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
17776 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
17777 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
17778 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
17779 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
17781 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
17782 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
17783 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
17784 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
17785 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
17786 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17788 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
17789 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
17790 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17792 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17793 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
17794 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
17795 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
17796 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
17797 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
17799 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17800 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
17801 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
17803 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
17804 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
17806 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
17807 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
17808 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
17809 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
17810 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
17811 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
17813 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
17814 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
17815 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
17819 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
17820 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
17823 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
17824 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
17825 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
17826 everyone to test this release.
17828 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
17829 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
17830 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
17831 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
17834 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
17835 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
17836 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
17837 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
17840 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
17841 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
17842 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
17843 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
17844 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17845 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
17846 download, stop waiting for certificates.
17847 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
17848 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
17849 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
17851 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
17852 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
17853 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
17854 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17855 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
17856 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17857 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
17858 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
17859 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17860 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
17861 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
17862 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
17864 o Minor features (geoip):
17865 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17868 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
17869 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
17870 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
17871 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
17872 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
17873 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17875 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
17876 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
17877 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
17878 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17879 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
17880 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17882 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17883 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
17884 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
17885 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
17888 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17889 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
17890 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
17891 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
17892 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
17893 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17894 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
17895 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
17897 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
17898 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
17899 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17901 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17902 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
17903 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
17904 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
17905 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17906 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
17907 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
17908 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17910 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
17911 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
17912 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
17915 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17916 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
17917 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17920 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
17921 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17922 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
17923 tickets 19287 and 19290.
17926 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
17927 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
17928 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
17929 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
17930 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
17933 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17934 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17935 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17936 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17937 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17938 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17939 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17940 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17941 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17943 o Minor features (geoip):
17944 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17948 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
17949 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
17950 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
17951 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
17952 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
17955 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
17956 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
17957 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
17958 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
17959 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
17960 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
17961 be a release candidate.
17963 o Major features (security fixes):
17964 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17965 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17966 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17967 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17968 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17969 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17970 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17971 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17973 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
17974 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
17975 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
17976 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
17977 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
17978 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
17979 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
17980 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
17981 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
17982 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
17983 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
17984 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
17985 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
17986 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
17989 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
17990 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
17991 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
17993 o Minor features (client, directory):
17994 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
17995 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
17996 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
17999 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
18000 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
18003 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
18004 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
18005 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
18008 o Minor features (geoip):
18009 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18012 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
18013 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
18014 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
18015 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
18016 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
18018 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
18019 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
18020 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
18021 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
18024 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
18025 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
18026 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
18027 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
18028 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
18030 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
18031 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
18032 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
18035 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
18036 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
18037 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
18038 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
18040 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
18041 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
18042 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
18043 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
18045 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
18046 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
18047 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
18048 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
18051 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18052 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
18053 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
18057 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
18058 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
18060 o Required libraries:
18061 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
18062 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
18063 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
18066 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
18067 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
18068 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
18069 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
18070 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
18071 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
18072 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
18073 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
18075 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
18076 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
18077 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
18078 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
18079 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
18080 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18082 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
18083 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
18084 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
18085 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
18086 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
18089 o Major features (circuit building, security):
18090 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
18091 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
18092 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
18094 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
18095 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
18097 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
18098 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
18099 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
18100 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
18101 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
18102 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
18103 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
18104 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
18105 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
18106 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
18107 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
18109 o Major features (resource management):
18110 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
18111 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
18112 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
18113 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
18114 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
18115 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
18117 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
18118 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
18119 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
18120 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
18122 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
18123 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
18124 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
18125 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18127 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18128 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
18129 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
18130 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
18131 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
18132 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
18134 o Minor features (security, TLS):
18135 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
18136 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
18137 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
18138 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
18140 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18141 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
18142 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
18143 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18145 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
18146 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18149 o Minor feature (port flags):
18150 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
18151 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
18152 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
18153 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
18154 18693; patch by "teor".
18156 o Minor features (directory authority):
18157 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
18158 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
18159 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
18161 o Minor features (testing):
18162 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
18163 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
18164 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
18165 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
18167 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
18168 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
18169 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
18170 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
18171 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
18172 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
18173 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
18174 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
18175 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
18177 o Minor features (Tor2web):
18178 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
18179 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
18180 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
18182 o Minor features (unit tests):
18183 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
18184 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
18185 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
18186 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
18187 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
18188 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
18189 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
18190 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
18192 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
18193 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
18194 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
18195 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
18196 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
18197 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
18198 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
18199 assertion as a test failure.
18201 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
18202 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
18203 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
18204 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
18205 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
18206 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
18208 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
18209 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
18210 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
18211 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
18212 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
18213 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
18214 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
18215 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
18216 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
18217 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
18218 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18219 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18220 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
18221 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
18222 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
18223 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18225 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18226 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
18227 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
18228 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
18229 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18230 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
18231 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
18234 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18235 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
18236 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
18237 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
18238 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
18239 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
18240 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
18243 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18244 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
18245 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
18246 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
18248 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
18249 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
18250 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
18252 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18253 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
18254 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
18255 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
18256 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
18257 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18259 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18260 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
18261 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
18262 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
18264 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
18265 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
18266 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
18268 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
18269 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
18270 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
18271 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
18272 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
18273 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
18275 o Minor bugfixes (options):
18276 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
18277 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
18279 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
18280 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
18281 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
18284 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
18285 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
18286 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
18287 19678. Patch by teor.
18289 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18290 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
18291 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
18292 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
18293 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
18294 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
18296 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
18297 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
18301 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
18302 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
18303 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
18304 who select public relays as their bridges.
18306 o Major bugfixes (crash):
18307 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
18308 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
18309 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
18310 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
18311 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18313 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
18314 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
18315 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
18316 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
18317 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
18320 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
18321 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
18322 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
18323 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
18325 o Minor features (geoip):
18326 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18330 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
18331 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
18332 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
18333 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
18334 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
18335 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
18337 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
18338 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
18339 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
18341 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
18342 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
18343 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
18344 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
18345 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
18346 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18348 o Major features (user interface):
18349 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
18350 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
18351 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
18353 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
18354 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
18355 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
18356 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
18358 o Minor features (config):
18359 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
18360 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
18362 o Minor features (geoip):
18363 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18366 o Minor features (user interface):
18367 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
18368 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
18371 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
18372 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
18373 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
18375 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18376 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
18377 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
18379 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
18380 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
18381 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
18382 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18384 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
18385 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
18386 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
18389 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
18390 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
18391 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
18392 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
18394 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18395 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
18396 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
18398 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
18399 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
18400 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
18402 o Deprecated features:
18403 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
18404 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
18405 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
18406 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
18407 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
18408 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
18409 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
18410 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
18411 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
18412 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
18413 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
18414 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
18415 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
18416 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
18417 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
18418 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
18419 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
18420 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
18421 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
18422 and TransListenAddress.
18425 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
18426 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
18429 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
18430 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
18433 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
18434 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
18435 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
18436 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
18437 encouraged to upgrade.
18439 o Directory authority changes:
18440 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
18441 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
18443 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
18444 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
18445 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
18446 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
18447 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
18448 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18450 o Minor features (geoip):
18451 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18454 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18455 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
18456 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
18459 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
18460 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
18461 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
18462 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
18465 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
18466 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
18467 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
18468 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
18469 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
18470 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
18471 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
18472 security, correctness, and performance.
18474 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
18476 o New system requirements:
18477 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
18478 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
18479 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
18480 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
18481 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
18482 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
18483 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
18484 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
18486 o Major features (build, hardening):
18487 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
18488 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
18489 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
18490 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
18491 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
18492 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
18493 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
18494 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
18495 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
18497 o Major features (compilation):
18498 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
18499 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
18500 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
18501 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
18503 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
18504 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
18505 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
18507 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
18508 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
18509 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
18510 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
18511 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
18512 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
18513 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
18514 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
18516 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
18517 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
18518 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
18519 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
18520 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
18521 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
18522 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
18524 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
18525 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
18526 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
18527 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
18528 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
18529 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
18530 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
18532 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
18533 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
18534 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
18535 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
18536 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
18538 o Minor features (build, hardening):
18539 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
18540 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
18541 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
18542 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
18543 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
18544 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
18545 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
18546 Closes ticket 18895.
18548 o Minor features (code safety):
18549 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
18550 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
18553 o Minor features (controller):
18554 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
18555 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
18556 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
18557 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
18558 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
18559 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
18560 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
18561 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
18563 o Minor features (directory authority):
18564 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
18565 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
18566 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
18567 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
18568 Implements ticket 18624.
18569 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
18570 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
18571 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
18574 o Minor features (hidden service):
18575 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
18576 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
18577 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
18580 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
18581 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
18582 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
18583 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
18584 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
18585 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
18586 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
18587 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
18588 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
18589 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
18590 Closes ticket 18365.
18592 o Minor features (logging):
18593 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
18594 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
18595 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
18596 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
18597 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
18598 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
18599 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
18600 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
18601 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
18602 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
18604 o Minor features (performance):
18605 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
18606 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
18607 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
18608 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
18609 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
18610 Closes ticket 18815.
18612 o Minor features (relay, usability):
18613 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
18614 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
18615 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
18616 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
18619 o Minor features (testing):
18620 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
18621 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18622 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
18623 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
18624 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
18625 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
18626 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
18627 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
18630 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
18631 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
18632 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
18633 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
18634 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18636 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18637 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
18638 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
18639 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
18640 patch from "cypherpunks".
18642 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
18643 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
18644 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18646 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18647 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
18648 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
18649 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18651 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18652 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
18653 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
18654 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18655 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
18656 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
18657 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
18658 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18660 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18661 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
18662 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18663 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
18664 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
18665 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
18666 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
18668 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
18669 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
18670 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
18673 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
18674 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
18675 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
18677 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
18678 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
18679 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
18682 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
18683 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
18684 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
18685 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
18688 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18689 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
18690 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
18692 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
18693 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
18694 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
18697 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18698 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
18699 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
18700 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
18701 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
18702 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
18703 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18704 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
18705 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
18708 o Minor bugfixes (time):
18709 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
18710 bugfix on all released tor versions.
18711 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
18712 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
18713 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
18714 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
18716 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
18717 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
18718 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
18719 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
18720 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
18722 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
18723 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18725 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18726 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
18728 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
18729 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
18730 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
18731 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
18734 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
18735 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
18737 o Removed features:
18738 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
18739 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
18740 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
18741 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
18742 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
18743 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
18744 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
18747 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
18748 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
18749 command-line options to enable them.
18750 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
18751 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
18754 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
18756 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
18758 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
18759 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
18760 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
18761 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
18762 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
18763 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
18765 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
18767 o Minor features (geoip):
18768 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18771 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18772 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
18773 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18775 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
18776 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
18777 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
18778 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
18780 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18781 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
18782 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
18783 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
18784 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
18785 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
18786 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
18787 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18790 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
18791 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
18792 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
18793 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
18794 against previous versions.
18796 o Directory authority changes:
18797 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
18799 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
18800 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
18801 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
18802 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
18804 o Minor features (build):
18805 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
18806 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
18807 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
18808 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18809 Patch from intrigeri.
18811 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
18812 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
18813 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
18816 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
18817 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
18818 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
18819 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
18820 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
18823 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18824 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
18825 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
18826 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
18827 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
18828 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
18829 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
18831 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
18832 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
18833 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
18834 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
18836 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
18837 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
18838 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
18839 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
18840 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
18841 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18843 o Fallback directory list:
18844 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
18845 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
18846 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
18847 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
18848 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
18849 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
18850 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
18851 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
18852 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
18855 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
18856 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
18857 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
18858 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
18861 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
18862 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
18863 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
18864 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18866 o Minor features (build):
18867 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
18868 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
18870 o Minor features (geoip):
18871 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18874 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18875 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
18876 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18878 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
18879 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
18880 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
18881 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
18885 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
18886 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
18887 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
18888 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
18889 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
18892 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
18893 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
18894 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
18895 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
18896 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18898 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
18899 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
18900 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
18901 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
18902 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
18903 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
18905 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
18906 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
18907 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
18908 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18910 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
18911 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
18912 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
18913 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
18914 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
18915 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
18916 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
18918 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
18919 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
18921 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
18922 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
18923 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
18925 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
18926 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
18927 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
18928 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
18929 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
18930 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18933 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
18934 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
18935 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
18938 o Major bugfixes (key management):
18939 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
18940 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
18941 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
18942 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
18943 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
18944 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
18947 o Major bugfixes (testing):
18948 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
18949 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18950 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
18951 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18953 o Minor features (clients):
18954 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
18955 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
18956 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
18958 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
18959 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
18960 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
18961 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
18962 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
18963 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
18964 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
18965 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
18966 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
18967 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
18969 o Minor features (geoip):
18970 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18973 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
18974 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
18975 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
18978 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
18979 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
18980 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
18982 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18983 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
18984 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
18986 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
18987 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
18989 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
18990 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
18993 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18994 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
18995 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
18996 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
18997 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18998 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
18999 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
19000 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19002 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
19003 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
19004 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
19005 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
19006 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19008 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
19009 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
19010 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
19011 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19012 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19013 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
19016 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
19017 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
19018 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
19019 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
19020 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
19021 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19023 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19024 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
19025 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
19026 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19027 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
19028 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19029 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
19030 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19032 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19033 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
19034 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
19035 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
19037 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
19038 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
19039 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
19040 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
19041 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
19042 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
19045 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19046 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
19047 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
19049 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
19050 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
19051 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19053 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19054 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
19055 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
19057 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19058 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
19059 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
19060 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19061 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
19062 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
19063 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19065 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
19066 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
19067 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
19068 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
19071 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
19072 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
19073 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
19074 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
19077 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
19078 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
19079 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
19080 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
19081 directory support should also be much improved.
19083 o New system requirements:
19084 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
19085 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
19086 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
19087 longer runs with, these versions.
19088 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
19089 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
19090 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
19092 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
19093 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
19094 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
19095 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
19096 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
19098 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
19099 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
19100 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
19101 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
19102 Reported by Guido Vranken.
19104 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
19105 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
19106 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
19107 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
19108 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
19110 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
19111 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
19112 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
19113 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19115 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
19116 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
19117 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19118 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
19119 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19121 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
19122 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
19123 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
19124 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
19125 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
19126 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19129 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
19130 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
19131 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19133 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
19134 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
19135 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
19136 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
19139 o Major bugfixes (voting):
19140 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
19141 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
19142 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
19143 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
19145 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
19146 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
19147 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
19148 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19149 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
19150 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
19151 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
19152 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
19153 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
19154 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19156 o Minor features (security, win32):
19157 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
19158 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
19161 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
19162 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
19163 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
19164 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
19166 o Minor features (build):
19167 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
19168 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
19169 Steven Chamberlain.
19171 o Minor features (code hardening):
19172 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
19173 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
19174 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
19177 o Minor features (crypto):
19178 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
19179 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
19182 o Minor features (geoip):
19183 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19186 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
19187 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
19188 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
19189 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
19190 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
19192 o Minor features (IPv6):
19193 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
19194 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
19195 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
19196 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
19197 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
19198 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
19199 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
19201 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19202 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
19203 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
19204 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
19205 while fixing 18548.
19207 o Minor features (robustness):
19208 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
19209 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
19210 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
19212 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
19213 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
19214 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
19215 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
19216 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
19217 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
19218 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
19221 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
19222 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
19223 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
19224 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
19225 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
19227 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
19228 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
19229 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
19230 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
19232 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19233 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
19234 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
19236 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
19237 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
19238 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19239 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
19240 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
19241 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
19243 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
19244 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
19245 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
19246 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
19247 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19249 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19250 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
19251 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
19252 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
19255 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
19256 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
19257 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19259 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
19260 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
19261 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
19262 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19264 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
19265 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
19266 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
19267 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
19268 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
19269 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19271 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
19272 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
19273 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
19274 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
19276 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
19277 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
19278 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
19279 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
19280 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
19282 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
19283 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
19284 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
19285 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
19286 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
19287 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
19288 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
19289 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
19290 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
19293 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
19294 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
19295 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
19296 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19298 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
19299 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
19300 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
19302 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19303 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
19304 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
19305 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19306 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
19307 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
19308 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19309 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
19310 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19312 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19313 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
19314 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
19315 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
19316 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
19317 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
19318 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
19319 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
19320 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
19321 Christian, patch by teor.
19323 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
19324 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
19325 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
19326 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
19328 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
19329 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
19330 patch by "cypherpunks".
19331 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
19333 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
19334 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19336 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
19337 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
19338 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
19339 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
19341 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
19342 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
19343 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
19346 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19347 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
19348 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
19349 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
19350 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
19351 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19353 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
19354 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
19355 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
19356 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
19358 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
19359 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
19360 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
19361 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
19363 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19364 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
19365 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
19366 17744. Patch from zerosion.
19367 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
19368 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
19369 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
19370 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
19371 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
19374 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
19375 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
19376 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
19378 o Removed features:
19379 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
19380 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
19381 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
19384 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
19386 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
19387 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
19390 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
19391 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
19392 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
19393 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
19394 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
19396 o Major features (security, Linux):
19397 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
19398 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
19399 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
19400 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
19401 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
19403 o Major features (directory system):
19404 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
19405 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
19406 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
19407 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
19408 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
19409 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
19410 "mikeperry" and "teor".
19411 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
19412 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
19413 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
19414 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
19415 15775. Patch by "teor".
19416 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
19417 "gsathya", and "karsten".
19418 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
19419 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
19420 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
19421 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
19422 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
19425 o Major key updates:
19426 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
19427 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
19430 o Minor features (security, clock):
19431 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
19432 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
19433 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
19434 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
19436 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
19437 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
19438 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
19439 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
19440 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
19441 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19443 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
19444 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
19445 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
19446 Implements ticket 17026.
19447 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
19448 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
19449 Implements feature 17986.
19450 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
19451 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
19452 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
19453 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
19454 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
19455 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
19458 o Minor features (security, RNG):
19459 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
19460 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
19461 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
19462 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
19463 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
19464 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
19465 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
19466 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
19467 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
19468 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
19471 o Minor features (accounting):
19472 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
19473 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
19474 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
19475 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
19477 o Minor features (build):
19478 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
19479 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
19480 patch from "cypherpunks."
19481 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
19482 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
19483 17549, 17921, and 17984.
19485 o Minor features (controller):
19486 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
19487 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
19488 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
19489 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
19490 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
19491 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
19492 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
19493 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
19496 o Minor features (crypto):
19497 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
19499 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
19500 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
19501 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
19502 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
19503 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
19504 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
19505 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
19506 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19508 o Minor features (directory downloads):
19509 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
19510 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
19511 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
19512 17864; patch by "teor".
19513 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
19514 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
19515 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
19517 o Minor features (geoip):
19518 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19521 o Minor features (IPv6):
19522 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
19523 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
19524 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
19525 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
19526 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
19527 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
19528 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
19529 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
19530 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
19531 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
19532 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
19534 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
19535 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19536 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
19537 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
19539 o Minor features (logging):
19540 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
19541 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
19542 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
19543 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
19546 o Minor features (portability):
19547 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
19548 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
19550 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
19551 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
19552 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
19553 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
19554 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
19556 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
19557 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
19558 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
19559 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
19560 Resolves ticket 17951.
19562 o Minor features (replay cache):
19563 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
19564 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
19566 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
19567 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
19568 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
19569 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
19570 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
19571 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
19572 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
19573 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
19574 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
19575 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
19576 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
19577 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
19578 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
19579 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
19581 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
19582 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
19583 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
19584 from "unixninja92".
19586 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19587 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
19588 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
19589 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19590 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
19591 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
19593 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
19596 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19597 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
19598 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
19599 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19600 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
19601 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
19602 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19603 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
19605 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
19606 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
19607 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
19608 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
19609 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
19610 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
19611 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19612 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
19614 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
19615 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
19617 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
19618 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
19619 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19621 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19622 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
19623 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
19624 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19626 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
19627 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
19628 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19630 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19631 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
19632 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19634 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19635 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
19636 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
19637 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
19638 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
19640 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
19641 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19643 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19644 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
19645 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
19648 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
19649 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
19650 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
19651 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
19652 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
19653 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
19655 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
19656 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
19657 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
19658 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
19659 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
19661 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
19662 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
19663 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
19666 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
19667 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
19668 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
19669 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19670 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
19671 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
19672 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
19673 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
19676 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19677 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
19678 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
19679 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
19680 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
19681 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19682 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
19683 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
19684 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
19685 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
19687 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
19688 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19690 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19691 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
19692 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
19693 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
19694 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
19695 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
19696 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
19697 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
19698 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
19699 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
19701 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
19702 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
19703 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
19704 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
19706 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
19707 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
19708 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
19709 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
19710 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
19712 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
19713 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
19716 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
19717 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
19718 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
19719 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
19720 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
19721 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
19722 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
19725 o Removed features:
19726 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
19727 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
19728 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
19729 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
19730 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
19733 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
19734 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
19735 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
19736 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
19737 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
19738 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
19739 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
19740 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
19741 portion of ticket 16831.
19742 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
19743 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
19744 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
19746 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
19747 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
19750 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
19751 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
19752 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
19754 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
19755 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
19756 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
19757 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
19758 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
19759 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
19762 o Minor features (geoip):
19763 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19766 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19767 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
19768 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
19769 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
19770 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
19771 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
19773 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
19774 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
19775 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
19776 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
19777 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
19778 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
19779 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
19780 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19781 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
19782 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19785 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
19786 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
19787 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
19788 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
19789 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
19790 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
19791 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
19792 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
19793 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
19794 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
19795 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
19796 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
19797 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
19798 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
19799 that would make him proud.
19801 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
19803 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
19804 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
19805 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
19806 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
19807 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
19808 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
19809 of Tor invoke which others.
19811 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
19814 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
19815 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
19816 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
19817 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
19818 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
19819 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
19820 release will the the official stable release.
19822 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
19823 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
19824 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
19825 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
19826 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
19829 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
19830 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
19831 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19833 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
19834 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
19835 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
19836 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
19837 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19838 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
19839 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
19841 o Minor features (geoIP):
19842 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19845 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19846 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
19847 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
19848 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
19849 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19850 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
19851 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
19853 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19854 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
19855 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
19858 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
19859 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
19860 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
19861 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
19863 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19864 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
19865 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
19866 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
19867 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
19868 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
19869 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
19870 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
19871 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
19872 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
19873 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
19877 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
19878 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
19882 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
19883 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
19884 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
19885 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
19886 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
19888 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
19889 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
19890 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
19891 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
19893 o Major features (security, hidden services):
19894 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
19895 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
19896 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
19897 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
19898 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
19899 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
19900 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
19902 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
19903 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
19904 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
19905 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
19906 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
19907 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
19910 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
19911 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
19912 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
19913 available. Implements ticket 16535.
19914 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
19915 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
19918 o Major features (performance testing):
19919 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
19920 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
19921 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
19923 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
19924 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
19925 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
19926 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
19928 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
19929 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
19930 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
19931 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
19932 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
19933 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
19935 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
19936 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
19938 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
19939 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
19940 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
19941 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
19942 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
19944 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
19945 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
19946 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
19947 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
19948 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
19949 own. Implements feature 15482.
19950 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
19951 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
19953 o Minor features (compilation):
19954 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
19955 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
19956 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
19957 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
19958 which started requiring ECC.
19960 o Minor features (geoip):
19961 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19964 o Minor features (hidden services):
19965 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
19966 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
19967 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
19968 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
19969 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
19970 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
19971 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
19972 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
19974 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
19975 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
19976 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
19979 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
19980 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
19981 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
19982 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
19984 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
19985 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
19986 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
19987 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
19988 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
19990 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
19991 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
19992 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
19993 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
19994 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19995 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
19996 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
19997 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
19998 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
19999 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
20000 Related to ticket 16069.
20001 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
20002 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
20003 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
20004 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
20005 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
20006 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20008 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
20009 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
20010 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20011 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
20012 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
20014 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
20015 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
20016 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20018 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
20019 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
20020 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
20021 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20023 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20024 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
20025 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
20026 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
20027 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20029 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
20030 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
20031 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
20032 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
20033 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
20034 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
20035 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
20036 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
20037 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
20038 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
20039 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
20042 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
20043 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
20044 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20046 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20047 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
20048 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20049 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
20050 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20052 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
20053 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
20054 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
20055 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
20057 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20058 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
20059 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
20061 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
20062 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20063 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
20064 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
20065 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
20066 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20067 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
20068 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20070 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
20071 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
20072 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
20073 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
20074 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
20076 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
20077 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
20080 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20081 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
20082 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
20083 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
20084 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
20085 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
20086 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
20087 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
20088 function. Closes ticket 16763.
20089 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
20090 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
20091 suite of other microdesc functions.
20092 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
20093 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
20094 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
20095 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
20096 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
20097 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
20098 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
20099 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
20100 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
20101 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
20103 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
20104 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
20106 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
20109 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
20110 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
20111 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
20112 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
20116 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
20117 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
20118 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
20119 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
20120 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
20121 Closes ticket 13338.
20122 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
20123 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
20124 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
20125 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
20126 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
20127 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
20130 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
20131 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
20132 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
20133 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
20134 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
20135 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
20136 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
20138 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
20139 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
20140 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
20141 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
20142 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
20143 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
20144 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
20145 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
20146 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
20147 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
20148 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
20149 network before we begin.
20150 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
20151 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
20152 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
20153 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
20154 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
20155 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
20156 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
20157 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
20160 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
20161 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
20162 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
20163 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
20164 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
20165 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
20167 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
20168 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
20169 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
20171 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
20172 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
20173 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
20174 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
20175 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
20176 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
20177 Implements part of ticket 12498.
20178 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
20179 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
20180 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
20181 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
20182 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
20183 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
20184 part of ticket 12498.
20185 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
20186 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
20187 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
20188 key). Closes ticket 13642.
20190 o Major features (Hidden services):
20191 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
20192 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
20193 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
20194 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
20195 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
20197 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
20198 introduction points, which used to change the number of
20199 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
20200 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
20202 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
20203 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
20204 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
20205 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
20206 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
20207 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
20209 o Major features (performance):
20210 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
20211 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
20212 Implements ticket 16467.
20213 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
20214 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
20215 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
20216 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
20218 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
20219 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
20220 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
20221 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
20222 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
20223 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
20225 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
20226 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
20227 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
20228 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
20229 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
20230 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
20231 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
20232 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
20235 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20236 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
20237 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
20238 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
20239 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
20240 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
20241 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
20244 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
20245 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
20246 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
20247 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
20248 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
20249 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
20251 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
20252 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
20253 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
20254 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
20255 by "cypherpunks_backup".
20256 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
20257 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
20258 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
20261 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
20262 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
20263 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
20264 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
20265 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
20266 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
20267 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
20269 o Minor features (client):
20270 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
20271 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
20272 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
20274 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
20275 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
20276 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
20277 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20278 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
20279 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
20280 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
20283 o Minor features (control protocol):
20284 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
20285 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
20287 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20288 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
20289 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
20290 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
20291 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
20292 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
20294 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
20295 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20296 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20298 o Minor features (hidden services):
20299 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
20300 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
20301 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
20302 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
20305 o Minor features (portability):
20306 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
20307 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
20308 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
20310 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
20311 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
20312 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
20313 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
20315 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20316 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
20317 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
20318 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20320 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
20321 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
20322 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
20323 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
20324 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
20325 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
20327 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
20328 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
20329 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
20330 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20331 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
20332 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
20333 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20335 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20336 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
20337 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20339 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
20340 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
20341 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
20342 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
20344 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
20345 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
20346 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
20347 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
20349 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
20350 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
20353 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
20354 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
20355 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
20356 from "cypherpunks".
20358 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
20359 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
20360 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20361 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
20362 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
20363 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
20365 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
20366 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
20367 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20369 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
20370 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
20371 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
20373 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
20374 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
20375 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20376 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
20377 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20378 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
20379 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
20380 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
20381 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20383 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20384 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
20385 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
20386 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
20387 haven't supported that in ages.
20388 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
20389 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
20390 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
20391 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
20394 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
20395 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
20396 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
20397 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
20398 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
20399 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
20401 o Removed features:
20402 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
20403 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
20404 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
20405 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
20406 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
20407 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
20408 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
20409 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
20410 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
20411 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
20412 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
20413 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
20414 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
20415 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
20416 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
20417 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
20418 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
20421 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
20422 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
20423 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
20424 Closes ticket 15817.
20425 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
20426 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
20428 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
20429 default as a part of "make check".
20430 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
20431 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
20432 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
20433 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
20437 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
20438 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
20439 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
20440 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
20441 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
20442 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
20444 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
20445 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
20446 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
20447 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
20448 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
20449 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
20450 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
20451 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
20454 o Major bugfixes (stability):
20455 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
20456 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
20457 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
20458 by "cypherpunks_backup".
20459 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
20460 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
20461 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
20464 o Minor features (geoip):
20465 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20466 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20468 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
20469 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
20470 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
20471 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
20472 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
20473 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
20475 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20476 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
20477 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
20478 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
20481 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
20482 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
20483 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
20484 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
20485 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
20487 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20488 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
20489 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
20490 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
20491 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
20494 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
20495 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
20496 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
20497 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
20498 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
20499 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
20500 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
20502 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20503 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
20504 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
20505 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
20507 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20508 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
20509 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
20510 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
20511 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
20512 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
20515 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
20516 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
20517 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
20520 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
20521 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
20522 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
20523 authorities should upgrade.
20525 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
20526 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
20527 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
20528 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
20531 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
20532 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
20533 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
20536 o Minor features (geoip):
20537 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20538 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20542 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
20543 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
20544 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
20545 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
20546 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
20547 the hidden services subsystem.
20549 o New system requirements:
20550 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
20551 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
20554 o Major features (controller):
20555 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
20556 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
20558 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
20559 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
20560 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
20561 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
20562 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
20563 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
20564 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
20566 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20567 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
20568 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
20569 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
20572 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
20573 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
20574 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
20575 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
20576 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
20578 o Minor features (command-line interface):
20579 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
20580 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20581 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
20582 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
20584 o Minor features (controller):
20585 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
20586 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
20587 present. Implements ticket 14840.
20588 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
20589 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
20590 Closes ticket 14845.
20591 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
20592 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
20593 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
20595 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
20596 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
20597 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
20598 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
20600 o Minor features (geoip):
20601 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20602 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20605 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
20606 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
20607 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
20608 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
20609 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
20610 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
20611 Closes ticket 15745.
20613 o Minor features (logging):
20614 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
20615 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
20618 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
20619 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
20620 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
20621 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
20623 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
20624 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
20625 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
20626 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
20627 Resolves ticket 15435.
20629 o Minor features (testing):
20630 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
20631 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
20632 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
20633 files. Closes ticket 15180.
20634 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
20635 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
20636 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
20637 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
20638 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
20639 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
20640 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
20641 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
20642 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
20643 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
20644 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
20645 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
20647 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20648 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
20649 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
20652 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
20653 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
20654 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
20656 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
20657 stderr, not stdout.
20659 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
20660 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
20661 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
20662 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
20663 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
20664 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
20665 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
20666 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20668 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20669 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
20670 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
20672 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
20673 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
20674 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
20677 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
20678 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
20679 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
20681 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
20682 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20684 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
20685 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
20686 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
20687 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
20690 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
20691 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
20692 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
20693 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
20694 recent enough Clang.
20696 o Minor bugfixes (network):
20697 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
20698 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
20699 unsuitable for public communications.
20701 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
20702 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
20703 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
20704 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
20705 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
20706 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
20708 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
20709 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
20710 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
20711 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
20712 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
20713 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
20714 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
20715 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
20717 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20718 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
20719 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
20721 - Set the severity correctly when testing
20722 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
20723 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
20724 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
20725 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
20727 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20728 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
20729 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
20731 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
20732 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
20733 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
20734 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
20735 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
20738 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
20739 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
20741 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
20742 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20743 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
20744 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
20745 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
20748 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
20749 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
20750 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
20751 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
20752 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
20753 Closes ticket 14922.
20755 o Removed features:
20756 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
20757 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
20758 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
20759 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
20760 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
20761 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
20762 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
20763 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
20764 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
20765 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
20766 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
20769 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
20770 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
20771 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
20772 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
20773 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
20775 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
20776 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
20778 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
20779 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
20780 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
20781 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
20782 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
20783 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
20784 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
20786 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
20787 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
20788 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
20789 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
20790 Resolves ticket 15515.
20793 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
20794 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
20795 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
20796 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
20797 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
20799 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
20800 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
20802 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
20803 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
20804 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
20805 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
20806 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
20807 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
20808 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
20810 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
20811 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
20812 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
20813 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
20814 Resolves ticket 15515.
20817 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
20818 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
20819 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
20820 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
20821 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
20823 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
20824 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
20826 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
20827 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
20828 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
20829 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
20830 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
20831 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
20832 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
20834 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
20835 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
20836 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
20837 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
20838 Resolves ticket 15515.
20839 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
20840 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
20841 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
20845 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
20846 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
20848 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
20849 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
20850 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
20851 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
20852 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
20853 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
20854 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
20855 bugs should be addressed.
20857 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20858 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
20859 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
20860 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20862 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
20863 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
20864 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
20866 o Major bugfixes (client):
20867 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
20868 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
20871 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
20872 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
20873 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
20874 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
20875 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
20876 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20878 o Major bugfixes (portability):
20879 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
20880 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
20883 o Minor features (heartbeat):
20884 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
20885 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
20886 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
20887 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
20889 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20890 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
20891 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
20894 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
20895 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
20897 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
20898 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
20899 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
20901 o Directory authority changes:
20902 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
20903 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
20904 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
20905 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
20906 closes ticket 14487.
20908 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
20909 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
20910 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
20913 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
20914 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
20915 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
20916 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
20917 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
20918 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
20919 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
20920 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20922 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
20923 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
20924 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
20925 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
20927 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20928 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
20929 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
20930 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
20932 o Minor features (controller):
20933 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
20934 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
20935 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
20937 o Minor features (geoip):
20938 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20939 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20942 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
20943 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
20944 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
20945 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20946 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
20947 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20949 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20950 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
20951 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
20952 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
20954 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
20955 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
20956 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
20957 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
20958 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
20959 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
20960 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
20961 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20963 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
20964 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
20965 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20967 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
20968 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
20969 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
20970 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
20971 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
20975 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
20976 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
20977 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
20980 o Directory authority changes:
20981 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
20982 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
20983 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
20984 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
20985 closes ticket 14487.
20987 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
20988 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
20989 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
20990 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
20992 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
20993 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
20994 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
20995 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
20996 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
20997 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
20998 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
20999 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21001 o Minor features (geoip):
21002 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21003 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21006 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
21007 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
21008 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
21009 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
21010 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
21012 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
21013 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
21014 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
21017 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
21018 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
21019 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
21020 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
21021 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21022 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
21023 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
21024 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21026 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
21027 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
21028 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
21031 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21032 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
21033 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
21035 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
21036 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
21037 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
21038 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
21039 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
21041 o Minor features (controller):
21042 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
21043 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
21044 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
21046 o Minor features (geoip):
21047 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21048 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21051 o Minor features (logs):
21052 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
21055 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
21056 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
21057 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
21058 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21059 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
21060 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
21061 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
21062 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
21063 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
21065 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21066 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
21068 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
21071 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21072 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
21073 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
21075 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
21076 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
21077 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
21078 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21079 from "cypherpunks".
21080 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
21081 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
21084 o Directory authority IP change:
21085 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21086 closes ticket 14487.
21089 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
21090 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
21091 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
21095 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
21096 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
21097 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
21098 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
21099 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
21100 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
21102 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
21103 the next version will be a release candidate.
21105 o Deprecated versions:
21106 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
21107 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
21109 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
21110 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
21111 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
21112 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
21113 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
21114 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
21116 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
21117 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
21118 Implements ticket 11485.
21120 o Major features (changed defaults):
21121 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
21122 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
21123 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
21124 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
21125 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
21126 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
21128 o Major features (directory system):
21129 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
21130 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
21131 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
21132 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
21133 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
21134 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
21135 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
21136 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
21137 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
21138 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
21139 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
21140 227. Closes ticket 10395.
21142 o Major features (guards):
21143 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
21144 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
21145 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
21146 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
21147 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
21149 o Major features (performance):
21150 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
21151 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
21152 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
21153 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
21154 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
21155 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
21156 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
21157 Implements ticket 9682.
21159 o Major features (relay):
21160 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
21161 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
21162 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
21164 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
21165 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
21166 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
21167 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21169 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
21170 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
21171 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
21172 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
21173 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
21174 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
21175 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
21177 o Minor features (build):
21178 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
21179 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
21180 Resolves ticket 13037.
21182 o Minor features (controller):
21183 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
21184 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
21186 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
21187 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
21188 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
21189 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
21190 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
21191 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
21193 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
21194 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
21195 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
21196 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
21197 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
21198 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
21199 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
21200 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
21201 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
21202 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
21204 o Minor features (geoip):
21205 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
21206 GeoLite2 Country database.
21208 o Minor features (guard nodes):
21209 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
21210 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
21211 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
21213 o Minor features (hidden service):
21214 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
21215 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
21216 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
21217 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
21218 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
21219 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
21220 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
21221 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
21223 o Minor features (interface):
21224 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
21225 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
21226 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
21228 o Minor features (logging):
21229 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
21230 Resolves ticket 6852.
21231 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
21232 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
21233 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
21235 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
21236 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
21238 o Minor features (stability):
21239 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
21240 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
21243 o Minor features (systemd):
21244 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
21245 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
21247 o Minor features (testing networks):
21248 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
21249 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
21250 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
21251 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
21252 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
21253 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
21255 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
21256 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
21257 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
21258 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
21259 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
21261 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
21262 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
21263 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
21264 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
21265 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
21267 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
21268 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
21269 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
21270 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21271 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
21272 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
21273 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
21274 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21276 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
21277 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
21278 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
21279 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21280 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
21281 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21282 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
21283 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
21285 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
21286 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
21287 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
21290 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
21291 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
21292 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
21293 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
21294 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21296 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
21297 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
21298 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
21299 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
21300 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21302 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21303 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
21304 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
21305 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
21306 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
21307 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
21308 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
21309 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
21310 Addresses ticket 14188.
21311 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
21312 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
21313 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
21314 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
21315 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
21316 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
21317 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
21318 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
21319 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21321 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21322 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
21323 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
21324 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
21325 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
21326 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21327 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
21328 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21330 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
21331 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
21332 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
21333 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
21334 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
21335 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
21336 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
21337 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21338 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
21339 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21340 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
21341 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
21342 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21344 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
21345 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
21346 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
21347 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
21348 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
21349 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
21350 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
21351 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
21352 state, and key files.
21353 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
21354 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
21357 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21358 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
21359 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
21360 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
21361 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21362 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
21363 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
21364 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21365 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
21366 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
21367 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21369 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
21370 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
21371 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21372 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
21374 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
21375 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
21377 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
21378 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
21379 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
21380 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
21381 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
21382 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21384 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
21385 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
21386 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
21387 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21388 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
21389 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
21390 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21391 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
21392 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
21393 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21395 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21396 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
21397 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
21399 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
21400 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
21402 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
21403 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
21404 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
21405 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
21406 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21408 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
21409 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
21410 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
21411 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
21414 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
21415 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
21416 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
21419 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21420 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
21421 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21423 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
21424 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
21425 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
21426 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
21427 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
21428 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
21429 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
21431 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
21432 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
21435 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
21436 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
21437 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
21439 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
21440 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
21441 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
21444 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21445 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
21446 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
21447 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
21448 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
21449 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
21450 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
21451 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
21452 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
21454 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
21455 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
21457 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
21461 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
21462 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
21463 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
21464 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
21465 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
21466 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
21468 o Downgraded warnings:
21469 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
21470 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
21472 o Removed features:
21473 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
21474 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
21475 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
21476 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
21477 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
21481 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
21482 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21483 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
21484 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
21485 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
21486 (existing behavior).
21487 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
21488 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
21489 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
21490 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
21491 Closes ticket 14107.
21492 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
21493 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21494 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
21495 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
21497 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
21498 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
21499 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21502 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
21503 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
21504 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
21505 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
21506 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
21507 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
21509 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
21510 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
21511 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
21512 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
21514 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
21515 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
21516 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
21517 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
21518 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
21519 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
21521 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
21522 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
21523 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
21524 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
21525 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
21526 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
21527 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
21530 o Major features (hidden services):
21531 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
21532 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
21533 Closes ticket 13667.
21534 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
21535 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
21536 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
21537 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
21538 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
21539 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
21540 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
21541 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
21542 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
21543 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
21544 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
21546 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
21547 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
21548 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
21549 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
21550 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
21551 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
21554 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21555 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
21556 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
21557 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
21558 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
21559 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
21561 o Directory authority changes:
21562 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21563 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21564 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21566 o Major removed features:
21567 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
21568 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
21569 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
21570 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
21572 o Minor features (client):
21573 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
21574 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
21575 Resolves ticket 13315.
21577 o Minor features (controller):
21578 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
21579 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
21582 o Minor features (geoip):
21583 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21586 o Minor features (hidden services):
21587 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
21588 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
21589 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
21590 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
21591 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
21592 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
21594 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
21595 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
21596 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
21598 o Minor features (systemd):
21599 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
21600 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
21601 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
21602 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
21604 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
21605 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
21606 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
21607 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
21608 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
21611 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
21612 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
21613 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
21614 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
21615 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
21617 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
21618 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
21619 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
21622 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
21623 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
21624 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
21625 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
21626 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
21628 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
21629 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
21630 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21632 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21633 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
21634 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
21635 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
21636 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
21638 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
21639 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
21642 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21643 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
21644 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
21645 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
21646 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
21647 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
21648 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
21649 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
21650 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
21651 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
21652 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
21653 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
21654 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
21655 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
21658 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21659 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
21660 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
21661 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
21662 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
21663 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
21665 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
21666 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
21667 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
21668 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
21670 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
21671 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
21673 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
21674 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
21675 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
21676 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
21679 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
21680 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
21681 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
21682 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
21683 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
21684 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
21686 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
21687 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
21688 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
21689 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
21690 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21691 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
21692 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
21693 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
21694 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
21695 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
21696 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
21697 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
21698 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
21699 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
21700 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
21701 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
21702 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
21703 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
21704 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
21705 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21706 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
21707 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
21708 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
21709 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
21710 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
21711 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
21712 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
21713 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21714 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
21715 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
21716 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
21717 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
21719 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
21720 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
21721 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
21722 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
21723 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21725 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21726 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
21727 with a function instead.
21728 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
21729 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
21730 Closes ticket 13172.
21731 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
21732 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
21733 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
21734 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
21735 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
21736 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
21737 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
21738 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
21739 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
21740 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
21741 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
21742 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
21746 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
21747 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
21748 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
21749 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
21750 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
21751 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
21752 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
21753 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
21754 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
21755 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
21756 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
21757 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
21760 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
21761 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
21762 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
21763 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
21764 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
21765 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
21767 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
21771 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
21772 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
21773 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
21774 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
21775 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
21776 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
21777 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
21778 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
21779 of introducing infinite download loops.
21781 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
21782 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
21783 with 0.2.5.x for now.
21785 o New compiler and system requirements:
21786 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
21787 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
21788 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
21789 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
21791 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
21792 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
21793 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
21794 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
21795 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
21796 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
21797 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
21798 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
21799 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
21801 o Removed platform support:
21802 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
21803 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
21804 Closes ticket 11446.
21806 o Major features (bridges):
21807 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
21808 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
21809 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
21812 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
21813 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
21814 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
21815 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
21818 o Major features (directory system):
21819 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
21820 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
21821 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
21822 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
21824 o Major features (sample torrc):
21825 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
21826 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
21827 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
21828 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
21829 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
21830 generally useful "sample torrc".
21832 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
21833 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
21834 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21836 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
21837 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
21838 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
21839 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
21840 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
21842 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
21843 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
21844 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
21845 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
21847 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
21848 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
21849 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
21850 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
21851 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
21852 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
21855 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
21856 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
21857 document. Implements feature 10427.
21859 o Minor features (client):
21860 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
21861 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
21862 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
21863 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
21865 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21866 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
21867 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
21868 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
21869 argument more than once.
21870 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
21871 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
21872 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
21873 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
21874 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
21875 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
21877 o Minor features (logging):
21878 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
21879 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
21880 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
21881 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
21882 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
21883 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
21884 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
21885 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
21886 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
21888 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
21889 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
21890 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
21891 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
21893 o Minor features (relay):
21894 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
21895 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
21896 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
21898 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
21899 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
21900 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
21901 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
21903 o Minor features (testing networks):
21904 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
21905 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
21906 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
21907 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
21908 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
21911 o Minor features (validation):
21912 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
21913 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
21914 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
21915 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
21916 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
21917 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
21918 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
21919 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
21921 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
21922 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
21923 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
21924 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21926 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
21927 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
21928 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
21929 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
21931 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
21932 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
21933 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
21935 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
21936 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
21937 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
21939 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
21940 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21941 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
21942 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
21943 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
21944 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
21945 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
21947 o Minor bugfixes (client):
21948 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
21949 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
21950 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21951 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
21952 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21953 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
21954 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
21955 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
21957 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
21958 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
21959 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
21960 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
21961 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
21963 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
21964 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
21965 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
21967 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21968 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
21969 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
21970 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
21971 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
21973 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
21974 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
21975 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
21976 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21977 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
21978 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
21979 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21980 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
21981 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
21982 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
21983 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
21986 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
21987 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
21988 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
21989 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
21990 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21992 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
21993 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
21994 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21995 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
21996 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
21999 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
22000 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
22001 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22002 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
22003 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
22004 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22006 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
22007 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
22008 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
22009 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
22011 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
22012 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
22013 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
22014 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22016 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
22017 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
22018 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
22019 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
22022 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
22023 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
22024 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22027 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
22028 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22029 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
22030 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
22031 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
22034 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22035 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
22036 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
22038 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
22039 Resolves ticket 12205.
22040 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
22041 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
22042 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
22043 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
22045 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
22046 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
22047 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
22049 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
22050 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
22052 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
22053 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
22054 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
22055 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
22056 or_options_t structure.
22059 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
22060 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
22061 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
22062 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
22065 o Removed features:
22066 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
22067 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
22068 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
22069 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
22070 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
22071 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
22072 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
22073 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
22074 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
22076 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
22077 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
22079 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
22080 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
22081 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
22082 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
22083 anymore, and ignore it.
22086 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
22087 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
22088 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
22089 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
22090 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
22091 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
22092 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
22093 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
22094 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
22095 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
22096 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
22097 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
22099 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
22100 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
22101 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
22103 o Distribution (systemd):
22104 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
22105 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
22106 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
22107 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
22108 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
22110 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
22111 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
22113 o Removed features (directory authorities):
22114 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
22115 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
22116 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
22117 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
22118 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
22119 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
22120 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
22121 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
22122 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
22124 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
22125 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
22126 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
22127 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
22130 o Testing (test-network.sh):
22131 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
22132 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
22134 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
22136 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
22137 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
22138 Partially implements ticket 13161.
22141 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
22142 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
22144 It adds several new security features, including improved
22145 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
22146 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
22147 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
22148 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
22149 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
22150 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
22151 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
22152 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
22153 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
22154 and features mentioned below.
22156 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
22157 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
22159 o Deprecated versions:
22160 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
22161 attention for some while.
22164 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
22165 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
22166 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
22167 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
22168 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
22169 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
22171 o Major security fixes:
22172 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
22173 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
22174 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
22176 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
22177 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
22178 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
22179 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
22182 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
22183 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
22184 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
22185 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22187 o Compilation fixes:
22188 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
22189 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
22190 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
22192 o Downgraded warnings:
22193 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
22194 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
22197 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
22198 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
22199 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
22200 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
22201 (which does affect Tor).
22203 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
22204 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
22205 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
22206 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
22208 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
22209 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
22210 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
22211 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
22214 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
22215 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
22216 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
22217 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
22218 the directory authorities.
22221 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
22222 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
22223 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
22224 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
22225 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
22226 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
22227 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
22228 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
22229 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
22230 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
22231 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
22232 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22234 o Directory authority changes:
22235 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22238 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
22239 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
22240 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
22241 the directory authorities.
22244 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
22245 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
22246 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
22247 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
22248 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
22249 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
22250 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
22251 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
22252 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
22253 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
22254 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
22255 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22257 o Directory authority changes:
22258 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
22260 o Minor features (geoip):
22261 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22265 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
22266 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
22267 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
22268 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
22269 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
22271 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
22272 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
22273 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
22274 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
22275 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
22276 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
22277 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
22278 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
22279 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
22280 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
22281 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
22282 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
22283 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
22284 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22285 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
22286 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
22288 o Major bugfixes (relay):
22289 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
22290 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22291 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
22292 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
22293 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
22294 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
22295 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22297 o Minor features (bridge):
22298 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
22299 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
22301 o Minor features (geoip):
22302 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22305 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22306 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
22307 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
22308 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
22309 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
22310 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
22311 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22312 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
22313 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
22314 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
22315 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
22316 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
22317 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
22318 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
22319 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
22321 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
22322 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
22323 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
22324 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
22325 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
22327 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22328 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
22329 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22330 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
22331 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
22334 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22335 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
22336 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
22337 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
22338 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
22339 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
22340 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
22341 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22342 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
22343 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
22344 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
22347 o Distribution (systemd):
22348 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
22349 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
22350 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
22351 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
22352 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
22353 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
22354 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
22355 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
22356 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
22360 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
22361 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
22363 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
22367 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
22368 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
22369 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
22370 us closer to a release candidate.
22372 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
22373 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
22374 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
22375 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
22376 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
22378 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
22379 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
22380 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
22381 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
22382 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
22383 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
22384 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
22385 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
22386 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
22390 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
22391 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
22392 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
22393 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
22394 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
22395 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
22396 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
22397 to build circuits".
22400 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
22401 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
22402 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
22403 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
22404 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
22405 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
22406 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
22407 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22409 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
22411 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
22412 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
22413 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
22414 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
22415 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
22416 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
22417 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
22418 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
22419 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
22420 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22423 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
22424 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
22425 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
22426 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
22428 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
22429 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
22430 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
22433 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
22434 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
22435 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
22436 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
22439 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
22440 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
22441 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
22442 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
22443 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
22444 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
22445 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
22446 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
22447 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
22448 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
22451 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
22452 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
22453 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
22454 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
22455 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
22456 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
22457 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
22458 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
22462 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
22463 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
22464 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
22465 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
22466 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
22467 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
22468 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
22469 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
22470 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22471 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
22472 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
22473 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
22474 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
22477 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22481 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
22482 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
22483 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
22484 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
22485 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
22486 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
22489 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
22490 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
22491 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
22492 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
22493 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
22494 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
22495 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
22496 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
22497 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
22498 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
22499 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
22500 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
22501 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22503 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
22504 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
22505 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
22506 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
22509 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
22510 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
22511 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
22513 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
22514 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
22515 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
22516 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
22517 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
22518 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
22519 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
22520 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
22521 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
22522 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
22523 router's identity is not forgeable.
22525 o Major bugfixes (relay):
22526 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
22527 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
22528 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
22529 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
22530 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
22531 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
22532 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
22533 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
22534 bugfix on every version of Tor.
22536 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
22537 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
22538 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
22539 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
22542 o Minor features (diagnostic):
22543 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
22544 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
22545 help diagnose bug 7164.
22546 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
22547 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
22548 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
22549 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
22550 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
22552 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
22553 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
22554 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
22555 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
22556 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
22557 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
22558 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
22560 o Minor features (security, memory management):
22561 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
22562 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
22563 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
22564 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
22565 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
22566 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
22568 o Minor features (security):
22569 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
22570 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
22571 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
22572 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
22574 o Minor features (build):
22575 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
22576 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
22577 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
22579 o Minor features (other):
22580 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22583 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
22584 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
22585 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
22586 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
22587 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22589 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
22590 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
22591 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
22592 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
22593 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
22594 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
22595 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
22596 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
22597 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
22598 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
22599 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
22600 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
22602 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22603 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
22604 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22605 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
22606 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
22607 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
22608 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
22609 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
22610 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
22611 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
22612 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22613 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
22614 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
22615 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
22616 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
22617 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
22618 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
22619 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
22622 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
22623 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
22624 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
22625 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
22626 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
22627 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
22628 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22630 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
22631 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
22632 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22633 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
22634 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22635 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
22636 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22637 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
22638 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
22640 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
22641 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
22643 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
22644 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
22646 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
22647 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
22648 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
22649 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
22650 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
22651 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22652 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
22653 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
22654 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
22656 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
22657 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
22658 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
22659 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
22660 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
22661 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22662 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
22663 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
22664 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22665 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
22666 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
22667 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22668 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
22669 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
22670 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
22671 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
22672 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
22673 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22675 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
22676 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
22677 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
22678 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
22679 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
22680 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22681 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
22682 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
22683 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
22686 o Minor bugfixes (client):
22687 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
22688 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
22689 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
22690 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
22692 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
22693 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
22694 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
22695 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
22697 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
22698 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
22699 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
22700 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22701 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
22702 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
22703 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
22704 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
22706 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
22707 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
22708 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
22709 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
22712 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
22713 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
22714 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
22715 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
22716 versions. Found by "skruffy".
22717 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
22718 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
22719 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
22722 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
22723 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
22724 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
22725 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
22728 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
22729 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
22730 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
22731 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
22733 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
22734 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
22735 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
22737 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
22738 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
22739 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22741 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22742 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
22743 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22744 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
22745 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
22749 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
22750 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
22751 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
22752 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
22755 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
22756 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
22757 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
22758 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
22760 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
22761 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
22763 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
22764 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
22765 caches don't get confused.
22768 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
22769 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
22770 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
22771 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
22772 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
22775 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
22776 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
22777 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
22778 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
22779 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
22780 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
22784 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
22785 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
22786 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
22787 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
22788 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
22789 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
22790 of RAM, and several others.
22792 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22793 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
22794 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
22795 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
22796 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
22798 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
22799 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
22800 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
22801 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
22804 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22805 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
22806 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
22807 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
22808 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
22809 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
22810 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22811 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
22812 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
22813 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
22814 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
22815 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
22816 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
22817 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
22818 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
22819 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
22820 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
22821 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
22822 Resolves ticket 11438.
22824 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
22825 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
22826 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
22827 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
22828 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
22829 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22831 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22832 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
22833 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22835 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22836 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
22837 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22839 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22840 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
22841 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
22842 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22844 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22845 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
22846 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
22848 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22849 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
22850 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
22853 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
22854 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
22855 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
22856 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
22859 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22860 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
22861 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
22862 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
22864 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22865 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
22866 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
22867 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
22869 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
22870 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
22871 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
22875 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
22876 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
22877 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
22878 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
22879 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
22880 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
22881 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
22882 the Linux sandbox code.
22884 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
22885 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
22886 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
22888 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
22889 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
22891 o Major features (security):
22892 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
22893 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
22894 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
22895 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
22896 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
22897 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
22898 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
22899 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
22901 o Major features (relay performance):
22902 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
22903 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
22904 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
22905 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
22906 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
22907 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
22908 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
22909 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
22910 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
22911 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
22913 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
22914 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
22915 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
22916 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
22917 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
22918 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
22919 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
22921 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
22922 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
22924 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
22925 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
22926 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
22927 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
22928 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
22929 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
22930 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22931 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
22932 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
22933 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
22934 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
22935 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
22936 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
22937 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
22938 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
22939 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
22940 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
22941 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
22942 Resolves ticket 11438.
22944 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
22945 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
22946 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
22947 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22949 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
22950 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
22951 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
22952 10267; patch from "yurivict".
22953 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
22954 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
22955 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
22956 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
22957 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
22958 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
22960 o Minor features (security):
22961 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
22962 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
22963 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
22964 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
22967 o Minor features (log verbosity):
22968 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
22969 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
22970 Resolves ticket 5286.
22971 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
22972 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
22973 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
22974 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
22975 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
22976 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
22977 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
22978 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
22979 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
22981 o Minor features (relay):
22982 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
22983 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
22984 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
22986 o Minor features (controller):
22987 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
22988 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
22990 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
22991 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
22992 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
22994 o Minor features (bridge client):
22995 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
22996 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
22997 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
22999 o Minor features (diagnostic):
23000 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
23001 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
23002 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
23003 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
23004 still referenced by a live node_t object.
23006 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
23007 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
23008 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
23009 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
23011 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
23012 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
23013 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
23014 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
23017 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
23018 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
23019 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23021 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
23022 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
23023 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
23024 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23025 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
23026 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
23027 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23029 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
23030 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
23031 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
23032 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23033 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
23034 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
23035 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23036 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
23037 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
23038 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
23039 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23040 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
23041 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
23044 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
23045 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
23046 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
23047 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
23048 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
23050 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
23051 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
23052 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
23055 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23056 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
23057 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23059 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
23060 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
23061 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23063 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23064 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
23065 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
23066 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23068 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
23069 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
23070 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23071 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
23072 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
23074 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
23075 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
23076 early. Fixes bug 10081.
23078 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
23079 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
23080 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23081 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
23082 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23083 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
23084 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
23085 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
23087 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
23088 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
23089 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
23090 should never have affected anyone in practice.
23092 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
23093 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
23094 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23096 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
23097 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
23098 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
23099 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
23100 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
23101 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
23102 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
23103 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
23104 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
23105 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
23106 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
23107 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
23108 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
23109 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
23111 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
23112 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
23113 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
23114 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
23115 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
23116 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
23117 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
23118 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
23122 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
23123 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
23124 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
23125 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23126 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
23127 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23128 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
23129 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
23131 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
23133 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23134 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
23135 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
23136 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
23137 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
23140 o Deprecated versions:
23141 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
23142 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
23143 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
23144 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
23147 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
23148 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
23149 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
23150 Patch from Dana Koch.
23153 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
23154 Resolves ticket 11070.
23157 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
23158 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
23159 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
23160 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
23161 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
23164 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
23165 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
23167 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
23168 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
23169 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
23170 streams attached to each circuit.
23172 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
23173 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
23174 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
23175 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
23176 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
23177 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
23178 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
23179 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
23180 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
23181 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
23182 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
23183 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
23184 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
23186 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
23187 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
23188 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
23190 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
23191 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
23192 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
23193 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
23194 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
23195 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
23196 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
23197 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
23198 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
23200 o Minor features (other):
23201 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
23202 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
23203 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
23204 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
23205 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
23206 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
23207 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
23208 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
23209 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23212 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
23213 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
23214 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
23215 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
23216 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
23217 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
23218 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
23219 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
23221 o Minor bugfixes (client):
23222 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
23223 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
23224 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
23225 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23226 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
23227 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
23228 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
23230 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
23231 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
23232 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
23233 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
23234 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
23235 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
23236 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
23237 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
23238 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
23239 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
23240 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
23241 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23243 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
23244 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
23245 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
23246 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
23247 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
23248 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
23249 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
23250 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
23251 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
23252 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
23253 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
23254 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
23255 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
23256 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
23258 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
23259 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
23261 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
23262 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
23263 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
23264 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
23265 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
23266 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
23267 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23268 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
23269 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
23270 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
23271 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
23272 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23273 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
23274 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
23276 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
23277 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
23278 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
23279 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
23282 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
23283 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
23284 the rest of bug 10841.
23287 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
23288 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
23289 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
23290 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
23291 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
23292 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
23293 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
23294 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
23295 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
23296 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
23297 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
23298 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23299 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
23300 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
23301 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23303 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23304 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
23305 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
23307 o Test infrastructure:
23308 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
23309 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
23310 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
23311 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
23314 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
23315 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
23316 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
23317 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
23319 o Major features (client security):
23320 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
23321 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
23322 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
23323 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
23324 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
23325 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
23328 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
23329 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
23330 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
23331 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23333 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23334 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
23335 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
23336 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
23337 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
23340 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
23341 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
23343 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
23344 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
23345 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
23346 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
23347 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
23348 GeoLite2 Country database.
23351 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
23352 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
23353 bugfix on every released Tor.
23354 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
23355 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
23356 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
23357 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23358 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
23359 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
23360 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
23361 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
23362 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
23363 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23364 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
23365 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
23366 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23367 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
23368 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23370 o Documentation fixes:
23371 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
23372 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23375 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
23376 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
23377 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
23378 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
23379 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
23380 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
23381 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
23382 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
23384 o Major features (client security):
23385 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
23386 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
23387 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
23388 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
23389 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
23390 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
23391 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
23392 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
23393 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
23394 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
23395 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
23396 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
23398 o Major features (bridges):
23399 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
23400 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
23401 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
23402 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
23403 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
23404 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
23405 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
23406 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
23409 o Major features (other):
23410 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
23411 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
23412 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
23413 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
23414 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
23415 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
23416 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
23417 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
23418 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
23419 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
23420 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
23421 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
23424 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
23425 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
23426 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23427 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
23428 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
23429 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
23430 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23432 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
23433 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
23434 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
23435 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
23436 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
23437 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
23438 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
23439 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
23440 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
23442 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
23443 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23444 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
23445 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
23446 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
23447 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
23449 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23450 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
23451 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
23452 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
23453 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
23454 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
23457 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
23458 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
23459 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
23460 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
23461 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
23462 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
23463 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
23465 o Minor features (security):
23466 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
23467 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
23470 o Minor features (config options and command line):
23471 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
23472 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
23473 Implements ticket 10060.
23474 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
23475 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
23476 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
23478 o Minor features (controller):
23479 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
23480 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
23481 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
23482 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
23483 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
23486 o Minor features (build):
23487 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
23488 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
23489 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
23490 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
23491 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
23492 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
23493 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
23495 o Minor features (testing):
23496 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
23497 the unit test scripts.
23498 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
23499 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
23500 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
23501 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
23503 o Minor features (log messages):
23504 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
23505 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
23506 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
23507 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
23508 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
23509 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
23510 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
23511 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
23512 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
23513 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23515 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23516 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
23517 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
23518 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
23519 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
23520 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
23521 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
23522 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
23523 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
23524 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23526 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23527 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
23528 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
23529 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
23532 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23533 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
23534 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
23535 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
23536 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23538 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23539 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
23540 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
23541 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
23542 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
23543 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
23544 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
23546 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
23547 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
23548 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
23549 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
23550 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
23551 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
23552 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23553 Reported by "mr-4".
23554 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
23555 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
23556 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
23557 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23559 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
23560 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
23561 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
23562 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
23563 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
23564 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
23565 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
23566 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
23567 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
23568 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
23569 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23571 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
23572 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
23573 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
23574 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
23575 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
23576 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
23577 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
23578 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
23579 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
23580 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
23582 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
23583 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
23584 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
23585 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
23588 o Minor bugfixes (build):
23589 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
23590 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
23591 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
23592 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
23593 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
23595 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
23596 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23598 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
23599 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
23600 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
23601 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23603 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23604 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
23605 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
23606 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23607 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
23608 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
23609 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
23610 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
23611 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
23612 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
23613 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
23614 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
23615 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
23616 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
23618 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
23619 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
23620 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23621 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
23622 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
23623 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
23625 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23626 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
23627 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23628 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
23629 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
23630 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
23631 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
23632 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
23633 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
23634 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23635 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
23636 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23638 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23639 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
23640 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
23641 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
23642 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
23643 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23644 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
23645 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
23646 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
23647 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
23648 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
23649 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
23650 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
23651 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
23652 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
23653 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
23656 o Removed code and features:
23657 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
23658 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
23659 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
23660 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
23661 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
23662 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
23664 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
23665 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
23666 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
23667 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
23668 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
23669 part of a fix for bug 10841.
23671 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23672 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
23673 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
23674 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
23675 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
23676 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
23677 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
23678 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
23679 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
23680 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
23681 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
23684 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
23685 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
23686 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
23687 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
23688 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23690 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
23691 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
23692 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
23693 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
23694 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
23695 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
23696 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
23699 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
23700 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
23701 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
23704 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
23705 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
23706 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
23707 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
23708 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
23709 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
23710 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
23712 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
23713 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
23716 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
23717 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
23718 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
23719 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
23720 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
23721 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
23722 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
23723 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
23725 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
23726 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23727 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
23728 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
23729 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
23730 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
23733 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
23734 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23735 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
23736 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
23737 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
23740 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
23741 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
23742 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
23743 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
23744 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
23745 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
23746 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
23747 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
23749 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
23750 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
23751 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
23752 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
23753 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
23754 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
23755 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
23756 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
23757 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
23758 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
23759 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
23760 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
23761 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
23762 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
23763 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
23764 security, and privacy fixes.
23767 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
23768 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
23769 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
23770 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
23773 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
23774 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
23775 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
23776 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
23777 them to solve bug 6033.)
23780 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
23781 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
23782 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
23783 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
23784 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
23785 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23786 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
23787 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
23789 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
23790 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
23791 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
23792 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23794 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
23795 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
23796 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23797 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
23798 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
23799 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
23800 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
23801 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
23802 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
23803 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23804 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
23805 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23807 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
23808 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
23809 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
23810 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
23811 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
23812 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23813 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
23814 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
23815 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
23816 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
23817 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
23818 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
23819 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
23820 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
23821 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
23822 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
23825 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
23826 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
23827 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
23828 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
23829 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
23830 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
23831 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
23832 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
23833 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
23834 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
23835 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
23836 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
23837 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
23838 Implements part of proposal 222.
23840 o Minor features (other):
23841 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
23842 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
23843 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
23844 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
23845 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
23846 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
23847 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
23848 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
23849 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23851 o Documentation fixes:
23852 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
23853 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
23854 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
23855 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
23856 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
23857 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
23860 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
23861 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
23862 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
23863 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
23864 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
23865 release of the new branch.
23867 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
23868 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
23869 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
23871 o Major features (security):
23872 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
23873 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
23874 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
23875 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
23876 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
23877 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
23878 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
23879 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
23880 Google Summer of Code.
23881 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
23882 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
23883 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
23884 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
23885 them to solve bug 6033.)
23887 o Major features (other):
23888 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
23889 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
23890 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
23891 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
23892 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
23894 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
23895 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
23896 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
23897 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
23898 Implements ticket 8530.
23899 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
23900 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
23903 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
23904 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
23905 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
23906 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
23907 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
23908 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23909 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
23910 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
23911 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23912 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
23913 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
23914 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
23915 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23918 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
23919 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
23920 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
23921 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
23922 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
23923 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
23924 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
23925 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
23926 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
23927 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
23931 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
23932 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
23933 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
23934 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
23935 invoking the other functions it calls.
23936 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
23937 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
23938 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
23939 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
23941 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
23942 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
23943 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
23944 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
23945 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
23946 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
23947 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
23948 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
23949 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
23950 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
23951 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
23952 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
23953 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
23954 Implements part of proposal 222.
23956 o Minor features (config options):
23957 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
23958 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
23959 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
23960 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
23961 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
23962 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
23963 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
23964 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
23965 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
23966 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
23967 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
23968 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
23969 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
23970 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
23971 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
23972 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
23973 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
23976 o Minor features (build):
23977 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
23978 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
23979 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
23980 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
23981 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
23984 o Minor features (other):
23985 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
23986 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
23987 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
23988 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
23989 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
23990 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
23991 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
23992 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
23993 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
23994 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
23995 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
23996 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
23997 Closes ticket 8109.
23998 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24001 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
24002 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
24003 bugfix on every released Tor.
24004 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
24005 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
24006 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
24007 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
24008 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
24009 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
24011 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
24012 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
24013 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
24014 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24015 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
24016 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
24017 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
24018 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24020 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
24021 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
24022 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
24023 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
24024 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
24026 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
24027 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24029 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
24030 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
24031 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
24033 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
24034 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
24035 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
24036 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
24037 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24039 o Minor code improvements:
24040 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
24041 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
24043 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
24044 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
24045 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
24046 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
24047 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
24049 o Removed features:
24050 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
24051 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
24052 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
24053 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
24055 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24056 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
24057 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
24058 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
24059 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
24060 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
24061 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
24062 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
24063 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
24064 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
24065 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
24066 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
24067 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
24068 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
24069 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
24070 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
24073 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
24074 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24075 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
24076 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
24077 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
24078 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
24079 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
24082 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
24083 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
24084 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
24085 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
24086 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
24087 Implements ticket 9574.
24090 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
24091 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
24092 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24093 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
24094 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
24095 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
24096 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
24097 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
24098 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24099 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
24100 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
24101 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
24105 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
24106 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
24107 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
24108 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
24110 o Minor fixes (config options):
24111 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
24112 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
24113 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
24114 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
24115 message is logged at notice, not at info.
24116 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
24117 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
24118 or we just won't work.)
24121 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
24122 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
24123 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
24124 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24127 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
24128 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24129 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
24132 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
24133 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
24134 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24135 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
24136 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24137 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
24138 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
24140 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
24141 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24142 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
24143 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
24146 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
24147 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
24148 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24149 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
24150 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
24151 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
24152 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
24153 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
24154 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
24155 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
24156 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24157 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
24158 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
24161 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24164 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
24165 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24166 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
24167 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
24170 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
24171 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
24172 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24175 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
24176 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
24177 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
24180 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
24181 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
24182 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24185 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
24186 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
24187 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
24188 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
24189 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
24190 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
24192 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
24193 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
24194 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
24195 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
24196 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
24197 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24199 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
24200 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
24201 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24204 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
24205 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
24206 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
24207 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
24208 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
24210 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
24211 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
24212 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
24213 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
24214 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
24215 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
24216 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
24218 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
24219 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
24220 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
24222 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
24223 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
24227 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
24228 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
24229 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
24231 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
24232 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
24233 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
24234 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
24235 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
24236 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
24238 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
24239 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
24240 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
24241 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
24242 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
24243 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
24244 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24247 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
24248 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
24249 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
24250 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
24251 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
24252 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
24253 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24254 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
24255 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24256 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
24257 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
24258 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24259 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
24260 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
24262 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
24263 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
24264 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
24265 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
24268 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24269 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
24270 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
24271 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
24272 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
24273 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
24275 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
24276 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
24280 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
24281 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
24282 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
24283 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
24284 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
24285 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
24286 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24288 o Removed documentation:
24289 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
24290 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
24292 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24293 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
24294 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
24295 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
24298 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
24299 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
24300 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
24301 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
24302 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
24303 variety of other issues.
24306 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
24307 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
24308 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
24309 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
24310 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
24311 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24312 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
24313 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
24315 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
24316 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
24317 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
24319 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
24320 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
24321 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
24322 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24323 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
24324 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
24325 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24327 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
24328 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
24329 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
24330 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
24331 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
24332 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
24333 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
24334 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24335 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
24336 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
24337 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
24338 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
24339 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24340 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
24341 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
24342 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
24343 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
24344 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
24345 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
24346 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
24347 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24349 o Major bugfixes (other):
24350 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
24351 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
24352 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
24353 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24356 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
24357 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
24358 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
24359 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
24361 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
24362 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
24364 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24366 o Minor features (build):
24367 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
24368 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
24370 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
24371 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
24373 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
24374 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
24375 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
24378 o Minor bugfixes (build):
24379 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
24380 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
24381 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24382 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
24383 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
24384 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24385 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
24386 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
24387 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24388 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
24389 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
24390 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
24391 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
24394 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
24395 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
24396 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
24397 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
24398 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
24399 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
24400 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
24401 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
24402 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
24403 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
24404 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
24405 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
24406 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
24407 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24408 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24410 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24411 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
24412 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24413 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
24414 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
24415 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
24416 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
24417 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24418 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
24419 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
24420 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
24421 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
24422 Should help resolve bug 8235.
24423 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
24424 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
24425 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
24426 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24428 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
24429 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
24430 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
24431 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
24432 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
24433 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
24434 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
24435 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
24438 o Minor bugfixes (config):
24439 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
24440 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
24442 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
24443 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
24444 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
24445 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
24446 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
24447 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
24448 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24449 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
24450 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
24451 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
24452 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
24453 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
24454 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24455 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
24456 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
24459 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
24460 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
24461 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
24462 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
24463 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
24464 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
24465 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
24466 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
24468 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
24469 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
24470 or at least make it more diagnosable.
24471 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
24472 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
24473 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
24474 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24476 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
24477 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
24478 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
24479 the relaxed timeout log message.
24480 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
24481 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
24482 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
24484 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
24485 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
24486 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24487 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
24488 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24489 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
24490 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
24493 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
24494 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
24495 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
24496 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
24497 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24498 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
24499 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24500 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
24501 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
24502 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
24503 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
24504 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
24505 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24506 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
24507 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
24508 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
24509 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24511 o Documentation fixes:
24512 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
24513 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
24514 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
24515 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
24516 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
24517 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
24518 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
24519 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
24522 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
24523 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
24527 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
24528 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
24529 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
24530 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
24532 o Major features (directory authorities):
24533 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
24534 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
24535 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
24536 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
24537 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
24538 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
24539 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
24540 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
24541 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
24542 Implements ticket 8151.
24544 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
24545 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
24546 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
24547 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
24548 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
24550 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24551 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
24552 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
24553 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
24554 whether authentication information is present, causing all
24555 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
24556 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
24558 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
24559 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
24560 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
24561 bugs 1913 and 1992.
24562 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
24563 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
24564 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
24565 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
24566 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
24567 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
24568 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
24569 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
24570 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
24571 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
24572 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
24573 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
24574 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
24575 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
24576 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
24577 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
24578 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
24579 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
24582 o Minor features (portability):
24583 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
24584 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24585 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
24586 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
24587 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
24588 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
24589 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
24590 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24592 o Minor features (other):
24593 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
24594 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
24595 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
24596 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
24597 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
24598 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
24599 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
24600 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
24602 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24604 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24605 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
24606 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
24607 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
24608 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
24609 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
24610 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
24611 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
24612 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
24613 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
24615 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
24616 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
24617 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
24618 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24620 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24621 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
24622 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
24623 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
24624 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
24625 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
24626 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
24628 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
24629 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
24630 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
24631 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
24632 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
24634 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
24635 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
24636 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
24637 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
24639 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
24640 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
24641 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
24644 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
24645 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
24646 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24647 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
24649 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
24650 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
24651 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
24652 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24654 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
24655 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
24656 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
24657 this is CID 718634.
24658 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
24659 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
24660 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
24661 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
24663 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
24664 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
24665 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24666 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
24667 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
24668 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
24669 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24671 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24672 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
24676 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
24677 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
24678 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
24679 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
24680 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
24683 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
24684 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
24685 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
24686 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
24688 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
24689 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
24690 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
24694 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
24695 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
24696 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
24697 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
24698 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
24699 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
24700 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
24701 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
24702 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
24703 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
24704 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
24705 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
24706 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
24709 o Major features (relay):
24710 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
24711 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
24712 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
24713 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
24714 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
24715 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
24716 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
24718 o Major features (portability):
24719 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
24720 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
24721 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
24722 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
24723 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24726 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
24727 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
24728 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
24729 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
24730 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
24731 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
24733 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
24734 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
24735 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
24736 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
24737 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
24738 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
24739 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
24740 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
24742 o Minor features (path selection):
24743 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
24744 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
24745 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
24746 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
24747 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
24748 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
24749 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
24750 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
24751 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
24752 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
24753 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
24754 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
24755 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
24756 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
24757 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
24758 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
24759 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
24760 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
24761 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
24763 o Minor features (log messages):
24764 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
24765 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
24766 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
24767 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
24770 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
24771 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
24772 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24773 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
24774 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
24775 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
24776 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
24777 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
24778 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
24779 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24780 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
24781 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24783 o Build improvements:
24784 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
24785 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
24786 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
24787 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
24788 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
24789 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
24790 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
24791 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
24792 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
24793 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
24794 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
24795 than to perform erroneously.
24797 o Removed features:
24798 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
24799 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
24800 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
24802 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
24803 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
24804 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
24807 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24808 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
24810 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
24811 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
24815 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
24816 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
24817 work more robustly.
24820 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
24821 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
24822 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
24826 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
24827 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
24828 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
24829 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
24832 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
24833 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
24834 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
24835 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
24836 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
24837 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
24838 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
24839 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
24840 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
24841 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
24842 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
24843 closes ticket 7199.
24845 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
24846 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
24847 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
24848 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
24849 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
24850 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
24851 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
24852 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
24853 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
24854 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
24855 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
24857 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
24858 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
24859 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
24861 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
24862 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
24863 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
24865 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
24867 o Major features (better link encryption):
24868 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
24869 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
24870 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
24871 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
24872 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
24873 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
24876 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
24877 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
24878 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
24879 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
24880 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
24881 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
24882 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
24884 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
24885 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
24886 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
24887 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
24889 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
24892 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
24893 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
24894 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24897 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
24898 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
24899 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
24900 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
24901 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
24902 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
24903 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
24904 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
24905 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24907 o Minor features (testing):
24908 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
24909 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
24910 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
24912 o Minor features (path bias detection):
24913 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
24914 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
24915 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
24916 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
24917 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
24918 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
24919 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
24920 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
24921 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
24922 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
24923 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
24924 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
24925 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
24926 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
24927 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
24928 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
24929 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
24930 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
24931 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
24932 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
24933 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
24934 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
24935 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
24936 detection capability loss.
24938 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24939 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
24940 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
24941 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
24942 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24943 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
24944 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
24945 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
24948 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24949 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
24950 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
24951 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
24952 and the different handshakes it supports.
24953 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
24954 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
24955 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
24956 any encoding is overkill.
24959 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
24960 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
24961 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
24962 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
24963 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
24964 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
24965 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
24966 and fixes a variety of other issues.
24968 o Major features (client resilience):
24969 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
24970 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
24971 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
24972 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
24973 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
24974 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
24975 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
24976 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
24977 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
24978 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
24979 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
24980 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
24981 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
24982 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
24983 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
24985 o Major features (IPv6):
24986 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
24987 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
24988 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
24989 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
24990 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
24991 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
24992 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
24993 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
24995 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
24996 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
24998 o Major features (geoip database):
24999 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
25000 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
25001 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
25002 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
25003 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
25004 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
25005 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
25006 Country database, as modified above.
25008 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
25009 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
25010 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
25011 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
25012 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
25013 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
25014 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
25015 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
25016 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
25017 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
25018 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
25019 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
25020 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
25021 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
25022 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
25023 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
25024 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
25027 o Major bugfixes (other):
25028 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
25029 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
25030 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
25031 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
25032 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
25033 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
25034 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
25035 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
25037 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
25038 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
25041 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
25042 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
25043 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
25044 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
25045 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
25046 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
25047 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
25048 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
25050 o Minor features (IPv6):
25051 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
25052 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
25053 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
25054 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
25055 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
25056 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
25057 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
25058 connect to the wrong addresses.
25059 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
25060 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
25061 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
25062 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
25066 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
25067 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
25068 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
25069 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
25070 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
25071 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
25072 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
25074 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
25075 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
25076 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
25079 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
25080 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
25082 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25083 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
25084 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
25085 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
25086 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
25089 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
25090 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
25091 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
25092 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
25093 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
25094 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
25095 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
25096 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
25098 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
25099 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
25100 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
25101 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
25102 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
25103 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
25104 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
25105 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
25106 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
25107 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
25108 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
25111 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
25112 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
25113 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
25114 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
25115 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
25116 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
25117 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
25118 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
25119 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
25120 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
25123 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
25124 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
25128 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
25129 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
25130 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
25131 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
25134 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
25135 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
25137 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
25138 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
25139 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
25140 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
25141 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
25142 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
25143 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
25144 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
25145 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
25146 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
25149 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
25151 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
25152 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
25153 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
25154 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
25155 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
25158 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
25159 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
25160 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25161 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
25162 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
25164 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
25165 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
25166 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
25167 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
25168 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
25169 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
25170 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
25172 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
25173 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25174 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
25175 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
25176 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
25177 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25178 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
25179 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25181 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25182 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
25183 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
25184 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
25185 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
25186 present the same extensions.)
25189 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
25190 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
25191 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
25192 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
25193 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
25195 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
25196 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
25197 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
25198 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
25200 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
25201 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
25202 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
25203 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25205 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
25206 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
25207 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
25208 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
25209 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
25210 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
25211 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
25212 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
25213 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25215 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
25216 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
25217 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
25218 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
25219 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25222 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
25223 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
25224 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
25226 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25227 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
25229 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
25230 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
25234 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
25235 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
25236 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
25237 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
25240 o Major bugfixes (security):
25241 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
25242 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
25243 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
25245 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
25246 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
25247 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
25248 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25251 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
25252 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
25253 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
25254 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
25255 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
25256 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
25257 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
25258 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25261 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
25262 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
25263 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
25264 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25267 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
25268 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
25269 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
25270 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
25271 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
25272 scheduling algorithms.
25274 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
25275 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
25276 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
25278 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
25279 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
25280 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
25281 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
25282 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
25283 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
25284 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
25285 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
25286 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
25287 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
25288 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
25290 o Internal abstraction features:
25291 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
25292 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
25293 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
25294 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
25295 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
25296 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
25297 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
25298 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
25299 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
25300 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
25301 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
25302 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
25303 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
25304 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
25305 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
25306 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
25307 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
25309 o Required libraries:
25310 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
25311 strongly recommended.
25314 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
25315 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
25316 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
25317 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
25318 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
25319 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
25320 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
25321 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
25322 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
25324 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
25325 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
25326 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
25327 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
25328 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
25329 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
25330 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
25331 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25332 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
25333 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
25334 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
25335 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
25336 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
25337 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
25338 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25341 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
25342 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
25343 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
25344 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
25345 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
25346 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
25347 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
25348 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
25349 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
25350 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
25351 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
25352 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
25353 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
25354 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
25355 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25356 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
25357 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
25358 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
25359 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
25361 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
25362 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
25363 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
25364 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
25365 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
25366 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
25367 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
25370 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
25371 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
25372 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
25373 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
25375 o New directory authorities:
25376 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
25377 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
25379 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
25380 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
25381 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
25382 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
25383 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
25384 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
25385 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
25386 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
25387 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
25388 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
25389 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
25392 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
25393 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
25394 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
25396 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25397 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
25398 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
25399 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25400 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
25401 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
25402 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25403 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
25404 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
25406 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25407 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
25408 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
25409 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
25410 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
25411 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
25412 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
25413 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
25414 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
25415 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
25416 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
25417 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
25418 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25419 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
25420 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
25421 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
25422 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
25423 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
25425 o Documentation fixes:
25426 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
25429 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
25430 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
25431 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
25432 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
25435 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
25436 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
25437 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25440 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
25441 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
25442 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
25443 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
25444 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
25445 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
25446 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
25447 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
25449 o Security features:
25450 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
25451 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
25452 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
25453 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
25454 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
25455 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
25456 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
25457 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
25458 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
25462 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
25463 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
25464 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
25467 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
25468 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
25469 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25470 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
25471 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25472 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
25473 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
25474 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
25475 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
25476 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
25477 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25478 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
25479 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
25480 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
25482 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
25483 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25484 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
25485 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
25486 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25488 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
25489 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
25490 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
25491 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25492 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
25493 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
25494 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25495 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
25496 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
25497 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
25498 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
25499 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
25500 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
25501 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25502 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
25503 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
25504 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
25505 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
25506 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
25507 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
25509 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25510 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
25511 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
25512 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
25513 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
25514 testable, and a little less fragile too.
25515 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
25516 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25518 o Documentation fixes:
25519 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
25520 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
25524 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
25525 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
25529 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
25530 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
25531 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25534 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
25535 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
25539 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
25540 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
25544 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
25545 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
25546 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25547 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
25548 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
25549 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
25550 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
25554 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
25555 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
25556 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
25557 log messages less noisy.
25560 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
25561 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
25565 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
25566 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
25567 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
25568 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
25569 last time we raised it).
25572 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
25573 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
25575 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
25576 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
25577 part of ticket 6736.
25578 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
25579 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
25580 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
25584 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
25585 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
25586 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
25587 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
25588 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
25590 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
25591 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25592 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
25593 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
25594 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25595 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
25596 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
25597 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25598 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
25599 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25600 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
25601 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25603 o Removed features:
25604 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
25605 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
25606 bunch of compatibility code.
25608 o Code refactoring:
25609 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
25610 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
25611 the ORPort and the DirPort.
25614 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
25615 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
25616 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
25617 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
25619 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
25620 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
25621 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
25623 o Major features (bridges):
25624 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
25625 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
25626 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
25629 o Major features (IPv6):
25630 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
25631 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
25632 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
25633 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
25634 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
25635 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
25636 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
25637 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
25638 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
25640 o Major features (build):
25641 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
25642 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
25643 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
25644 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
25645 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
25646 fixes by Jim Meyering.
25647 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
25648 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
25649 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
25651 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
25652 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
25653 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
25654 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
25655 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
25656 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
25657 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
25658 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
25659 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
25660 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
25661 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
25663 o Minor features (streamlining);
25664 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
25665 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
25667 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
25668 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
25669 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
25670 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
25671 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
25672 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25674 o Minor features (controller):
25675 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
25677 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
25678 Implements ticket 4971.
25680 o Minor features (IPv6):
25681 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
25682 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
25683 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
25684 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
25685 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
25687 o Minor features (log messages):
25688 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
25689 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
25690 Resolves ticket 6758.
25691 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
25692 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
25693 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
25694 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25695 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
25696 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
25697 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
25699 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
25700 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
25701 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
25702 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
25703 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
25706 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25707 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
25708 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
25709 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
25710 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
25712 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
25713 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
25714 Implements ticket 5529.
25715 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
25716 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
25717 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
25718 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
25719 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
25720 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
25721 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
25722 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
25723 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
25724 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
25726 o New requirements:
25727 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
25728 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
25729 from a source distribution.)
25732 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
25733 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
25734 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
25735 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
25736 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
25737 and cleans up other smaller issues.
25739 o Major bugfixes (security):
25740 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
25741 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
25742 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
25743 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
25744 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
25745 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
25746 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
25747 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
25748 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
25749 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
25750 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
25751 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
25752 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
25753 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
25754 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
25755 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
25759 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
25760 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
25761 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
25762 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25763 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
25764 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
25765 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
25766 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
25767 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
25768 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25771 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
25772 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
25773 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
25774 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
25775 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25776 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
25777 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
25778 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
25779 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
25780 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
25781 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
25783 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
25784 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
25785 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
25787 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
25788 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
25789 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
25790 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
25791 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25792 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
25793 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
25794 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
25795 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25796 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
25797 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25798 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
25799 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
25800 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
25803 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25804 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
25805 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
25806 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
25807 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
25808 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
25809 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
25810 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
25811 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
25812 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
25813 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
25814 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
25815 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
25816 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
25817 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
25820 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
25821 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
25822 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
25823 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
25824 Resolves ticket 6732.
25827 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
25828 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
25829 attack that could in theory leak path information.
25832 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
25833 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
25834 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25835 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
25836 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
25837 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
25838 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
25839 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
25840 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
25841 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
25842 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
25843 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
25844 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
25845 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
25848 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
25849 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
25850 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
25851 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
25854 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
25855 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
25856 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25857 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
25858 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
25859 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25860 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
25861 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
25862 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
25863 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
25864 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
25865 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
25866 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
25867 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
25868 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
25869 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
25870 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
25873 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
25874 a little more useful.
25875 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
25876 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25877 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
25878 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
25879 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
25880 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
25881 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
25884 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
25885 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25886 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
25887 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25888 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
25889 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
25893 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
25894 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
25895 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
25896 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
25897 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
25900 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
25901 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
25902 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
25905 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
25907 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
25909 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25910 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
25911 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
25912 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
25913 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
25916 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
25917 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
25918 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
25919 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
25920 since the beginning of Tor.
25923 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
25924 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
25925 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
25926 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
25927 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
25928 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
25929 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
25930 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25931 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
25932 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
25935 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
25936 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
25939 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
25940 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
25941 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
25942 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
25945 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
25946 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25947 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
25948 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
25949 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
25950 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25952 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25953 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
25954 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
25955 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
25956 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
25957 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
25958 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25959 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
25960 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
25961 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
25962 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
25963 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
25964 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
25965 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
25966 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
25967 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
25968 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25969 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
25970 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
25972 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25973 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
25974 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
25976 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
25977 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25978 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
25979 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
25981 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
25982 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25983 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
25984 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25985 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
25986 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
25987 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25988 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
25989 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25990 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
25991 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25992 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
25993 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
25994 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25995 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
25996 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
25999 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
26000 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
26001 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
26002 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
26003 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
26006 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
26007 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
26008 options. Closes bug 4748.
26011 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
26012 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
26013 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
26014 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
26015 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
26019 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
26020 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
26022 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
26023 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
26024 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
26025 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
26026 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
26027 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
26028 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
26029 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
26030 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
26033 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
26034 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
26035 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
26036 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
26037 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
26038 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
26039 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
26040 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
26043 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
26044 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
26045 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
26046 case for flushing marked connections.
26047 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
26048 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
26049 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
26050 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
26051 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
26052 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
26053 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26054 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
26055 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26056 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
26057 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
26058 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
26059 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26060 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
26061 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
26062 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
26063 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26064 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
26065 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26066 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
26067 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
26068 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
26069 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26070 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
26071 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
26073 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
26074 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26075 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
26079 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
26080 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
26081 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
26082 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
26083 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
26084 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
26085 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
26086 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
26087 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
26088 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
26089 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
26090 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
26091 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
26092 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
26093 Addresses ticket 5458.
26094 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26096 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26097 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
26098 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
26101 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
26102 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
26103 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
26107 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
26108 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
26109 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
26110 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
26111 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
26112 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
26113 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26114 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
26115 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
26116 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
26117 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26120 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
26121 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
26124 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
26125 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
26128 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
26129 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
26130 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
26131 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
26132 that get us closer to a release candidate.
26134 o Major bugfixes (general):
26135 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
26136 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
26137 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
26138 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
26139 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
26140 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
26141 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26142 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
26143 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
26145 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
26146 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
26147 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
26148 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
26151 o Major bugfixes (clients):
26152 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
26153 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
26154 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
26155 which introduced predicted ports.
26156 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
26157 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
26158 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
26159 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26160 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
26161 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
26162 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
26163 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
26164 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
26165 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
26166 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26167 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
26168 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
26170 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
26171 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
26172 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
26173 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
26174 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
26175 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
26176 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
26177 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
26178 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
26179 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
26180 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
26184 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
26185 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
26186 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
26187 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
26188 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
26189 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
26190 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
26191 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
26192 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
26193 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
26194 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
26195 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
26196 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
26197 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
26199 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
26200 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
26201 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
26202 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
26203 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
26204 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
26205 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
26206 sure. Closes bug 5139.
26207 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
26208 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
26209 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
26210 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
26211 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
26212 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
26213 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26215 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
26216 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
26217 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
26218 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
26219 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
26220 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
26221 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
26222 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
26223 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
26224 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
26225 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
26226 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
26227 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
26228 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
26229 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
26230 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
26231 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
26232 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26233 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
26234 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
26236 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26237 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
26238 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
26239 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
26240 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
26241 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
26242 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
26243 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
26244 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
26245 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
26246 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
26247 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
26248 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
26250 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
26251 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26252 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
26253 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
26255 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
26256 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
26257 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26258 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
26259 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
26260 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26261 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
26262 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
26263 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
26264 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
26266 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
26267 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
26268 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
26270 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26271 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
26272 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
26273 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
26274 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
26275 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
26276 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
26277 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
26278 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
26279 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
26280 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
26281 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26282 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
26283 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
26284 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
26285 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26286 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
26287 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
26288 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
26289 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
26291 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
26292 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
26293 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26294 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
26295 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
26296 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
26298 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
26299 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
26300 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
26302 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
26303 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
26304 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
26305 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26306 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
26307 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26309 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26310 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
26311 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
26313 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
26314 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
26315 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26316 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
26317 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
26318 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26319 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
26320 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
26321 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
26322 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
26323 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
26324 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
26325 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
26326 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
26327 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
26328 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
26330 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
26331 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
26332 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26333 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
26334 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
26335 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26336 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
26337 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26338 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
26339 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
26340 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
26341 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
26342 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
26345 o Documentation fixes:
26346 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
26347 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
26348 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
26349 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
26350 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
26351 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
26354 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
26355 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
26359 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
26360 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
26361 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
26362 and fixes several crash bugs.
26364 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
26365 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
26366 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
26367 those packages and upgrade anyway.
26369 o Directory authority changes:
26370 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
26371 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
26375 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
26376 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
26377 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
26378 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
26379 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
26380 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
26381 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
26382 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
26383 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
26384 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
26385 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
26386 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
26387 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
26388 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
26389 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
26390 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
26391 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
26392 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
26393 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
26394 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
26395 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
26396 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
26397 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
26398 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
26399 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
26400 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
26401 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
26404 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
26405 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26406 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
26407 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
26409 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
26410 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
26412 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
26413 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
26414 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
26415 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
26416 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
26417 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
26418 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
26419 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
26422 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
26423 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
26424 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
26425 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
26426 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
26427 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
26428 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
26429 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
26430 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
26431 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
26432 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
26433 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
26434 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
26435 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
26436 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
26437 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
26438 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
26439 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
26440 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
26441 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
26442 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
26443 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
26444 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
26445 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
26446 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
26447 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
26448 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
26449 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
26450 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
26451 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
26452 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
26453 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
26454 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26455 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
26456 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26457 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
26458 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
26459 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
26460 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
26461 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26462 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
26463 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26464 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
26465 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
26466 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
26467 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
26469 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
26470 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
26471 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
26472 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
26473 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
26474 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
26475 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
26476 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
26477 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
26478 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
26479 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26480 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
26481 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26482 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
26483 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
26486 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
26487 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
26488 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
26489 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
26491 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26494 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
26495 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
26496 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
26497 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
26498 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
26499 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
26500 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
26503 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
26504 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
26505 the development branch build on Windows again.
26507 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26508 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
26509 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
26510 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
26511 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
26512 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
26513 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
26514 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
26515 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
26516 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
26517 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
26518 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
26519 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26520 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
26521 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
26523 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26524 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
26525 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
26526 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26527 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
26528 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
26529 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
26530 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
26531 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
26532 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
26533 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
26534 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26537 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
26538 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
26539 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
26540 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
26541 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
26542 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
26543 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
26544 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
26545 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
26547 o Removed features:
26548 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
26549 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
26550 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
26551 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
26555 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
26556 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
26557 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
26558 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
26560 o Directory authority changes:
26561 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
26565 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
26566 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26567 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
26568 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
26570 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
26571 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
26572 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
26573 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
26574 documents entirely.
26575 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
26576 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
26577 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26579 o Major features (performance):
26580 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
26581 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
26582 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
26583 much faster than other AES implementations.
26585 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
26586 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
26587 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
26588 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
26589 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
26590 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
26591 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
26592 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
26593 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
26594 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
26595 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
26596 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
26597 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
26598 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
26599 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
26600 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
26601 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
26602 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
26604 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
26605 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
26606 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
26607 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26608 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
26609 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26610 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
26611 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
26612 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
26614 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
26615 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
26616 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26617 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
26618 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
26619 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
26622 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
26623 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
26624 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
26625 please let us know about it.
26626 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
26627 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
26628 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
26629 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
26630 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26631 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26632 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
26633 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
26635 o Default torrc changes:
26636 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
26637 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
26639 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
26640 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
26641 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
26644 o Removed features:
26645 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
26646 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
26647 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
26648 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
26650 o Code refactoring:
26651 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
26652 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
26653 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
26654 it would be a bad idea to start.
26657 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
26658 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
26659 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
26660 that get us closer to a release candidate.
26662 o Directory authority changes:
26663 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
26666 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
26667 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
26668 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
26669 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
26670 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
26671 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
26672 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
26673 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
26674 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
26675 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
26676 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
26677 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
26678 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
26679 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
26680 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
26681 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
26683 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
26684 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
26685 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
26686 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
26687 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
26688 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26689 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
26690 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
26691 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26692 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
26693 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
26694 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
26696 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
26697 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
26698 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26699 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
26700 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
26702 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26703 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
26704 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
26705 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
26706 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
26707 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
26708 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
26709 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
26710 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
26711 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
26712 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
26713 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
26714 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
26715 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
26716 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26717 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
26718 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
26719 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
26720 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
26721 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
26722 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
26723 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
26726 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26727 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
26728 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26729 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
26730 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
26731 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
26732 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
26733 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
26734 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26735 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
26736 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
26737 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
26738 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
26739 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
26740 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
26741 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
26742 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
26745 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
26746 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
26747 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26750 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
26751 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
26752 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
26753 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
26756 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
26757 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
26759 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
26760 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
26761 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
26762 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
26763 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
26764 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
26765 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
26766 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
26767 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
26768 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
26769 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
26770 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26773 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
26774 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
26775 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
26776 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
26777 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
26778 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
26779 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26782 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
26783 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
26784 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
26785 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26786 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
26787 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
26788 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
26789 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
26790 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
26791 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
26793 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
26794 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
26795 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
26796 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
26797 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
26798 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
26799 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
26800 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
26801 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
26804 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26805 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
26806 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
26810 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
26811 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
26812 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
26813 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
26814 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
26815 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
26818 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
26819 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
26820 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
26821 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
26822 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
26823 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
26824 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
26825 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
26827 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
26828 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
26829 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
26830 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
26831 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
26832 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
26833 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
26834 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
26836 o Major security workaround:
26837 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
26838 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
26839 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
26840 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
26841 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
26842 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
26843 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
26844 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
26845 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
26846 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
26847 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
26850 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
26851 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
26852 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
26853 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
26854 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
26855 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
26856 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
26857 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26858 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
26859 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
26860 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
26861 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
26862 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
26864 o Minor features (controller):
26865 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
26866 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
26867 file. Resolves bug 1101.
26868 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
26869 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
26870 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
26871 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
26872 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
26873 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
26875 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
26876 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
26877 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
26878 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
26879 part of ticket 3457.
26880 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
26881 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
26882 circuit-status' control-port command.
26884 o Minor features (directory authorities):
26885 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
26886 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
26887 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
26888 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
26890 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
26891 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
26892 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
26893 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
26894 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
26895 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
26896 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
26898 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
26899 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
26901 o Minor features (other):
26902 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
26903 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
26904 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
26905 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
26906 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
26907 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
26908 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
26909 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
26911 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
26912 them from the other auths.
26913 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
26914 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
26915 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
26916 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
26917 the 0.2.3.x series.
26918 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26920 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26921 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
26922 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
26923 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
26924 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
26925 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
26926 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
26927 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
26928 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
26929 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
26930 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26931 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
26932 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
26933 be disabled using the new
26934 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
26935 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26936 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
26937 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
26938 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
26939 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
26940 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
26941 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
26942 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
26943 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
26944 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
26945 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
26947 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
26948 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
26949 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
26952 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
26953 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
26954 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
26956 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
26957 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
26958 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
26959 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
26960 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26961 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
26962 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26964 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
26965 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
26966 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
26967 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
26968 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
26969 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
26970 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
26971 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
26973 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
26974 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
26975 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
26976 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
26977 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
26978 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
26979 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
26980 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
26981 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
26984 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26985 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
26986 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
26987 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
26988 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
26989 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
26990 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
26991 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
26992 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
26993 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
26994 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
26995 accidentally been reverted.
26996 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
26997 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
26998 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
26999 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
27000 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
27001 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
27002 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27003 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
27004 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
27005 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27006 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
27007 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
27008 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
27009 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
27010 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27011 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
27012 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27013 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
27014 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27017 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
27018 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
27019 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
27020 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
27021 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
27022 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
27023 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
27025 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27026 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
27027 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
27028 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
27029 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
27030 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
27031 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
27033 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
27034 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
27035 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
27036 invalid value, rather than just -1.
27037 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
27038 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
27039 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
27040 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
27041 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
27042 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
27043 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
27047 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
27048 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
27049 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
27051 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
27052 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
27053 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
27054 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
27055 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
27056 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
27057 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
27058 (which Tor does not do by default).
27060 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
27061 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
27062 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
27063 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
27064 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
27066 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
27070 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27071 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27072 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27073 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27076 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
27077 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
27078 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
27079 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
27080 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
27081 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
27082 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
27083 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
27084 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
27085 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
27086 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27089 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27092 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
27093 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
27094 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
27096 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
27097 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
27098 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
27099 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
27100 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
27101 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
27102 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
27103 (which Tor does not do by default).
27105 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
27106 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
27107 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
27108 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
27109 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
27111 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
27112 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
27113 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
27116 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
27117 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
27118 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
27119 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
27120 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
27122 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
27123 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
27126 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27127 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27128 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27129 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27130 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
27131 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
27132 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
27133 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
27135 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
27136 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
27137 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
27138 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
27139 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
27140 close based on processing a cell on it.
27141 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
27142 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
27143 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
27144 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27145 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
27146 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
27147 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27148 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
27149 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
27150 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
27151 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
27152 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
27153 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
27154 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
27155 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
27158 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
27159 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
27160 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
27161 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
27162 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
27163 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
27164 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
27166 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
27167 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
27168 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
27169 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
27170 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
27171 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27172 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
27173 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
27174 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27175 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
27176 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
27177 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
27178 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
27179 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27180 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
27181 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
27182 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
27183 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
27184 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27185 Reported by "troll_un".
27186 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
27187 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27188 Reported by "troll_un".
27189 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
27190 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
27191 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
27192 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
27195 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
27196 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
27197 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
27198 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
27199 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
27200 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
27201 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
27202 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
27203 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
27204 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
27205 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27207 o Packaging changes:
27208 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
27209 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
27212 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
27213 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
27214 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
27215 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
27216 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
27218 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
27219 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
27221 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27222 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
27223 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
27224 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
27225 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27226 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
27227 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
27228 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
27229 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
27232 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27235 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
27236 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
27237 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
27238 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
27239 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
27240 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
27241 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
27244 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
27245 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
27246 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
27247 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
27248 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
27249 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
27250 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
27251 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
27252 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
27253 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
27254 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
27255 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
27256 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
27257 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
27258 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
27259 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
27260 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
27261 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
27262 Resolves ticket 4526.
27263 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
27264 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
27265 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
27266 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
27267 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
27268 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
27269 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
27270 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
27271 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
27272 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
27273 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
27274 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
27275 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
27276 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
27277 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
27278 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
27281 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
27282 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
27283 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
27284 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
27285 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
27286 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
27287 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
27288 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
27289 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
27290 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
27292 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
27293 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
27294 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
27295 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
27296 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
27297 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
27298 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
27299 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
27300 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
27302 o Minor features (new/different config options):
27303 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
27304 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
27305 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
27306 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
27307 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
27308 Implements issue 933.
27309 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
27310 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
27311 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
27312 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
27313 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
27314 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
27315 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
27316 appending to the list.
27317 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
27318 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
27319 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
27320 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
27322 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
27323 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
27324 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
27325 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
27326 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
27327 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
27328 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
27329 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
27332 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
27333 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
27334 Resolves ticket 2474.
27335 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
27336 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
27337 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
27338 Required by fix for bug 3460.
27339 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
27340 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
27341 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
27342 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
27343 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
27344 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
27345 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
27346 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
27347 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
27349 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27350 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
27351 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
27353 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
27355 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
27356 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
27358 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
27359 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
27360 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
27361 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
27362 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
27363 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
27364 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
27366 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
27367 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
27368 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27369 Reported by "troll_un".
27370 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
27371 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27372 Reported by "troll_un".
27373 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
27374 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
27375 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
27376 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
27378 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
27379 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
27381 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
27382 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
27383 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
27384 with help from wanoskarnet.
27385 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
27386 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
27389 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
27390 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
27391 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
27392 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27394 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
27395 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
27396 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
27397 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
27398 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
27399 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
27400 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
27401 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
27404 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
27405 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
27406 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
27407 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
27408 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
27409 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
27410 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
27411 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
27412 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
27415 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
27416 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
27417 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
27418 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
27420 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
27421 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
27422 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
27423 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27424 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
27425 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
27426 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
27427 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
27428 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
27429 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
27430 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
27431 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
27432 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
27433 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
27434 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
27435 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
27436 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
27437 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
27438 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
27439 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
27440 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
27441 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
27442 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
27443 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
27446 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
27447 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
27448 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
27449 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
27450 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
27451 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27452 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
27453 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
27456 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27457 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
27458 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
27459 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
27460 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
27461 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
27462 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
27463 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
27464 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
27465 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
27466 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
27467 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
27468 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
27469 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
27470 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
27472 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
27473 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
27474 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
27475 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
27476 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27477 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
27478 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
27479 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27480 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
27481 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
27482 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
27483 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
27484 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
27485 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27486 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
27487 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
27488 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27490 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27491 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
27492 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
27493 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
27494 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27495 Found by frosty_un.
27496 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
27497 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
27498 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
27500 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
27501 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
27502 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
27504 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
27505 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
27507 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
27508 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27511 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
27512 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
27513 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
27514 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
27515 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
27516 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
27517 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
27518 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
27519 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
27520 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
27521 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
27522 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
27523 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
27524 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
27526 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
27527 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
27528 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27530 o Packaging changes:
27531 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
27532 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
27534 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27535 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
27536 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
27537 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
27538 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
27539 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
27540 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
27541 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
27542 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
27545 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
27547 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
27548 ./src/test/bench binary.
27549 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
27550 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
27553 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
27554 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
27555 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
27559 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
27560 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
27561 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
27562 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
27563 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
27564 close based on processing a cell on it.
27565 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
27566 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
27567 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27568 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
27569 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
27570 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
27571 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
27572 cells were introduced.
27575 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
27576 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
27579 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
27580 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
27581 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
27582 users. Everybody should upgrade.
27584 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
27585 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
27588 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
27589 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
27590 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
27591 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
27592 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
27593 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
27595 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
27596 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
27597 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
27598 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
27599 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
27600 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
27601 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
27602 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
27603 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
27604 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
27605 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
27606 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
27607 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
27608 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
27609 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
27610 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
27611 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
27612 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
27615 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
27616 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
27617 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
27618 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
27619 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
27620 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
27621 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
27622 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
27623 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
27624 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
27625 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
27626 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
27627 Partly fixes bug 3825.
27628 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
27629 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
27630 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
27631 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
27632 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
27633 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
27634 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
27636 o Major bugfixes (other):
27637 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
27638 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
27639 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
27640 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27641 Found by "frosty_un".
27642 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
27643 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
27644 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
27645 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
27646 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
27647 immensely in tracking this bug down.
27648 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
27649 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
27652 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27653 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
27654 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
27655 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
27656 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
27657 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
27658 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
27659 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
27660 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
27661 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
27662 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
27663 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
27664 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
27665 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27666 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
27667 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
27668 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
27669 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
27670 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
27671 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
27672 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
27674 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27675 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
27676 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
27677 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27678 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
27679 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
27680 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
27681 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
27682 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
27683 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
27684 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
27687 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
27688 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
27689 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
27690 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
27691 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
27692 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
27693 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
27694 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
27695 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
27696 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
27697 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
27698 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
27699 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
27700 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27702 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27703 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
27704 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
27705 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
27706 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
27707 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
27708 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
27709 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
27712 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
27713 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
27714 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
27716 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
27717 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
27718 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
27719 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
27720 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
27721 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
27722 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
27723 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
27724 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
27725 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
27726 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
27727 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
27728 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
27730 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
27731 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
27732 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
27733 currently connected to them.
27735 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
27736 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
27737 remain; see for example proposal 188.
27739 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
27740 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
27741 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
27742 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
27743 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
27744 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
27745 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
27746 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
27747 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
27748 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
27749 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
27750 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
27751 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
27752 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
27753 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
27754 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
27755 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
27756 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
27759 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
27760 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
27761 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
27762 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
27763 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
27764 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
27765 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
27766 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
27767 when bridges were introduced.
27768 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
27769 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
27770 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
27771 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27772 Found by "frosty_un".
27775 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
27776 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
27778 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
27779 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
27780 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
27781 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
27782 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
27783 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
27784 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
27787 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
27788 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
27789 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
27790 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
27791 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
27792 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
27793 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
27794 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
27795 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
27796 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
27797 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
27798 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
27799 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
27800 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
27801 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
27802 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
27803 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
27804 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
27806 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
27807 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
27808 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
27809 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27810 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
27811 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
27812 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
27813 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
27814 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
27815 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
27816 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
27817 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
27820 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
27821 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
27822 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
27823 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27826 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
27827 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
27828 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
27829 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
27830 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
27832 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27833 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
27834 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
27835 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
27836 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
27837 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
27838 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
27839 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
27840 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
27841 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
27843 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27844 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
27845 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
27846 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
27847 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
27848 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
27849 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
27850 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
27851 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
27852 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
27853 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
27854 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
27855 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
27856 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
27857 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27858 Found by "frosty_un".
27859 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
27860 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
27861 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
27862 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
27863 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
27864 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
27865 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
27866 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
27867 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
27868 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
27869 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
27870 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
27871 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27872 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
27873 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
27874 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
27875 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
27876 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
27877 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
27879 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27880 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
27881 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
27882 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
27883 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
27884 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
27885 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
27886 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
27888 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
27889 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
27890 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
27891 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
27892 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
27893 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
27894 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
27895 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
27896 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
27897 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
27898 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
27899 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
27901 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
27902 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27903 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
27904 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27905 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
27906 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27907 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
27908 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
27909 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
27911 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
27913 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
27914 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
27915 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
27916 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27917 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
27918 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
27919 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
27920 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27922 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
27923 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
27924 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
27925 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
27926 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
27928 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
27929 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
27930 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
27931 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
27932 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27935 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
27936 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
27937 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
27938 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
27939 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
27942 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
27943 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
27944 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
27945 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
27946 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
27947 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
27948 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
27949 when bridges were introduced.
27952 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
27953 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
27954 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27956 o Major features (networking):
27957 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
27958 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
27959 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
27960 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
27961 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
27965 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
27966 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
27967 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
27969 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
27970 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
27971 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
27972 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
27973 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
27975 o Minor features (diagnostics):
27976 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
27977 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
27980 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
27981 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
27982 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
27983 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
27984 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
27985 listed in the network consensus and republish.
27987 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
27988 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
27989 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
27990 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27992 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
27993 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
27994 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
27995 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
27996 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
27997 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
27998 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
27999 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
28000 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
28001 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
28002 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
28004 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28005 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28006 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28007 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
28008 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
28009 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
28010 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
28011 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
28012 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
28013 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28015 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28016 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
28017 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
28018 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
28019 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
28020 fixes part of bug 2442.
28021 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
28022 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
28023 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
28025 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
28026 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
28027 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
28028 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
28029 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28031 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
28032 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
28033 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
28034 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
28035 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
28038 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
28039 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
28040 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
28044 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
28045 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
28046 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
28047 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
28048 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
28049 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
28050 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
28053 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
28054 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
28055 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
28056 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
28057 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
28058 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
28059 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
28062 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
28063 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
28064 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
28065 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
28066 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
28067 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
28068 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
28069 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
28070 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28072 o Code refactoring:
28073 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
28074 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
28077 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
28078 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
28079 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
28080 reachable from Iran again.
28083 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
28084 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
28085 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28087 o Minor features (security):
28088 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
28089 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
28090 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
28091 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
28092 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
28093 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
28094 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
28095 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
28096 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
28097 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
28100 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
28101 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
28102 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
28103 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
28104 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
28105 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
28106 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
28107 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
28108 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28110 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
28111 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
28112 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
28113 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
28114 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
28115 raised by bug 3898.
28116 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
28117 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
28118 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
28119 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
28120 fixes part of bug 2442.
28121 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
28122 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
28123 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
28125 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
28126 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
28127 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
28128 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
28129 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28132 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
28133 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
28134 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
28135 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
28136 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
28137 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
28140 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
28141 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
28142 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
28143 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
28144 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
28145 bufferevent-based networking backend.
28147 o Major features (stream isolation):
28148 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
28149 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
28150 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
28151 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
28152 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
28153 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
28154 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
28155 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
28156 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
28157 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
28158 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
28159 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
28160 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
28161 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
28163 o Major features (other):
28164 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
28165 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
28166 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
28167 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
28168 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
28169 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
28170 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
28171 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
28172 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
28173 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
28174 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
28175 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
28176 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
28178 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
28179 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
28181 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
28182 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
28183 Fixes part of bug 3752.
28184 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
28185 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
28186 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
28187 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
28188 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
28189 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
28190 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
28191 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
28192 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
28193 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
28194 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
28195 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
28196 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
28197 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
28198 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
28199 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
28200 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
28202 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
28203 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
28204 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
28205 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
28206 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
28207 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
28210 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
28211 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
28212 user. Implements ticket 1692.
28213 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
28214 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
28215 best copy data out of a buffer.
28216 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
28217 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
28218 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
28220 o Minor features (build compatibility):
28221 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
28222 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
28223 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
28225 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
28226 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28228 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
28229 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
28230 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
28231 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
28232 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
28233 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
28234 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28236 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
28237 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
28238 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
28239 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
28240 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
28241 raised by bug 3898.
28242 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
28243 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
28244 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
28247 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
28248 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
28249 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
28250 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
28251 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
28252 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
28253 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
28254 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
28255 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
28256 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
28257 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
28258 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28259 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
28260 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
28261 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
28262 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
28263 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
28264 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
28265 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
28268 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28269 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
28270 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
28274 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
28275 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
28276 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
28277 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
28278 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
28279 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
28282 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
28283 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
28284 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
28285 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
28286 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
28287 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
28288 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
28289 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
28290 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
28291 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
28293 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
28294 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
28295 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
28296 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
28297 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
28298 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
28299 many many other features and bugfixes.
28302 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
28303 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
28304 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
28307 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
28308 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
28309 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
28310 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
28311 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
28312 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
28313 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
28314 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
28317 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28320 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
28321 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
28322 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28323 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
28324 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
28325 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
28326 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
28327 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
28328 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
28329 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
28330 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
28331 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
28332 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
28333 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28334 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
28335 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
28336 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
28337 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
28341 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
28342 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
28343 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
28344 up a variety of recently introduced features.
28347 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
28348 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
28349 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
28350 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
28351 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
28352 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
28353 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
28354 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
28355 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
28356 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
28357 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
28358 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
28359 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
28360 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
28361 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
28362 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
28364 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
28365 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
28366 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
28367 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
28368 order. Fixes bug 2798.
28369 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
28370 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
28371 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
28372 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
28373 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
28374 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
28378 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
28379 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
28380 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
28381 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
28383 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
28384 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
28385 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
28386 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
28387 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
28388 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
28389 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
28390 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
28391 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
28392 Implements ticket 3264.
28393 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
28394 implements ticket 3439.
28396 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
28397 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
28398 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
28399 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
28400 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
28401 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
28402 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
28403 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
28404 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
28405 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
28406 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
28407 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
28408 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
28409 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
28410 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
28411 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
28412 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
28413 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
28414 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
28415 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
28416 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
28417 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
28418 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
28419 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
28420 fails. Spotted by coverity.
28421 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
28422 present. Found by coverity.
28423 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
28424 a directory cache that provides them.
28426 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28427 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
28428 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
28429 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
28430 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
28431 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
28433 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
28434 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
28435 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
28436 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
28437 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
28438 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28439 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
28440 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
28442 o Code simplification and refactoring:
28443 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
28444 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
28445 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
28446 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
28447 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
28448 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
28450 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
28454 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
28455 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
28456 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
28459 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
28460 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
28461 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
28462 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
28465 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
28466 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
28467 discovered by katmagic.
28468 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
28469 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
28470 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
28471 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28472 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
28473 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
28474 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
28475 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
28476 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
28477 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
28478 fixes part of bug 3465.
28479 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
28480 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
28484 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28487 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
28488 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
28489 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
28490 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
28491 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
28494 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
28495 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
28496 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
28497 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
28498 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
28501 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
28502 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
28503 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
28504 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
28505 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
28506 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
28509 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
28510 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
28511 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
28512 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
28513 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
28514 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
28515 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
28516 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
28517 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
28518 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
28519 fixes part of bug 3407.
28520 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
28521 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
28522 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
28523 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
28524 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
28525 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
28526 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
28527 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
28528 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
28529 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
28531 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
28532 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
28533 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
28534 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
28537 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28539 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28540 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
28541 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
28543 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
28545 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
28548 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
28549 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
28550 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
28551 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
28552 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
28553 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
28557 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
28558 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
28559 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
28560 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28561 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
28562 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
28563 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
28565 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
28566 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
28567 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
28568 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
28569 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
28570 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
28571 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
28572 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
28573 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
28574 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
28575 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
28576 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
28577 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
28578 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
28579 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
28580 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
28581 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
28582 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
28583 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
28587 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
28588 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
28589 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
28590 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
28591 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
28592 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
28593 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
28594 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
28595 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
28599 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
28600 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
28601 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
28603 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
28605 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
28606 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
28607 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
28608 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
28609 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28610 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
28611 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
28612 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
28613 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
28615 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
28616 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
28617 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
28618 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
28619 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
28620 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
28622 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
28623 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
28625 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
28626 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
28627 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
28630 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
28631 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
28632 Resolves ticket 3252.
28633 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
28634 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
28635 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
28636 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
28637 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
28638 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
28641 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
28642 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
28645 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
28646 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
28647 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
28650 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
28651 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
28652 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
28653 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
28654 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
28657 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
28658 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
28659 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
28660 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
28661 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
28662 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
28663 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
28664 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
28665 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
28669 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
28670 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
28671 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
28672 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
28673 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
28675 o Security/privacy fixes:
28676 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
28677 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
28678 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
28679 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
28680 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
28681 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
28682 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
28683 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
28684 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
28685 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
28686 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
28687 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
28688 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
28689 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
28690 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28693 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
28694 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
28695 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
28696 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
28697 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
28698 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
28699 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
28700 part of ticket 3076.
28701 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
28702 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
28703 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
28707 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
28708 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
28709 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
28710 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
28711 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
28712 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
28713 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
28714 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
28716 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
28717 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
28718 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
28719 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
28720 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
28721 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
28722 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
28723 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
28724 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
28725 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
28726 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
28727 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
28728 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28731 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
28732 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
28733 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
28734 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
28735 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
28736 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
28737 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
28739 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
28740 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
28741 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
28742 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
28743 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
28744 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
28745 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
28746 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
28747 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
28748 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
28749 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
28750 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
28751 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
28752 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
28753 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
28754 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
28756 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
28757 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
28759 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
28760 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
28762 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
28763 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
28765 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
28766 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
28767 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28769 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
28770 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
28771 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
28772 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
28773 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
28774 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
28775 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
28776 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
28777 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
28778 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
28779 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
28781 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
28782 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
28783 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
28784 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
28785 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
28786 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
28787 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
28788 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
28789 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
28790 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
28791 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28792 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
28793 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
28796 o Removed features:
28797 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
28798 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
28799 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
28803 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
28804 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
28805 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
28806 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
28807 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
28808 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
28810 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
28811 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
28812 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
28815 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
28816 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
28817 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
28818 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
28819 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
28820 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
28821 zero-copy transports where available.
28822 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
28823 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
28824 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
28825 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
28826 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
28827 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
28828 debug it as it breaks.
28829 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
28830 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
28831 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
28832 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
28833 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
28834 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
28835 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
28836 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
28837 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
28838 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
28839 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
28840 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
28841 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
28842 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
28843 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
28844 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
28845 PortForwarding option.
28846 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
28847 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
28848 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
28849 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
28850 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
28851 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
28852 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
28855 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
28856 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
28857 Implements enhancement 1668.
28858 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
28860 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
28861 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
28862 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
28863 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
28864 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
28865 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
28866 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
28868 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
28869 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
28870 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
28871 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
28872 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
28873 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
28874 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
28876 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
28877 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
28878 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
28879 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
28880 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
28881 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
28882 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
28884 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
28885 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
28886 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
28887 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
28888 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
28889 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
28890 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
28891 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
28892 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
28893 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
28894 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
28895 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
28896 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
28897 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
28898 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
28901 o Minor features (controller):
28902 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
28903 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
28904 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
28905 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
28906 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
28907 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
28908 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
28911 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
28912 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
28913 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
28914 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
28915 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
28916 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
28917 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
28918 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
28920 o Minor packaging issues:
28921 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
28922 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
28924 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28925 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
28926 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
28927 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
28928 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
28929 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
28930 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
28931 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
28932 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
28933 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
28934 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
28935 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
28936 our library structure used to force them to link it.
28938 o Removed features:
28939 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
28940 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
28941 are no longer in use as servers.
28943 o Documentation fixes:
28944 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
28945 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
28946 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
28950 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
28951 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
28952 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
28953 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
28954 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
28955 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
28956 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
28957 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
28958 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
28959 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
28962 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
28963 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
28964 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
28965 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
28966 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
28967 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
28968 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
28969 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
28970 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
28971 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28972 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
28973 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
28974 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
28975 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
28976 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
28977 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
28979 o Security and stability fixes:
28980 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
28981 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
28982 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
28983 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
28984 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
28985 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
28986 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
28987 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
28988 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
28989 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
28990 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
28991 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
28992 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28993 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
28994 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
28995 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
28998 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
28999 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
29000 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
29001 contributions to the network.
29003 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
29004 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
29005 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
29006 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
29007 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
29008 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
29009 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
29010 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
29011 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
29012 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
29013 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
29014 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
29015 connections to directory servers.
29016 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
29017 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
29018 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
29019 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
29020 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
29021 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
29022 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
29023 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
29024 information, or fetch directory information.
29025 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
29026 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
29027 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
29028 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
29029 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
29030 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
29031 unless you really want your Tor to break.
29032 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
29033 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
29034 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
29035 - When StrictNodes is 1:
29036 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
29037 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
29038 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
29039 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
29040 reachability self-tests.
29041 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
29042 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
29043 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
29044 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
29045 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29046 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
29047 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
29049 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
29050 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29051 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
29052 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
29053 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
29054 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29055 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
29056 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
29057 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
29058 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
29059 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
29062 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
29063 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
29064 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
29065 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
29066 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
29067 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
29068 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
29069 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
29070 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
29071 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
29072 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
29073 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29074 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
29075 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
29076 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
29077 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
29078 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
29080 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
29081 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
29082 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
29083 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
29084 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29085 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
29086 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29087 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
29088 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
29089 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
29090 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
29091 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
29092 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
29093 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
29094 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
29095 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
29096 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
29097 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
29098 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
29099 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
29102 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
29103 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
29104 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
29105 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
29106 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
29107 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
29108 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
29109 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
29110 Required by fix for bug 3000.
29111 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
29112 by fix for bug 3000.
29113 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
29114 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
29116 o Code simplification and refactoring:
29117 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
29118 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
29119 send a body too). Since only server versions before
29120 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
29121 keep the workaround in place.
29122 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
29123 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
29124 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
29125 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
29126 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
29127 want to do it differently.
29128 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
29129 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
29130 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
29131 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
29132 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
29136 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
29137 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
29138 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
29139 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
29140 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
29143 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
29144 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
29145 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
29146 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
29147 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
29149 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
29150 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
29151 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
29152 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
29153 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
29154 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
29155 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
29156 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
29157 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
29158 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
29159 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
29160 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
29163 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
29164 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
29165 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
29166 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
29167 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
29168 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
29169 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
29171 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
29172 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
29173 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
29174 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
29175 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
29176 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
29177 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
29178 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
29179 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
29180 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
29181 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
29182 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
29183 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
29184 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
29185 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
29186 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
29187 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
29188 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
29189 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
29190 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
29191 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
29192 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
29193 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29196 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
29197 networkstatus vote.
29198 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
29199 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
29200 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
29202 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
29203 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
29204 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
29205 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
29207 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
29208 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
29209 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
29210 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29213 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
29214 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
29216 o Documentation changes:
29217 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
29218 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
29220 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
29223 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
29224 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
29225 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
29226 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
29227 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
29228 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
29231 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
29232 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
29233 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
29234 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
29235 the rest of bug 1074.
29236 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
29237 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
29238 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
29239 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
29240 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
29241 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
29242 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29243 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
29244 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
29245 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
29246 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
29247 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
29248 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
29249 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29252 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
29253 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
29254 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
29255 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
29256 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
29257 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
29258 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
29259 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
29260 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
29261 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
29262 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
29263 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
29264 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
29265 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
29267 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29268 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
29269 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
29270 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
29271 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
29272 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
29274 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
29275 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
29276 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
29277 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
29278 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
29279 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
29280 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
29281 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
29282 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
29283 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
29284 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
29285 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
29286 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
29287 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
29288 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
29289 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
29290 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
29291 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
29292 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
29293 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
29294 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
29295 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
29296 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
29297 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29298 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
29299 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
29301 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
29302 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
29303 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
29304 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
29305 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
29306 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
29308 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
29309 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
29310 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
29312 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29313 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
29314 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
29315 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
29316 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
29317 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
29318 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
29319 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
29320 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
29321 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
29322 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
29323 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
29324 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
29328 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
29329 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
29330 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
29331 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
29332 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
29333 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
29334 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
29335 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
29336 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
29337 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
29338 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
29339 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
29341 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29343 o Minor features (log subsystem):
29344 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
29345 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
29346 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
29348 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
29349 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
29351 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
29352 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
29353 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
29356 o Packaging changes:
29357 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
29358 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
29359 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
29362 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
29363 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
29364 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
29365 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
29366 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
29367 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
29370 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
29371 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
29372 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
29373 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
29374 the rest of bug 1074.
29375 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
29376 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29377 Found by "piebeer".
29378 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
29379 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
29380 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
29381 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
29382 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
29383 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
29384 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29387 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
29389 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29392 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
29393 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
29394 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
29395 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
29396 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
29397 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
29398 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
29399 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
29400 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
29401 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
29402 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29404 o Packaging changes:
29405 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
29406 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
29407 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
29408 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
29409 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
29410 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
29413 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
29414 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
29415 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
29416 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
29417 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
29418 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
29421 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
29422 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29423 Found by "piebeer".
29424 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
29425 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
29426 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
29427 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
29430 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
29432 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
29433 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
29434 Implements ticket 2432.
29437 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
29438 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
29439 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
29442 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
29443 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
29444 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
29445 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
29446 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
29447 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
29449 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
29450 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
29451 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
29452 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
29454 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
29455 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
29456 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
29457 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
29458 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
29459 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
29460 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
29461 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
29463 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
29464 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
29465 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
29466 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
29467 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
29468 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
29469 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
29470 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
29471 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
29472 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
29473 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
29474 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
29475 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
29476 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
29479 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
29480 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
29481 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
29482 bug reported by doorss.
29483 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
29484 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
29485 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29486 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
29487 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
29489 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
29490 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
29491 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
29492 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
29493 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
29495 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
29496 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29497 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
29499 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
29500 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
29501 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
29502 Automake 1.7 or later.
29503 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
29504 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
29505 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
29506 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
29508 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29509 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
29510 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
29513 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29514 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
29515 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
29516 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
29518 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29519 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
29520 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
29521 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
29522 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
29523 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
29524 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
29525 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
29526 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
29528 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
29529 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
29530 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
29533 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29534 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
29535 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
29536 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
29537 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
29538 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
29539 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
29540 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
29541 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
29542 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
29543 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
29544 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
29545 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
29547 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
29548 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
29552 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
29553 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
29554 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
29555 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
29556 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
29558 o Major bugfixes (security):
29559 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
29560 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
29561 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
29563 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
29564 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
29565 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
29566 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
29567 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
29568 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
29569 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
29570 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
29572 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
29573 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
29574 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
29575 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
29576 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
29577 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
29578 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
29579 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
29580 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
29581 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
29582 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
29583 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
29584 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
29585 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
29588 o Minor bugfixes (other):
29589 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
29590 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
29591 bug reported by doorss.
29592 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
29593 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
29594 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29595 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
29596 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
29598 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
29599 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
29600 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
29601 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
29602 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
29603 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
29604 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
29605 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
29606 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
29609 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29610 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
29613 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
29614 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
29615 Automake 1.7 or later.
29618 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
29619 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
29620 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
29621 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
29622 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
29625 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
29626 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
29627 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
29628 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
29629 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
29630 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
29631 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
29632 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
29633 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
29634 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
29635 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
29637 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
29638 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
29639 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
29640 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
29642 o Directory authority changes:
29643 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
29646 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
29647 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
29648 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
29649 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
29650 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
29651 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
29652 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
29653 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
29654 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
29657 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29658 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
29659 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
29660 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
29661 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
29662 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
29663 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
29664 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
29665 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
29666 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
29670 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
29671 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
29672 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
29673 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
29677 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
29678 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
29679 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
29680 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
29682 o Directory authority changes:
29683 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
29686 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29689 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
29690 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
29691 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
29692 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
29693 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
29696 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
29697 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
29698 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
29699 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
29700 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29701 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
29702 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
29703 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
29704 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
29705 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29706 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
29707 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
29708 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
29709 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
29710 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
29711 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
29712 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
29713 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
29714 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
29715 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
29716 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
29717 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
29718 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
29721 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
29722 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
29723 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
29724 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
29726 o New directory authorities:
29727 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
29731 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
29732 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
29733 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
29735 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
29736 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
29737 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
29738 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
29739 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
29740 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
29742 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
29743 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
29744 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
29747 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
29748 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
29749 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
29750 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
29751 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
29752 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
29753 Patch from mingw-san.
29756 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
29757 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
29758 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
29759 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
29760 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
29761 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
29764 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
29765 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
29766 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
29769 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
29770 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
29771 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
29772 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
29773 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
29776 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
29777 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
29778 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
29779 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
29780 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
29781 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
29782 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
29783 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
29784 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
29787 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
29788 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
29789 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
29790 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
29791 to a stable release.
29794 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
29795 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
29796 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
29797 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
29798 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
29799 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
29800 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
29801 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
29802 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
29803 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
29804 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
29805 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
29806 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
29807 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
29808 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
29809 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
29810 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
29811 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
29812 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
29813 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
29814 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
29815 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
29816 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
29817 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
29818 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
29819 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
29820 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
29821 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
29822 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
29823 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
29824 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
29827 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29828 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
29829 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
29830 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
29831 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
29832 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
29833 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
29834 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
29835 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
29836 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
29837 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
29838 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
29839 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
29840 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29841 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
29842 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
29843 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
29845 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
29846 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
29847 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
29848 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
29849 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
29851 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
29852 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
29853 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
29854 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
29857 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
29858 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
29859 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
29860 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
29861 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
29862 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
29863 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
29864 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29866 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29867 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
29868 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
29869 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
29870 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
29871 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
29872 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
29873 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
29874 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
29875 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
29876 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
29877 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
29878 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
29879 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
29880 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
29883 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
29884 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
29885 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
29886 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
29887 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
29888 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
29889 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
29890 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
29891 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
29894 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
29895 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
29896 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
29897 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
29898 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
29900 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
29901 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
29902 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
29903 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
29904 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
29905 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
29906 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
29907 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
29908 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
29909 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
29910 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
29911 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
29912 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
29913 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
29915 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29916 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
29918 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
29919 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
29920 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
29921 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
29922 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
29923 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
29924 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
29925 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
29926 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
29927 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
29928 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
29929 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
29930 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
29931 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
29932 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
29933 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
29934 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
29935 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29937 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
29938 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
29939 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
29940 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
29941 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
29942 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
29943 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
29944 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
29945 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
29946 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
29947 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
29948 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
29949 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
29951 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
29952 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
29953 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
29954 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29957 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
29958 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
29959 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
29960 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
29961 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
29962 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
29963 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
29964 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
29965 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
29966 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
29967 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
29968 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
29969 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
29970 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
29971 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
29972 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
29973 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
29974 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
29975 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
29978 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29979 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
29980 based on the time during which we were active and not in
29981 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
29982 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
29983 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
29984 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
29985 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
29987 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29988 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
29989 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
29990 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
29991 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
29992 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
29993 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
29994 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
29995 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
29996 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
29999 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
30000 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
30001 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
30002 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
30004 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
30005 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
30006 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
30007 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
30008 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
30009 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
30010 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
30011 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
30012 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
30013 the longest-lived bug prize.
30014 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
30015 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
30016 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
30017 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
30018 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
30019 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
30021 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
30022 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
30023 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
30024 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
30025 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
30026 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
30030 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30031 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
30032 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
30033 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
30034 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
30035 got suppressed since the last warning.
30036 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
30037 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
30038 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
30039 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
30040 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
30041 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
30042 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
30043 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
30044 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
30045 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
30046 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
30047 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
30048 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
30049 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
30050 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
30051 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
30052 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
30053 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
30054 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
30056 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
30057 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
30058 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
30060 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30061 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
30062 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
30063 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
30064 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
30065 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
30066 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
30067 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
30068 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
30069 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
30070 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
30071 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
30072 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
30073 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
30074 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
30076 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
30077 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
30078 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
30079 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
30080 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
30081 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30082 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
30084 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
30085 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
30086 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
30087 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
30088 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
30091 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30092 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
30093 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
30094 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
30095 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
30096 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
30097 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
30098 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
30099 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
30100 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
30101 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30102 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
30103 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
30104 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
30105 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
30106 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
30107 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
30108 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
30111 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
30114 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
30115 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
30116 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
30117 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
30118 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
30122 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
30123 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
30124 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
30125 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
30126 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
30127 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
30128 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
30129 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
30130 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
30131 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
30132 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
30133 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
30134 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
30135 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
30136 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
30137 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
30138 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
30141 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
30142 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
30143 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
30144 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
30145 they first get the Guard flag.
30146 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
30150 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30151 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
30152 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
30153 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
30154 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
30155 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
30156 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
30157 Patch from mingw-san.
30158 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
30159 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
30161 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
30162 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
30163 Implements enhancement 1790.
30165 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30166 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
30167 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
30168 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
30169 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
30170 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
30171 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
30172 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
30173 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
30174 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
30175 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
30176 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
30177 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
30178 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
30179 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
30180 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
30181 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
30182 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
30183 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
30184 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
30186 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
30187 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
30188 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
30189 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
30190 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
30191 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
30192 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
30193 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
30194 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
30195 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
30196 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
30197 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
30198 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
30200 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
30201 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
30202 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
30203 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
30204 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
30205 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
30207 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30208 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
30209 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
30210 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
30211 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
30212 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
30213 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
30214 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
30215 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
30216 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
30217 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
30218 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
30220 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
30221 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
30222 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
30223 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
30224 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
30225 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
30226 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
30228 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
30230 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
30231 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
30232 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
30233 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
30234 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
30235 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
30237 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30238 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
30239 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
30240 structures and defines in or.h for now.
30241 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
30242 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
30243 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
30244 statistics code to be more easily tested.
30245 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
30246 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
30247 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
30250 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
30251 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
30252 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
30253 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
30254 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
30255 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
30259 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
30260 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
30261 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
30262 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
30263 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
30264 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
30265 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
30266 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
30267 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
30268 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
30269 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
30270 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
30271 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
30273 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
30274 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
30275 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
30276 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
30277 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
30278 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
30279 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
30280 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
30281 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
30282 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
30283 can be controlled by the consensus.
30286 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
30287 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
30288 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
30289 more accurate data for many African countries.
30290 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
30291 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
30292 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
30293 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
30294 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
30295 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
30296 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
30297 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
30298 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
30299 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
30300 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
30301 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
30303 o New directory authorities:
30304 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
30308 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
30309 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
30310 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
30311 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
30312 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
30313 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
30314 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
30315 what should go in a patch.
30316 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
30317 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
30318 over our stored history.
30319 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
30320 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
30321 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
30322 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
30323 file. Fixes bug 1296.
30324 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
30325 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
30326 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
30330 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
30332 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
30333 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
30334 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
30335 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
30336 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
30337 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
30338 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
30339 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
30340 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
30341 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
30342 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
30343 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30344 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
30345 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
30346 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
30347 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
30348 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
30349 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
30350 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
30351 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
30352 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
30353 two-hop circuits are actually created.
30354 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
30355 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
30356 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
30357 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30360 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
30361 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
30362 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
30363 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
30364 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
30366 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
30367 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
30370 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
30371 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
30372 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
30373 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
30374 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
30375 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
30376 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
30377 their directory fetches over TLS).
30378 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
30379 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
30380 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
30381 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
30382 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
30383 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
30384 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
30385 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
30388 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
30389 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
30393 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
30394 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30395 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
30396 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
30397 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
30398 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
30399 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30402 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
30403 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
30404 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
30405 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
30406 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
30409 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
30410 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
30411 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
30412 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
30413 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
30414 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
30415 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
30416 their directory fetches over TLS).
30419 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
30420 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
30422 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
30423 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
30424 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
30425 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
30426 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
30427 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
30428 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
30429 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
30430 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
30431 hour of their uptime.
30434 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
30435 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
30436 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
30440 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
30441 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
30442 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
30443 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
30444 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
30445 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
30447 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
30448 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
30449 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
30451 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
30452 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
30456 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
30457 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
30458 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
30462 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
30463 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
30464 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
30467 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
30468 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
30469 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
30470 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
30471 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
30472 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
30473 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
30474 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
30475 about the option without breaking older ones.
30476 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
30477 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
30478 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
30479 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
30482 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
30483 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
30484 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
30485 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
30487 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
30488 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
30489 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
30492 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
30493 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
30495 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
30496 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
30497 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
30498 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
30499 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
30500 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
30501 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
30502 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
30503 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
30504 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
30505 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
30508 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
30509 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30510 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
30511 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
30512 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
30513 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
30514 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30517 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
30518 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
30519 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
30520 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
30521 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
30522 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
30525 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
30526 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
30527 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
30528 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
30530 o Major features (performance):
30531 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
30532 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
30533 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
30534 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
30535 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
30536 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
30537 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
30539 o Minor features (performance):
30540 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
30541 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
30542 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
30543 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
30544 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
30548 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
30549 speeds up the build considerably.
30551 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30552 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
30553 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
30554 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
30555 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30556 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
30557 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
30558 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
30560 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
30561 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
30562 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
30564 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
30565 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
30566 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
30567 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
30569 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30570 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
30571 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
30572 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
30573 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
30574 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
30577 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
30578 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
30579 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
30581 o Directory authority changes:
30582 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
30583 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
30584 service directory authority) from the list.
30587 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
30588 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
30589 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
30590 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
30591 libraries in a security patch.
30592 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
30593 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
30594 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
30595 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
30597 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
30598 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
30599 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
30600 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
30601 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
30602 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
30603 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
30606 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
30607 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
30608 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
30609 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
30610 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
30611 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
30612 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
30613 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
30614 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
30615 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
30616 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
30617 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
30618 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
30620 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
30621 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
30622 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
30623 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
30624 control-spec.txt said they were.
30625 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
30626 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
30627 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
30628 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
30629 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30631 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30632 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
30633 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
30634 produce nicer HTML.
30635 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
30636 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
30637 iPhone SDK versions.
30638 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
30639 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
30640 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
30641 projects directory in svn.
30642 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
30643 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
30644 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
30645 high latency links.
30648 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
30649 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
30650 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
30652 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
30653 to the circuit build timeout.
30654 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
30655 arguments we do not recognize.
30656 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
30657 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
30658 open() without checking it.
30661 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
30662 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
30663 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
30664 several minor potential security bugs.
30667 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
30668 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
30669 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
30670 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
30671 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
30672 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
30673 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
30676 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
30677 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
30679 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
30680 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
30681 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
30682 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
30686 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
30687 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
30691 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
30692 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
30693 customized patches to run/build.
30696 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
30697 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
30698 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
30701 o Major bugfixes (performance):
30702 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
30703 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
30704 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
30705 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
30706 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
30707 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
30708 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
30711 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
30712 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
30713 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
30714 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
30715 libraries in a security patch.
30716 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
30717 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
30718 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
30719 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
30722 o Directory authority changes:
30723 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
30724 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
30725 service directory authority) from the list.
30728 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
30729 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
30732 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
30733 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
30734 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
30735 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
30736 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
30739 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
30740 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
30741 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
30745 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
30746 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
30747 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
30748 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
30749 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30752 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
30753 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
30754 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
30758 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
30759 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
30760 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
30761 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
30762 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
30764 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
30765 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
30767 o Directory authority changes:
30768 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
30771 o Major features (performance):
30772 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
30773 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
30774 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
30775 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
30776 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
30777 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
30778 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
30779 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
30780 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
30781 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
30782 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
30783 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
30784 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
30786 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
30787 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
30788 but never per-conn write limits.
30789 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
30790 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
30791 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
30792 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
30794 o Major features (relay selection options):
30795 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
30796 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
30797 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
30798 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
30799 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
30800 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
30801 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
30803 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
30804 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
30806 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
30807 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
30808 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
30809 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
30810 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
30811 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
30812 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
30813 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
30814 the network changes.
30817 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
30818 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
30819 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30822 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
30823 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
30824 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
30825 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
30826 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
30827 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
30828 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
30829 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
30830 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
30831 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
30832 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
30833 generated while acting as a relay.
30834 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
30835 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
30836 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
30837 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
30838 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
30839 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
30841 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
30842 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
30843 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
30844 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
30845 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
30846 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
30849 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
30850 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
30851 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
30853 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
30854 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
30855 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
30857 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
30858 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
30860 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
30861 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
30862 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
30864 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
30865 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
30868 o Minor bugfixes (other):
30869 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
30870 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
30871 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
30872 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
30873 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
30874 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
30875 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
30876 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
30878 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
30881 o Removed features:
30882 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
30883 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
30884 hidden service usage.
30887 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
30888 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
30889 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
30890 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
30891 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
30893 o Directory authority changes:
30894 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
30898 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
30899 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
30900 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30903 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
30904 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
30905 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
30906 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
30907 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
30910 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
30911 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
30912 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
30913 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
30914 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
30915 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
30916 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
30919 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
30920 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
30921 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30922 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
30923 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
30924 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
30926 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
30927 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
30930 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
30931 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
30932 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
30933 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
30934 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
30935 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
30938 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
30939 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
30940 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
30942 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
30943 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
30944 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
30945 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
30946 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
30947 download consensus + microdescriptors".
30948 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
30949 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
30950 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
30951 hash algorithm in the future.
30952 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
30953 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
30954 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
30955 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
30956 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
30957 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
30958 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
30959 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
30960 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
30963 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
30964 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
30965 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
30966 won't work unless we say we are.
30969 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
30970 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
30971 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
30972 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
30973 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
30974 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
30975 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
30976 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
30977 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30978 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
30979 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
30980 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
30981 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
30982 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
30983 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
30984 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
30985 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
30986 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
30987 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
30988 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
30989 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
30990 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
30993 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
30994 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
30995 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
30996 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
30998 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
30999 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
31001 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
31002 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
31003 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
31004 in the Vidalia Settings window.
31007 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
31008 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
31009 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
31010 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
31011 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
31013 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
31014 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
31016 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
31017 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
31018 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
31021 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
31022 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
31023 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
31025 o New directory authorities:
31026 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
31028 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
31031 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
31032 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
31034 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
31035 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
31036 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31037 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
31038 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
31039 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
31040 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31041 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
31042 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
31043 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
31044 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
31045 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
31046 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
31047 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
31048 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
31049 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
31050 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
31052 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
31053 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
31054 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
31056 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
31057 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
31061 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
31062 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
31063 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
31064 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
31065 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
31068 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
31069 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31072 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31074 o Directory authorities:
31075 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
31079 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
31080 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
31081 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
31082 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
31083 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
31086 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
31087 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
31088 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
31089 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
31091 o New directory authorities:
31092 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
31095 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
31096 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
31097 SSL handshake issues.
31098 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
31099 during the TLS handshake.
31100 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
31101 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
31102 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
31103 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
31104 none of which are very big.
31107 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
31109 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
31110 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31111 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
31112 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
31113 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31114 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
31115 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
31116 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
31119 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31120 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
31121 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
31122 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
31123 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
31126 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
31127 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31130 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
31131 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
31134 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
31135 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
31136 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31139 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
31140 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
31141 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
31142 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
31143 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
31144 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
31147 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
31148 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
31149 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
31150 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
31151 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
31152 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
31153 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
31154 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
31155 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
31156 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
31157 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
31158 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
31159 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
31160 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
31161 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
31162 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
31163 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
31164 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
31167 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
31168 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
31172 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
31173 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
31174 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
31175 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
31176 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
31177 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
31178 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31179 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
31180 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
31181 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
31182 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31183 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
31184 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
31185 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
31186 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
31187 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
31188 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
31189 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
31190 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
31191 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
31192 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
31194 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
31195 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
31196 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
31197 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31198 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
31199 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
31201 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
31202 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
31203 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
31206 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
31207 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
31208 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
31209 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
31210 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
31211 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
31214 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
31215 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
31216 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
31217 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
31218 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
31221 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
31222 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
31223 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
31226 o New directory authorities:
31227 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
31231 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
31232 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
31233 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
31234 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
31235 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
31238 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
31239 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
31240 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
31241 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
31242 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
31245 o New options for gathering stats safely:
31246 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
31247 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
31248 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
31249 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
31250 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
31251 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
31252 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
31253 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
31254 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
31256 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
31257 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
31258 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
31259 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
31261 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
31262 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
31263 their extra-info documents.
31266 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
31267 source files Tor was built with.
31268 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
31269 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
31270 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
31271 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
31272 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
31273 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
31275 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
31276 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
31277 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
31278 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
31279 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
31281 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
31282 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
31285 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
31286 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
31287 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
31288 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
31289 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
31291 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
31292 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
31294 o Deprecated and removed features:
31295 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
31296 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
31297 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
31298 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
31299 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
31300 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
31301 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
31302 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
31304 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
31305 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
31306 via application-level web tricks.
31308 o Packaging changes:
31309 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
31310 installer bundles. See
31311 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
31312 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
31313 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
31314 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
31315 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
31316 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
31317 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
31318 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
31319 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
31320 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
31321 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
31322 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
31325 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
31326 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
31327 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
31330 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
31331 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
31332 part of patch provided by "optimist".
31335 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
31336 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
31337 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
31338 and confuse fewer users.
31341 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
31342 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
31343 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
31344 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
31345 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
31346 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
31347 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
31350 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
31351 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
31352 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
31353 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
31354 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
31355 other features and bug fixes.
31358 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
31361 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
31362 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
31363 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
31364 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
31365 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
31368 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
31369 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
31370 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
31371 failure message (oops).
31374 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
31375 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
31376 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
31377 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
31381 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
31382 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
31383 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
31384 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
31385 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
31386 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
31387 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31388 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
31389 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
31390 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
31391 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
31392 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
31393 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
31394 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
31395 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
31398 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
31399 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
31400 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
31401 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
31402 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
31403 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
31404 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
31405 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
31406 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
31407 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
31408 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
31409 Workaround for bug 1024.
31410 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
31414 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
31415 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
31416 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
31419 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
31421 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
31422 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
31423 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
31424 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
31425 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
31428 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
31429 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
31430 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
31431 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
31432 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
31433 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
31434 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
31435 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
31436 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
31437 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
31440 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
31441 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
31442 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
31443 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
31444 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
31445 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
31446 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
31447 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
31450 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
31451 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
31452 a bunch of minor bugs.
31455 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
31456 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
31457 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
31459 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
31460 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
31461 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
31462 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
31464 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
31468 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
31469 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
31470 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
31472 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31473 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
31475 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
31476 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
31478 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
31479 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
31480 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
31481 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
31482 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
31483 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
31484 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
31485 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
31487 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
31488 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
31489 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
31491 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
31492 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
31493 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
31494 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
31495 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
31499 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
31500 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
31501 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
31502 of more minor bugs.
31504 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31505 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
31506 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
31507 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
31509 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31510 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
31511 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
31512 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31513 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
31514 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
31515 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
31516 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
31517 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
31518 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
31519 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
31520 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31521 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
31522 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
31523 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
31524 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
31525 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
31527 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
31528 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
31529 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
31530 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31532 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
31533 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
31534 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
31537 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
31538 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
31539 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
31540 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
31541 addresses to fall out of the directory.
31544 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
31545 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
31546 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
31547 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
31549 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
31550 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
31551 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
31552 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
31553 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
31554 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
31555 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
31556 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
31557 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
31558 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
31559 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
31560 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
31561 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
31562 patch by Sebastian.
31563 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
31564 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
31567 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
31568 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
31569 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
31570 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
31571 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
31572 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
31574 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
31575 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
31576 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
31577 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
31578 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
31580 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
31583 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
31584 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
31586 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
31587 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
31588 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31589 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31590 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
31591 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
31593 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
31594 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31595 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
31596 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
31597 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
31598 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
31599 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
31600 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
31601 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
31602 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
31603 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
31604 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
31608 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
31609 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
31610 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
31613 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
31614 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
31615 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31617 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
31618 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
31619 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
31620 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
31621 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
31622 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
31623 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
31624 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
31625 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
31626 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
31627 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
31628 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
31629 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
31630 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
31631 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
31632 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
31633 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
31634 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
31635 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
31636 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
31637 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
31638 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
31639 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
31640 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
31641 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
31642 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
31644 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
31645 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
31646 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
31647 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
31648 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
31649 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
31650 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
31651 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
31652 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
31653 of 0. Suggested by lark.
31655 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
31656 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
31657 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
31658 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
31659 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
31662 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
31664 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
31665 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
31666 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
31667 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
31670 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
31671 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
31672 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
31673 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
31674 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
31676 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
31677 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
31678 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
31679 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
31682 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
31683 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31684 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
31685 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
31686 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
31687 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
31688 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
31689 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
31692 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
31693 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
31694 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
31695 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
31698 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
31699 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
31700 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
31701 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
31702 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
31703 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
31706 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
31707 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31708 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
31709 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
31710 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
31711 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
31714 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
31715 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
31716 reported by Matt Edman.
31717 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
31719 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
31720 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
31721 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
31722 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
31724 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
31725 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
31726 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
31727 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31728 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
31729 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
31730 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
31731 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
31732 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
31733 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
31734 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
31735 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
31736 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
31737 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
31738 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
31739 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
31740 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
31741 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
31742 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31745 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
31746 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
31747 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
31748 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
31751 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
31752 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
31753 the letter of C99's alias rules.
31756 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
31757 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
31758 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
31759 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
31761 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
31762 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
31763 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
31766 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
31767 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
31770 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
31771 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
31772 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
31773 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
31774 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
31775 reported by "wood".
31776 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
31777 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
31778 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
31779 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
31780 identify a connection.
31781 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
31782 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
31783 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
31784 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
31785 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
31786 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
31787 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
31788 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
31789 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
31790 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
31792 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
31793 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
31794 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
31795 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
31796 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
31797 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
31798 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
31801 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
31802 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
31804 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
31805 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
31806 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
31807 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
31808 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
31809 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
31810 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31811 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
31813 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
31814 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
31815 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
31816 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
31817 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
31818 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
31819 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
31820 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
31821 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
31822 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
31823 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
31824 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
31825 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
31826 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
31827 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
31828 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
31829 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
31830 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
31831 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
31832 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
31833 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
31834 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
31835 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
31836 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
31837 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
31838 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
31839 840. Patch from rovv.
31840 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
31841 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
31842 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
31844 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
31845 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
31846 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
31847 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
31848 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
31849 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
31850 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
31852 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
31853 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
31854 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
31857 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
31858 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
31860 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
31861 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
31862 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
31863 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
31864 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
31865 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
31866 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
31867 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
31868 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
31870 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
31872 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
31873 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
31877 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
31878 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
31879 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
31880 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
31881 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
31882 have had some time to upgrade.)
31885 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
31886 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
31889 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
31890 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
31891 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
31892 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
31893 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
31896 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
31897 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
31899 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
31900 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
31901 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
31902 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
31903 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
31904 entirely. Patch from coderman.
31907 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
31908 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
31909 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
31910 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
31911 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
31912 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
31913 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
31917 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
31918 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
31919 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
31920 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
31921 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
31922 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
31923 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
31926 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
31927 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
31928 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
31929 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
31930 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
31932 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
31933 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
31934 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
31935 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
31936 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
31937 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
31938 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
31939 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
31940 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
31941 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
31945 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
31946 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
31947 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
31949 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
31950 without support for deprecated functions.
31951 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
31953 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31954 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
31955 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
31956 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
31957 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
31958 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
31959 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
31960 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
31961 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
31962 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
31963 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
31964 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
31965 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
31966 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
31967 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
31968 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
31969 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
31970 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
31971 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
31972 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
31973 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
31974 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
31975 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
31977 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
31978 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
31979 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
31980 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
31981 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
31982 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
31984 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
31985 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
31986 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
31987 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
31988 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
31990 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
31991 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
31992 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
31994 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
31995 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
31998 o Deprecated and removed features:
31999 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
32000 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
32001 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
32004 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32005 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
32006 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
32007 with log.h on Android.
32008 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
32009 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
32012 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
32013 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
32015 o New directory authorities:
32016 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
32020 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
32021 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
32022 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
32023 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
32024 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
32025 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32028 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
32029 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
32030 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
32031 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
32032 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
32033 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
32034 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
32035 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
32036 reported by "wood".
32037 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
32038 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
32039 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
32040 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
32043 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
32044 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
32046 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
32047 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
32048 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
32049 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
32050 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
32051 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
32052 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
32053 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
32054 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
32055 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
32056 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
32057 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
32058 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
32059 Implements proposal 148.
32060 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
32061 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
32062 system to do it for us.
32063 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
32064 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
32065 this fix will be slightly helpful.
32066 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
32067 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
32068 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
32069 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
32070 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
32071 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
32072 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
32073 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
32074 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
32077 o Minor features (controller):
32078 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
32079 been fetched and validated.
32080 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
32081 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
32082 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
32083 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
32084 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
32085 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
32088 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
32089 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32090 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
32091 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
32092 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
32094 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
32095 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
32096 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32097 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
32098 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
32099 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32100 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
32101 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
32102 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
32104 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32105 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
32106 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
32107 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
32108 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
32109 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
32110 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
32111 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
32113 o Deprecated and removed features:
32114 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
32116 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
32117 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
32118 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
32120 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32121 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
32122 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
32124 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
32125 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
32126 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
32127 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
32128 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
32129 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
32132 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
32133 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
32134 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
32135 fixes a variety of other issues.
32138 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
32139 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
32140 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
32141 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
32144 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
32145 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
32146 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
32147 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
32150 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
32151 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32152 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
32156 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
32158 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
32159 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
32160 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
32161 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
32162 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
32163 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
32164 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
32166 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
32167 rest, and don't automatically fail.
32168 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
32169 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32170 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
32171 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
32173 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
32174 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
32175 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
32176 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
32177 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
32178 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
32179 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
32180 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
32181 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
32182 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
32184 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
32188 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
32189 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
32190 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
32192 o Minor features (controller):
32193 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
32197 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
32198 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
32199 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
32200 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
32201 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
32202 variety of other issues.
32205 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
32206 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
32207 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
32208 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
32209 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
32210 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
32211 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
32212 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
32213 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
32214 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
32215 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
32216 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
32219 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
32220 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32222 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
32223 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
32224 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
32225 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
32226 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
32227 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
32228 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32229 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
32230 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
32231 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
32232 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
32233 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
32234 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
32235 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
32236 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
32240 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
32241 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
32242 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
32243 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
32244 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
32245 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
32246 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
32247 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
32248 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
32249 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
32250 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
32251 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
32252 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
32253 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
32254 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
32255 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
32256 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
32257 list. It has been gone for many months.
32258 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
32259 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
32260 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
32263 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32264 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
32265 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
32268 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
32269 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
32270 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
32271 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
32272 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
32273 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
32274 variety of other issues.
32277 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
32278 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
32279 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
32280 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
32281 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
32282 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
32283 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
32284 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
32285 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
32286 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
32287 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
32288 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
32289 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
32290 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
32293 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
32294 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
32295 Suggested by Lucky Green.
32296 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
32297 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
32298 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
32299 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
32300 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
32301 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
32303 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
32304 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
32306 o Hidden service performance improvements:
32307 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
32308 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
32309 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
32310 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
32311 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
32312 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
32313 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
32314 faster after restart.
32317 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
32318 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
32319 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
32320 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
32321 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
32322 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
32323 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
32324 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
32325 840. Patch from rovv.
32326 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
32327 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
32328 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
32329 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
32330 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
32331 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
32332 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
32333 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
32334 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
32336 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
32337 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
32338 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
32339 have already been marked for close.
32340 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
32341 introduction points.
32342 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
32343 memory performance during directory parsing.
32344 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
32345 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
32346 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
32347 because of a pending download.
32350 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
32351 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
32352 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
32353 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
32356 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
32357 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
32358 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
32359 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
32360 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
32361 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
32362 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
32363 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
32364 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
32365 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
32366 lookups more reliable.
32367 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
32368 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
32369 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
32370 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
32371 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
32372 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
32373 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
32376 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
32377 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
32378 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
32379 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
32380 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
32381 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
32382 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
32383 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
32384 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
32385 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
32386 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
32388 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
32389 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
32390 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
32391 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
32392 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
32393 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32394 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
32395 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
32396 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
32399 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
32400 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
32401 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
32402 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
32403 locked down these days.
32404 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
32405 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
32406 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
32407 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
32408 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
32410 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
32411 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
32412 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
32413 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
32414 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
32415 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
32416 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
32417 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
32418 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
32419 people find host:port too confusing.
32420 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
32421 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
32422 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
32425 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
32427 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
32428 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
32429 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
32430 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
32431 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
32433 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
32434 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
32435 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
32436 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
32437 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
32438 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
32439 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
32440 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
32441 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
32442 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
32443 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
32444 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
32446 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
32447 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
32448 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
32449 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
32450 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
32451 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
32452 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32453 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
32454 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
32456 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
32457 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
32458 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
32459 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
32460 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
32461 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32462 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
32463 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
32464 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
32465 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
32466 bug 820, reported by seeess.
32467 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
32468 list. It has been gone for many months.
32470 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32471 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
32472 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
32473 actual mistakes we're making here.
32474 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
32475 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
32476 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
32477 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
32480 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
32481 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
32482 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
32483 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
32486 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
32487 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
32488 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
32489 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
32490 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
32491 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
32493 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
32494 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
32495 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
32496 pointed out by rovv.
32499 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
32500 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32501 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
32502 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32503 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
32504 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
32505 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
32506 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
32507 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
32508 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32509 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
32510 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
32511 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
32512 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32513 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
32514 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
32515 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
32516 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
32517 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
32518 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
32519 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
32522 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
32523 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
32524 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
32525 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
32526 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
32527 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
32528 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
32531 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
32533 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
32534 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
32535 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
32536 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
32537 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
32538 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
32539 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
32541 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
32542 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
32543 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
32544 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
32545 known descriptor before building circuits.
32547 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
32548 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
32549 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
32550 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
32551 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
32552 identify a connection.
32553 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
32554 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
32555 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
32557 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
32558 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
32559 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
32560 pointed out by rovv.
32563 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
32564 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32565 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
32566 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
32567 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
32568 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32569 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
32570 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32571 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
32572 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
32573 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
32574 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
32575 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
32576 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
32577 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32580 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
32581 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
32582 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
32583 answer sections match.
32584 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
32585 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
32588 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
32589 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32592 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
32593 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
32594 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
32596 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
32597 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
32598 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
32601 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
32602 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
32603 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
32604 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
32607 o Removed features:
32608 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
32609 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
32612 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
32613 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
32614 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
32615 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
32616 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
32617 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
32619 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
32620 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
32621 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
32624 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
32625 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
32626 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
32627 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
32628 be sent using an "early" cell.
32631 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
32632 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
32633 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
32634 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
32635 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
32636 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
32637 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
32640 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
32641 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
32642 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
32643 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
32644 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
32645 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
32646 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
32647 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
32648 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
32649 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
32650 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
32651 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
32652 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
32653 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
32654 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
32655 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
32658 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
32659 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
32660 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
32661 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
32662 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
32663 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
32664 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
32665 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
32666 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
32668 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
32669 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
32670 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
32671 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
32672 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
32675 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
32676 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
32677 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
32678 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
32680 o Removed features:
32681 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
32682 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
32686 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
32688 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
32689 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
32690 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
32693 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
32694 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
32695 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
32698 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
32699 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
32700 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
32701 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
32702 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32703 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
32704 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
32705 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
32706 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32707 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
32708 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
32709 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
32710 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
32711 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
32712 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
32713 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
32714 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
32715 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
32716 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
32717 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
32718 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
32719 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
32720 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
32723 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
32724 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
32726 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
32727 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
32728 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
32729 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
32730 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
32731 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
32732 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
32734 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
32735 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
32736 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
32737 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
32738 found by Geoff Goodell.
32741 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
32742 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
32743 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
32744 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
32745 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
32746 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
32749 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
32750 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
32751 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
32754 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
32755 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
32756 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
32757 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
32758 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32759 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
32760 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
32761 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
32762 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32763 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
32764 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
32765 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
32766 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
32767 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
32770 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
32771 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
32772 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
32774 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
32775 fingerprints with or without space.
32776 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
32777 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
32778 partway through and wants to catch up.
32779 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
32780 state to start out in.
32783 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
32784 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
32785 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32786 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
32787 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
32790 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
32791 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
32792 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
32793 some of the connection attempts fail.
32794 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
32795 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
32796 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
32797 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
32798 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
32799 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
32801 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
32802 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
32803 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
32806 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
32807 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
32808 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
32809 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
32810 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
32811 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
32812 and adds a variety of smaller features.
32815 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
32816 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
32817 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
32818 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
32820 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
32821 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
32822 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
32823 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
32825 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
32826 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
32827 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
32828 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
32829 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
32830 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
32831 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
32834 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
32835 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
32836 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
32837 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
32838 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
32840 o Memory fixes and improvements:
32841 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
32842 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
32843 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
32844 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
32845 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
32846 on a typical directory cache.
32847 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
32848 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
32849 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
32850 and may reduce fragmentation.
32851 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
32852 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
32853 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
32855 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
32856 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
32857 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
32859 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
32860 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
32864 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
32865 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
32866 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
32867 done that for a long time.
32868 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
32869 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
32870 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
32871 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
32874 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
32875 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
32876 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
32877 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
32878 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
32879 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
32881 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
32882 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
32883 output to messages of warning and error severity.
32884 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
32885 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
32886 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
32887 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
32888 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
32889 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
32890 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
32891 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
32892 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
32893 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
32894 directory requests we should expect to see.
32895 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
32897 - Lots of new unit tests.
32898 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
32899 two parallel lists in lockstep.
32902 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
32903 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
32904 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
32907 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
32908 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
32909 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
32910 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
32911 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
32912 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
32913 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
32916 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
32917 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
32918 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
32922 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
32923 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
32924 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
32927 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
32928 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
32929 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
32931 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
32932 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
32934 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
32935 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
32936 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
32937 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
32938 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32939 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
32940 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
32942 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
32943 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
32944 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
32945 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
32946 - Fix compile on Windows.
32949 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
32950 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
32951 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
32952 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
32953 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
32954 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
32955 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
32958 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
32959 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
32962 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
32963 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
32964 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
32965 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
32967 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
32968 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
32969 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
32972 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
32973 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
32974 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
32975 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
32979 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
32980 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
32981 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
32982 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
32984 o Major security fixes:
32985 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
32986 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
32987 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
32988 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
32989 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
32992 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
32993 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32996 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
32997 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
33000 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
33001 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
33004 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
33005 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
33006 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
33009 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
33010 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33013 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
33014 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
33015 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
33016 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
33017 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
33019 o New directory authorities:
33020 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
33021 it has been down for months.
33022 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
33026 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
33027 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
33029 o Minor features (security):
33030 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
33031 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
33032 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
33035 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
33036 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
33037 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
33038 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
33039 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
33040 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
33041 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
33042 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
33043 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33045 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
33046 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
33047 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33048 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
33049 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
33050 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
33051 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33052 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
33053 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
33055 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33056 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
33057 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
33058 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
33059 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
33060 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
33061 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
33062 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
33063 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
33064 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
33065 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33066 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
33067 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
33068 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
33069 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
33070 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
33071 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
33072 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
33073 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
33076 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
33077 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33078 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
33079 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
33082 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
33083 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
33084 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
33085 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
33088 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
33089 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33090 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
33091 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
33092 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
33095 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
33096 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
33097 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
33098 certain censored countries by default again.
33101 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
33102 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33103 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
33104 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
33105 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33106 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
33107 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
33108 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
33110 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
33111 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
33112 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
33113 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
33114 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
33115 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
33116 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
33117 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
33118 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
33119 a directory. Fix from lodger.
33121 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
33122 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
33123 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
33124 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
33125 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
33126 RelayBandwidth* values.
33127 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
33128 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
33129 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
33130 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
33131 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
33132 get_interface_address6().
33133 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
33134 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
33135 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
33137 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
33138 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
33139 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
33140 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33141 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
33142 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
33143 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
33144 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
33145 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
33146 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33149 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
33150 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
33151 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
33154 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
33155 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33156 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
33157 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
33158 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
33161 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
33162 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
33163 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
33164 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
33165 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
33166 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
33167 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
33168 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
33169 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
33172 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
33173 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
33174 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
33175 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
33178 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
33179 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
33180 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
33181 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
33182 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
33183 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
33184 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
33187 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
33188 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
33189 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
33190 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
33191 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
33192 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
33193 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
33195 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
33196 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
33197 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
33198 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
33199 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
33202 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
33203 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
33204 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
33205 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
33206 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
33207 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
33208 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33209 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
33210 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
33211 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
33212 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
33213 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
33214 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
33215 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
33216 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
33217 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33218 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
33219 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33220 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33221 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
33222 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
33223 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
33224 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
33225 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
33226 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
33227 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
33229 o Minor features (performance):
33230 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
33232 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
33233 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
33234 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
33235 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
33236 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
33237 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
33238 non-system include paths.
33239 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
33240 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
33243 o Minor features (other):
33244 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
33246 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
33247 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
33248 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
33251 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
33252 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
33253 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
33254 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
33256 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
33257 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
33258 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
33259 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
33260 Should fix bug 537.
33261 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
33262 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
33263 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33264 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
33265 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33267 o Minor bugfixes (other):
33268 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
33269 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
33270 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
33271 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
33272 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
33273 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
33274 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
33275 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
33276 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
33277 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
33278 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
33279 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
33280 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
33281 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
33282 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33283 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
33284 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
33285 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
33286 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
33287 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
33288 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
33289 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
33290 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
33291 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
33294 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33295 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
33296 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
33300 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
33301 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
33302 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
33303 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
33304 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
33307 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
33308 Tor's x509 certificates.
33311 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
33312 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
33313 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33314 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
33315 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
33316 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33318 o Minor features (security):
33319 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
33320 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
33322 o Minor features (directory authority):
33323 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
33324 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
33325 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
33326 bandwidthburst values.
33328 o Minor features (controller):
33329 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
33330 processes from running us out of memory.
33332 o Minor features (misc):
33333 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
33334 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
33335 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
33336 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
33338 o Deprecated features (controller):
33339 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
33340 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
33341 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
33344 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
33345 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
33347 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
33348 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
33349 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33350 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
33351 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
33352 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33353 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
33354 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
33356 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
33357 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33358 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
33359 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33360 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
33361 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
33362 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
33363 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
33365 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
33366 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
33367 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
33368 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
33369 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33370 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
33371 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33372 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
33373 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33374 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
33375 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
33376 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33378 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33379 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
33381 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
33382 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
33383 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
33384 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
33385 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
33386 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
33389 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
33390 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
33391 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
33392 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
33393 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
33395 o New directory authorities:
33396 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
33400 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
33401 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
33402 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
33403 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
33404 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
33405 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
33406 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
33407 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
33411 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
33412 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
33413 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
33414 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
33415 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
33416 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
33417 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
33418 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
33419 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
33420 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
33423 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
33424 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
33425 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
33426 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
33430 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
33431 the request isn't encrypted.
33432 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
33433 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
33434 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
33435 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
33436 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
33439 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
33440 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
33443 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
33446 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
33447 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
33448 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
33450 o New directory authorities:
33451 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
33454 o Major performance improvements:
33455 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
33456 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
33457 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
33458 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
33459 memory fragmentation.
33462 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
33463 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
33464 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
33465 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
33466 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
33467 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
33468 bodies when they receive them.
33469 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
33470 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
33471 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
33473 o Minor performance improvements:
33474 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
33475 of them were actually distinct.
33476 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
33477 interested in a given message.
33480 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
33481 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
33482 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
33483 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
33484 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
33485 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
33486 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
33487 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
33488 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
33489 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
33490 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
33492 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
33493 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
33494 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
33495 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
33496 this country" and "1 person from this country".
33497 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
33498 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
33499 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
33500 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
33501 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
33503 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
33504 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
33505 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
33507 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
33508 but client versions are not.
33509 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
33510 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
33512 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
33513 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
33514 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
33515 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
33516 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
33518 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
33519 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
33520 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
33523 o Minor features (controller):
33524 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
33525 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
33526 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
33527 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
33529 o Minor features (directory authorities):
33530 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
33531 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
33532 running a test network on a single host.
33533 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
33534 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
33536 o Minor features (bridges):
33537 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
33538 unencrypted connections.
33540 o Minor features (other):
33541 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
33542 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
33543 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
33544 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
33547 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
33548 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
33549 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
33550 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33553 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
33554 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
33555 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
33556 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
33557 on network address.
33560 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
33561 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
33562 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
33563 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
33564 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
33565 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
33566 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
33567 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
33568 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
33569 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
33570 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
33571 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
33574 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
33575 rebuild our server descriptor.
33576 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
33577 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
33578 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
33579 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
33580 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
33581 nonstandard integer types.
33582 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
33583 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
33584 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
33585 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
33586 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
33588 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
33589 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
33590 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
33591 when they receive them.
33592 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
33593 This includes some 64-bit systems.
33594 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
33595 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
33596 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
33597 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
33598 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
33599 router_get_by_hexdigest().
33600 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
33601 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
33605 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
33606 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
33607 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
33610 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
33611 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
33612 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
33613 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
33614 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
33615 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
33616 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
33617 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33620 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
33621 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
33622 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
33623 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
33625 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
33626 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
33629 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
33630 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
33633 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
33635 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
33636 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
33638 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
33639 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
33640 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
33641 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33642 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
33643 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
33644 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
33645 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
33646 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
33647 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
33651 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
33652 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
33653 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
33656 - Make the unit tests build again.
33657 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
33658 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
33659 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
33660 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
33661 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
33662 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33663 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
33664 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
33665 the next one as a duplicate.
33668 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
33669 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
33670 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
33671 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
33674 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
33675 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
33676 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
33679 o New directory authorities:
33680 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
33684 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
33685 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
33686 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
33687 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
33688 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
33689 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
33690 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
33692 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
33693 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
33695 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
33696 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
33697 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
33698 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
33699 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
33700 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
33702 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
33703 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
33704 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
33705 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
33706 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
33707 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33710 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
33711 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
33712 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
33713 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
33714 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
33715 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
33716 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
33717 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
33718 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
33719 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
33720 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
33721 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
33722 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
33723 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
33724 where Tor is blocked.
33725 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
33726 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
33727 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
33728 to a file periodically.
33729 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
33730 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
33731 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
33735 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
33736 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
33737 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
33738 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
33739 in the relevant networkstatus document.
33740 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
33741 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
33742 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
33743 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
33744 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
33745 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
33746 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
33747 by Karsten Loesing.
33748 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
33749 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
33750 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
33751 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
33752 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
33753 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33754 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
33755 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
33756 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
33757 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33758 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
33759 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
33760 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
33761 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33762 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
33763 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
33764 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
33765 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
33766 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
33767 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33768 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33769 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
33770 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33771 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
33772 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
33773 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
33774 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
33775 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33778 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
33779 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
33780 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
33781 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
33782 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
33783 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
33784 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
33785 even if your DirPort isn't on.
33786 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
33787 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
33788 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
33790 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
33791 multiple controller passwords.
33792 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
33793 router based on the router's purpose.
33794 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
33795 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
33796 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
33797 the approved-routers file.
33800 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
33801 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
33802 well as a few minor bugs.
33805 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
33806 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
33807 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
33809 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
33810 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
33811 rebuild our server descriptor.
33813 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
33814 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
33815 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
33816 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
33817 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
33818 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
33819 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
33820 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
33821 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
33822 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
33824 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
33825 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
33826 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
33827 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
33828 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
33829 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
33830 then be flexible about families.
33833 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
33834 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
33835 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
33839 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
33840 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
33841 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
33842 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
33843 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
33846 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
33847 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
33848 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
33849 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
33850 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33853 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
33854 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
33856 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
33857 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
33858 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
33859 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
33860 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
33861 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
33862 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
33864 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
33865 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
33866 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
33867 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
33870 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
33871 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
33874 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
33875 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
33876 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33879 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
33880 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
33881 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
33882 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
33883 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
33884 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
33885 addresses many more minor issues.
33887 o New directory authorities:
33888 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
33891 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
33892 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
33893 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
33894 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
33896 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
33897 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
33898 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
33899 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
33900 and are reaching it.
33901 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
33902 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
33903 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
33904 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
33905 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
33906 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
33909 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
33910 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
33912 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
33913 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
33914 no longer work for clients.
33915 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
33916 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
33918 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
33919 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
33920 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
33921 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
33922 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
33923 enough directory information to build a circuit.
33924 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
33925 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
33926 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
33927 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
33928 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
33929 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
33931 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
33932 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
33933 requests for all of them.
33934 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
33936 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
33937 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
33938 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
33940 o New requirements:
33941 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
33942 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
33946 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
33947 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
33948 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
33949 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
33950 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
33951 networkstatuses that we already have.
33952 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
33953 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
33954 we start knowing some directory caches.
33955 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
33956 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
33957 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
33958 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
33959 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
33960 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
33961 Good in combination with --hash-password.
33962 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
33963 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
33965 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
33966 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
33967 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
33969 o Minor features (bridges):
33970 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
33971 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
33972 back to trying the bridge directly.
33973 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
33974 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
33976 o Minor features (controller):
33977 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
33978 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
33979 report the value as a "minimum skew."
33982 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
33983 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
33987 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
33988 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
33989 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
33990 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
33991 reported by tup and ioerror.
33992 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
33993 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
33995 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
33996 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
33998 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
33999 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
34000 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
34002 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
34003 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34004 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
34005 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34006 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
34007 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34008 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
34010 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
34011 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
34012 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34014 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
34015 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
34016 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
34017 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
34018 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
34021 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
34022 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
34023 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
34024 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
34025 lists for a few hours each day.
34027 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34028 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
34029 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
34030 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
34031 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
34032 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
34033 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
34034 rend_process_relay_cell().
34036 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
34037 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
34038 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
34039 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
34040 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
34041 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
34042 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
34043 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
34045 o Major bugfixes (other):
34046 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
34047 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
34048 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
34049 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
34050 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
34051 circuit cannibalization).
34052 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
34053 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
34054 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
34055 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
34056 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
34057 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
34060 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
34061 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
34063 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
34064 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
34065 absent. Resolves bug 467.
34066 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
34067 a way to trigger this remotely.)
34068 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
34069 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
34070 were reporting the dir port.)
34071 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
34072 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
34073 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
34074 the future. Fixes bug 434.
34075 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
34077 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
34078 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
34079 the onion key from getting rotated.
34080 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
34081 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
34082 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
34083 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
34084 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
34085 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
34086 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
34087 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
34088 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
34091 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
34092 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
34093 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
34094 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
34095 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
34096 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
34098 o Major features (directory system):
34099 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
34100 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
34101 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
34102 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
34103 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
34104 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
34105 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
34106 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
34107 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
34108 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
34109 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
34110 Partially implements proposal 122.
34111 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
34112 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
34115 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
34116 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
34117 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
34118 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
34120 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
34121 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
34122 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
34123 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
34124 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
34125 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34126 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
34127 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
34128 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34130 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
34131 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
34133 - Allow certificates to include an address.
34134 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
34135 and download operations.
34136 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
34137 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
34138 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
34139 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
34140 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
34141 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
34143 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
34144 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
34147 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
34148 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
34149 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
34150 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
34152 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
34153 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
34154 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
34156 o Minor features (performance):
34157 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
34158 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
34159 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
34160 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
34161 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
34162 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
34163 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
34166 o Minor features (compilation):
34167 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
34168 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
34170 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
34171 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
34172 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
34173 stick around indefinitely.
34174 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
34176 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
34177 v3 directory authority.
34178 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
34179 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
34181 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
34182 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
34183 "moria on moria:9031."
34184 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
34185 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
34186 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
34187 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
34188 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
34189 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
34190 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
34191 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
34193 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
34194 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
34195 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
34196 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
34197 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
34198 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
34199 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
34200 downloads than for other types.
34202 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
34203 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
34205 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
34206 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
34207 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34209 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34210 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
34211 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34212 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
34213 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
34214 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
34215 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
34216 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
34218 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
34219 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
34220 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
34221 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
34222 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34223 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
34224 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
34225 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34226 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
34227 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
34228 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
34230 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
34231 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
34234 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34235 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
34236 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
34237 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
34238 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
34239 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
34240 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
34241 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
34242 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
34243 so that they all take the same named flags.
34246 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
34247 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
34248 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
34251 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
34252 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
34253 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
34254 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
34255 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
34256 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
34258 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
34259 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
34260 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
34261 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
34262 annotations along with descriptors.
34263 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
34264 source, and its purpose.
34265 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
34267 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
34268 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
34269 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
34270 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
34273 o Major features (directory authorities):
34274 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
34276 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
34277 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
34278 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
34279 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
34280 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
34281 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
34283 o Major features (v3 directory system):
34284 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
34285 and download the descriptors listed in them.
34286 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
34287 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
34288 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
34290 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34291 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
34292 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
34293 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
34296 o Major bugfixes (performance):
34297 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
34298 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
34299 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
34300 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
34302 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
34303 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
34304 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
34305 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
34306 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
34307 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
34309 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
34310 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
34312 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
34313 certificate is requested.
34314 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
34315 certificate requests.
34317 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
34318 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
34319 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
34320 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
34323 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34324 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
34325 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
34326 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34328 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
34329 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
34331 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
34332 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
34333 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34334 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
34335 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
34336 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
34337 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
34338 downloads more sensible.
34339 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
34340 another when serving certificates.
34342 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
34343 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
34344 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
34345 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
34347 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
34348 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34349 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
34351 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
34352 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
34354 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
34355 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
34356 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
34357 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
34358 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
34360 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
34361 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
34362 WARN-severity events.
34363 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
34364 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
34365 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
34367 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
34368 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
34369 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
34371 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
34372 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
34373 circuit cannibalization).
34375 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34376 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
34377 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
34378 new module, networkstatus.c.
34379 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
34380 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
34381 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
34382 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
34383 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
34384 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
34385 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
34386 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
34387 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
34389 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
34391 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
34392 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
34395 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
34396 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
34397 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
34398 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
34400 o New directory authorities:
34401 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
34402 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
34404 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34405 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
34406 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34408 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
34409 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
34410 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
34411 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
34412 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
34413 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
34414 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
34415 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
34416 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
34417 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
34418 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34420 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
34421 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
34422 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
34423 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
34424 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
34425 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
34426 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
34427 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
34428 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
34430 o Minor features (security):
34431 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
34432 address maps to an internal address space.
34433 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
34434 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
34436 o Minor features (guard nodes):
34437 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
34438 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
34439 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
34440 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
34442 o Minor features (speed):
34443 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
34444 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
34445 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
34446 on big-endian hosts.)
34448 o Minor features (controller):
34449 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
34450 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
34451 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
34452 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
34455 o Removed features:
34456 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
34457 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
34458 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
34459 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
34460 implementation of proposal 104.
34461 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
34462 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
34463 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
34464 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
34465 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
34466 patch from Karsten Loesing.
34467 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
34468 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
34471 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
34472 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
34473 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34474 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
34475 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34476 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
34477 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34478 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
34479 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
34480 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34481 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
34482 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
34483 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
34484 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34485 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
34486 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
34487 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
34488 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34489 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
34490 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
34492 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34493 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
34494 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
34496 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
34497 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
34498 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
34499 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
34502 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
34503 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
34504 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
34505 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
34506 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
34509 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
34510 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
34513 o Major bugfixes (security):
34514 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
34515 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
34516 become more of a headache than it's worth.
34518 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
34519 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
34520 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
34522 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
34523 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
34524 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
34525 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
34526 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
34527 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
34529 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
34530 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
34531 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
34532 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
34533 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
34535 o Minor features (controller):
34536 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
34537 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
34538 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
34539 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
34541 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
34542 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
34543 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
34544 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
34545 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
34546 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
34547 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
34548 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
34550 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
34551 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
34552 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
34553 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
34554 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
34555 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
34556 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
34557 if we ran off the end of the list.
34558 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
34559 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
34560 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
34561 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
34562 every time we change any piece of our config.
34563 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
34564 encourage people using them to stop.
34565 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
34567 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
34568 servers to choose a circuit.
34569 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
34570 unparseable piece of it.
34573 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
34574 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
34575 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
34576 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
34579 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
34580 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
34581 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
34582 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
34583 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
34585 o New directory authorities:
34586 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
34589 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
34590 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
34591 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
34592 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
34594 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
34595 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
34596 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
34598 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
34599 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
34600 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
34601 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
34602 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
34603 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
34605 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
34606 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
34607 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34610 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
34611 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
34612 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
34613 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
34617 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
34618 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
34619 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
34620 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
34622 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
34623 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
34625 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
34626 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
34627 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
34628 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
34629 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
34630 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
34631 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34632 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
34633 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34634 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
34637 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
34638 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
34639 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
34640 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
34641 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
34642 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
34644 o Removed features:
34645 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
34646 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
34647 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
34648 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
34651 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
34652 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
34653 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
34654 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
34655 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
34658 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
34659 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
34660 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
34661 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
34662 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
34663 reported by lodger.
34665 o Minor features (directory servers):
34666 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
34667 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
34669 o Minor features (directory voting):
34670 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
34673 o Minor features (security):
34674 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
34675 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
34676 encourage people using them to stop.
34678 o Minor features (controller):
34679 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
34680 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
34681 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
34682 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
34683 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
34684 cookie authentication file, and config option
34685 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
34687 o Minor features (unit testing):
34688 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
34689 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
34690 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
34691 logging for the unit tests.
34693 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
34694 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
34695 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
34696 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
34697 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
34698 every time we change any piece of our config.
34699 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
34700 the future. Fixes bug 434.
34701 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
34703 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
34704 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
34705 the onion key from getting rotated.
34706 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
34707 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
34708 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
34711 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
34712 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
34713 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
34715 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
34716 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
34717 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
34718 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
34721 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
34722 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
34723 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
34724 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
34725 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
34726 TorK, etc. Or worse.
34728 o Major security fixes:
34729 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
34730 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
34733 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
34734 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
34735 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
34736 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
34738 o Major security fixes:
34739 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
34740 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
34742 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
34743 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
34746 o Minor features (performance):
34747 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
34748 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
34749 performance-intensive.
34750 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
34751 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
34752 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
34753 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
34754 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
34755 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
34759 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
34760 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
34761 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
34762 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
34766 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
34767 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
34768 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
34769 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
34770 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
34772 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
34773 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
34774 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
34775 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
34777 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
34778 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
34779 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
34780 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
34781 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
34783 o Major features (experimental):
34784 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
34785 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
34786 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
34787 handling before it's ready for use.
34790 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
34791 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
34792 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
34793 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
34794 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
34795 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
34797 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
34798 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
34799 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
34800 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
34801 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
34803 o Major bugfixes (directory):
34804 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
34805 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
34807 o Minor features (controller):
34808 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
34809 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
34810 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
34811 from Robert Hogan.)
34812 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
34813 from Robert Hogan.)
34814 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
34815 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
34817 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
34818 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
34819 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
34820 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
34821 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
34822 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
34823 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
34826 o Minor features (misc):
34827 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
34829 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
34830 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
34831 the authority identity key.
34832 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
34834 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
34835 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
34836 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
34839 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
34840 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
34841 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
34842 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
34843 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
34844 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
34845 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
34846 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
34848 o Performance improvements:
34849 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
34851 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
34852 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
34855 o Deprecated and removed features:
34856 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
34857 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
34858 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
34859 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
34861 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
34862 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
34863 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
34864 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
34865 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
34866 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
34867 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
34868 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
34869 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
34872 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
34873 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
34874 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
34875 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
34876 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
34878 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
34879 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
34882 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34883 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
34884 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
34885 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
34886 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
34887 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
34888 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
34889 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
34890 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
34893 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
34894 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
34895 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
34896 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
34898 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
34899 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
34901 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34902 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
34903 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
34904 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
34905 routerlist while inserting a new router.
34906 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
34907 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
34909 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
34910 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
34911 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
34913 o Major bugfixes (security):
34914 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
34916 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
34917 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
34918 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
34919 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
34920 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
34921 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
34922 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
34923 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
34924 guard list unless we need to.
34926 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
34927 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
34928 don't get overused as guards.
34930 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
34931 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
34932 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
34933 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
34934 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
34936 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
34937 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
34938 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
34941 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
34942 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
34943 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
34944 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
34945 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
34946 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
34947 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
34948 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
34951 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
34952 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
34953 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
34954 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
34956 o Minor features (directory):
34957 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
34958 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
34959 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
34960 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
34962 o Minor build issues:
34963 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
34964 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
34965 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
34966 in the tarball, not as "x".
34969 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
34970 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
34971 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
34972 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
34973 forward on a lot of fronts.
34975 o Major features, server usability:
34976 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
34977 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
34978 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
34979 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
34981 o Major features, client usability:
34982 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
34983 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
34984 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
34985 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
34986 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
34987 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
34988 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
34989 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
34991 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
34992 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
34993 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
34994 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
34995 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
34996 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
34998 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
34999 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
35000 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
35002 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
35003 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
35004 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
35005 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
35006 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
35008 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
35009 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
35010 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
35011 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
35013 o Major features, other:
35014 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
35015 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
35016 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
35017 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
35018 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
35021 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
35022 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
35023 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
35026 o Minor fixes (resource management):
35027 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
35028 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
35029 our allocated connection limit.
35030 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
35031 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
35032 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
35033 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
35034 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
35036 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
35037 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
35038 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
35040 o Minor features (build):
35041 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
35042 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
35043 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
35044 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
35046 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
35047 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
35048 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
35049 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
35050 Use this version consistently in log messages.
35052 o Minor features (logging):
35053 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
35054 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
35055 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
35056 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
35057 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
35060 o Minor features (directory system):
35061 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
35062 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
35063 not to serve V2 directory information.
35064 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
35065 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
35066 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
35068 o Minor features (controller):
35069 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
35070 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
35072 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
35073 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
35074 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
35075 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
35076 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
35077 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
35079 o Minor features (hidden services):
35080 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
35081 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
35082 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
35083 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
35085 o Minor features (other):
35087 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
35088 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
35089 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
35090 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
35091 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
35092 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
35093 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
35094 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
35095 longer a completely silly thing to do.
35096 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
35097 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
35098 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
35099 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
35101 o Removed features:
35102 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
35103 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
35104 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
35105 back an error and close the connection.
35106 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
35107 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
35110 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
35111 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
35112 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
35113 makes the log messages nicer.
35114 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
35115 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
35116 partial results on small file reads.
35118 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35119 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
35120 more often than they are allowed to appear.
35121 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
35122 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
35124 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
35125 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
35126 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
35127 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
35129 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35130 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
35131 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
35132 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
35133 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
35134 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
35135 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
35136 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
35137 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
35138 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
35139 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
35141 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
35142 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
35143 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
35145 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
35146 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
35147 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
35148 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
35150 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35151 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
35152 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
35154 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
35155 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
35158 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35159 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
35160 implicit in other procedure arguments.
35161 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
35162 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
35163 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
35164 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
35165 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
35166 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
35167 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
35168 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
35169 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
35172 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
35173 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
35174 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
35175 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
35177 o Directory authority changes:
35178 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
35179 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
35180 or use hidden services.
35182 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35183 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
35184 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
35185 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
35186 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
35187 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
35188 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
35189 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
35190 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
35193 o Major bugfixes (security):
35194 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
35195 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
35196 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
35198 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
35199 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
35200 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
35201 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
35202 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
35203 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
35204 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
35205 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
35206 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
35207 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
35210 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
35211 purpose=controller.
35212 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
35213 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
35215 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
35216 having a hard time downloading.
35217 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
35218 partial results on small file reads.
35219 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
35220 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
35221 the gaps in the store get very large.
35224 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
35225 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
35227 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
35228 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
35231 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
35232 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
35233 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
35234 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
35235 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
35236 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
35238 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
35239 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
35240 free speech on the Internet.
35243 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
35244 get one we don't recognize.
35245 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
35246 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
35249 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
35251 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
35252 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
35253 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
35254 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
35257 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
35258 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
35261 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
35262 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
35263 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
35264 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
35265 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
35266 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
35267 ask for GUARDS too.
35270 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
35271 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
35272 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
35273 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
35274 on Win98 and friends again.
35276 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35277 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
35278 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
35281 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
35282 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
35283 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
35284 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
35285 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
35286 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
35287 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
35288 and maybe also bug 397.)
35290 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35291 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
35292 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
35294 o Minor bugfixes (server):
35295 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
35298 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
35299 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
35300 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
35301 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
35302 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
35304 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
35305 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
35306 load on authorities.
35308 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35309 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
35310 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
35311 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
35313 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
35315 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
35316 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
35317 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
35318 the last of bug 326.)
35319 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
35320 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
35324 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
35325 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35326 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
35327 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
35328 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
35329 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
35330 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
35332 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
35333 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
35335 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
35336 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
35337 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
35339 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
35340 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
35341 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
35343 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35344 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
35345 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
35346 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
35348 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
35349 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
35351 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
35352 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
35353 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
35356 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35357 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
35358 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
35359 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
35360 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
35361 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
35362 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
35363 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
35364 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
35365 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
35366 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
35367 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
35368 other than file-not-found.
35369 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
35370 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
35371 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
35372 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
35373 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
35374 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
35375 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
35376 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
35377 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
35378 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
35379 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
35380 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
35381 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
35382 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
35383 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
35385 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
35387 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
35388 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
35390 o Minor features (controller):
35391 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
35392 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
35393 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
35395 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
35396 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35397 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
35398 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
35399 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
35400 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
35401 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
35402 connected or resolved cell.
35404 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35405 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
35406 some profiles, but not others.)
35407 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
35408 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
35409 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
35412 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
35414 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
35415 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
35416 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
35417 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
35418 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
35419 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
35420 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
35421 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
35422 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
35423 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
35424 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
35425 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
35426 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
35427 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
35428 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
35430 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
35433 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
35434 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
35435 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
35436 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
35437 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
35438 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
35439 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
35441 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
35442 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
35443 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
35444 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
35445 buckets go absurdly negative.
35446 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
35447 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
35450 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
35451 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
35452 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
35453 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
35454 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
35455 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
35456 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
35457 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
35460 o Major bugfixes (other):
35461 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
35462 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
35463 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
35464 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
35466 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
35468 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
35469 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
35471 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
35472 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
35473 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
35474 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
35475 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
35476 to wait for 0.2.0.)
35478 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
35479 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
35480 possible memory-stomping bugs.
35481 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
35482 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
35484 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
35485 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
35486 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
35487 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
35488 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
35489 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
35491 o Minor bugfixes (other):
35492 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
35493 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
35494 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
35496 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
35497 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
35498 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
35499 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
35500 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
35501 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
35502 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
35503 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
35504 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
35505 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
35506 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
35507 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
35508 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
35510 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
35511 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
35512 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
35513 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
35514 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
35515 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
35516 to the resulting address.
35519 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
35520 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
35521 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
35522 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
35525 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
35526 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
35528 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
35529 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
35530 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
35531 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
35532 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
35533 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
35534 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
35535 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
35536 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
35537 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
35538 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
35539 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
35540 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
35541 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
35542 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
35543 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
35544 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
35547 o Minor features (controller):
35548 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
35549 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
35550 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
35551 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
35552 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
35553 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
35554 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
35558 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
35560 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
35561 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
35562 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
35563 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
35564 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
35565 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
35568 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
35569 weren't planning to resolve.
35570 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
35571 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
35572 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
35573 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
35574 the controller from learning about current events.
35576 o Minor features (more controller status events):
35577 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
35578 learn when our address changes.
35579 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
35580 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
35581 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
35582 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
35584 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
35585 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
35586 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
35587 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
35588 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
35589 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
35590 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
35591 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
35592 are accepted by a directory.
35593 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
35594 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
35595 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
35596 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
35597 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
35599 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
35600 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
35601 about changes to DNS server status.
35603 o Minor features (directory):
35604 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
35605 too much load to the exit nodes.
35608 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
35610 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
35611 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
35612 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
35613 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
35614 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
35616 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
35617 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
35618 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
35620 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
35621 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
35622 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
35623 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
35624 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
35625 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
35626 config options if you like.
35628 o Minor features (config and docs):
35629 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
35630 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
35631 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
35632 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
35633 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
35635 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
35636 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
35637 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
35638 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
35639 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
35641 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
35642 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
35643 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
35644 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
35645 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
35646 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
35647 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
35648 documentation: "make check-docs".
35649 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
35650 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
35652 o Minor features (DNS):
35653 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
35654 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
35655 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
35656 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
35657 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
35658 our tests for DNS hijacking.
35660 o Minor features (directory):
35661 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
35662 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
35663 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
35664 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
35665 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
35666 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
35667 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
35668 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
35669 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
35670 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
35671 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
35672 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
35673 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
35674 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
35675 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
35676 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
35677 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
35678 for the thing we're trying to download.
35679 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
35680 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
35681 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
35683 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
35684 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
35685 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
35688 o Minor features (controller):
35689 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
35690 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
35692 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
35693 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
35694 entry guard status as it changes.
35696 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
35697 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
35698 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
35699 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
35700 to set log options.
35701 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
35702 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
35703 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
35704 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
35707 o Major bugfixes (security):
35708 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
35709 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
35710 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
35711 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
35713 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
35714 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
35715 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
35716 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
35717 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
35719 o Major bugfixes (other):
35720 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
35721 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
35722 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
35723 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
35725 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
35726 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
35727 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
35728 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
35729 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
35730 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
35734 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
35735 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
35736 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
35737 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
35738 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
35740 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
35741 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
35743 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
35744 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
35745 family lists conveniently.
35746 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
35747 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
35748 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
35750 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
35751 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
35753 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
35754 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
35755 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
35756 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
35757 if their identity keys are as expected.
35758 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
35759 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
35760 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
35762 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35763 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
35764 reported by Mike Perry.
35765 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
35766 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
35767 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
35768 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
35771 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
35772 o Security bugfixes:
35773 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
35774 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
35775 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
35776 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
35780 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
35781 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
35782 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
35785 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
35787 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
35788 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
35789 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
35792 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
35793 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
35794 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
35795 watching for STREAM events.
35796 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
35797 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
35798 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
35799 operations, for profiling.
35802 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
35803 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
35804 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
35805 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
35806 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
35807 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
35809 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
35813 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
35814 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
35815 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
35816 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
35817 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
35819 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
35820 correctly in the Windows installer.
35821 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
35822 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
35823 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
35824 MIPSpro C compiler.
35825 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
35826 when we're running as a client.
35829 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
35831 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
35832 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
35833 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
35834 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
35835 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
35836 its circuits on demand.
35837 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
35838 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
35839 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
35840 connections more stable on average.
35841 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
35842 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
35843 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
35845 o Security bugfixes:
35846 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
35847 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
35850 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
35852 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
35853 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
35854 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
35855 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
35856 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
35857 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
35858 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
35859 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
35862 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
35864 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
35865 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
35866 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
35867 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
35868 routers for even longer.
35869 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
35870 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
35871 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
35872 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
35873 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
35874 caching HTTP proxies.
35875 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
35878 o Minor features, controller:
35879 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
35880 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
35881 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
35882 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
35884 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
35885 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
35886 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
35887 working much like those for circuit events.
35888 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
35889 about the current status of a router.
35890 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
35891 a router's status has changed.
35892 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
35893 can tell which events and features are supported.
35894 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
35895 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
35897 o Security bugfixes:
35898 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
35899 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
35902 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
35903 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
35904 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
35905 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
35906 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
35907 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
35908 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
35909 long nicknames where appropriate.
35910 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
35911 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
35912 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
35913 chews through many circuits before giving up.
35914 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
35915 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
35916 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
35917 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
35918 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
35919 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
35921 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
35922 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
35923 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
35925 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
35926 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
35927 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
35928 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
35929 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
35930 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
35931 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
35932 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
35933 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
35934 (reported by fookoowa).
35935 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
35936 and reported by some Centos users.
35937 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
35938 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
35939 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
35940 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
35941 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
35942 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
35943 before we check for libevent.
35946 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
35948 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
35949 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
35950 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
35951 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
35952 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
35953 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
35954 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
35955 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
35956 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
35957 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
35958 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
35959 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
35960 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
35961 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
35962 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
35963 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
35964 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
35965 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
35966 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
35967 lets you turn it off.
35968 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
35969 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
35970 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
35971 us into the directory more quickly.
35973 o New/improved config options:
35974 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
35975 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
35976 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
35977 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
35978 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
35979 all the machines on the same subnet.
35980 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
35981 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
35982 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
35983 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
35984 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
35985 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
35986 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
35987 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
35988 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
35989 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
35991 o Minor features, controller:
35992 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
35993 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
35994 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
35995 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
35996 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
35997 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
35998 for more information.
35999 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
36000 best guess to the user.
36001 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
36002 descriptor has changed.
36003 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
36005 o Minor features, other:
36006 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
36007 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
36008 useful to the network.
36009 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
36010 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
36011 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
36012 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
36013 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
36014 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
36015 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
36016 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
36017 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
36018 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
36019 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
36020 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
36021 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
36022 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
36023 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
36025 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
36026 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
36027 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
36028 could return an unnamed server instead.
36029 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
36030 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
36031 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
36032 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
36033 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
36034 a more attractive target for compromise.)
36035 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
36036 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
36037 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
36039 o Major bugfixes, other:
36040 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
36041 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
36042 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
36043 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
36044 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
36045 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
36046 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
36047 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
36048 its circuits on demand.
36049 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
36050 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
36051 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
36052 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
36054 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
36055 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
36056 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
36057 we don't recognize.
36058 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
36060 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
36061 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
36062 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
36063 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
36064 "extendcircuit" request.
36065 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
36066 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
36067 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
36069 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
36070 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
36071 instead of "X resolved to X".
36072 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
36073 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
36074 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
36075 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
36076 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
36077 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
36078 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
36079 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
36080 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
36082 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
36083 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
36084 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
36085 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
36086 result more than once.
36087 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
36088 non-versioning dirservers.
36089 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
36090 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
36092 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
36093 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
36094 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
36095 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
36096 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
36097 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
36098 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
36099 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
36100 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
36102 o Packaging, features:
36103 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
36104 now universal binaries.
36105 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
36106 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
36107 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
36109 o Packaging, bugfixes:
36110 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
36111 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
36112 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
36113 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
36115 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
36116 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
36117 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
36120 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
36121 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
36122 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
36126 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
36128 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
36129 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
36130 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
36131 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
36132 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
36133 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
36134 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
36135 it can't resolve its hostname.
36138 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
36139 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
36140 "extendcircuit" request.
36141 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
36142 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
36143 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
36144 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
36146 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
36147 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
36148 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
36150 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
36151 methods: these are known to be buggy.
36152 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
36153 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
36154 we don't recognize.
36157 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
36159 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
36160 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
36161 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
36162 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
36163 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
36164 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
36165 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
36166 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
36167 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
36168 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
36169 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
36170 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
36171 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
36172 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
36173 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
36174 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
36175 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
36176 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
36177 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
36178 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
36179 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
36180 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
36181 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
36182 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
36185 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
36186 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
36187 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
36188 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
36189 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
36190 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
36191 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
36192 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
36193 recommendation system saner.)
36194 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
36196 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
36197 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
36198 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
36199 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
36200 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
36201 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
36202 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
36203 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
36204 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
36205 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
36206 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
36207 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
36208 your ORPort is set.
36209 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
36210 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
36211 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
36212 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
36213 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
36214 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
36215 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
36216 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
36217 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
36218 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
36219 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
36220 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
36222 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
36223 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
36224 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
36225 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
36226 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
36227 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
36230 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
36231 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
36232 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
36233 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
36234 our DirPort now, etc.
36235 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
36236 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
36237 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
36238 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
36239 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
36240 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
36241 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
36243 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
36244 whether the config options are bad or good.
36245 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
36246 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
36247 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
36248 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
36249 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
36250 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
36251 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
36252 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
36255 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
36256 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
36257 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
36258 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
36259 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
36260 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
36261 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
36262 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
36263 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
36264 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
36265 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
36266 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
36267 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
36268 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
36269 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
36270 of it), is not therefore "up".
36271 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
36272 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
36273 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
36274 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
36275 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
36276 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
36279 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
36281 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
36282 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
36283 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
36284 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
36285 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
36286 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
36287 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
36288 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
36289 test reachability, so you won't publish.
36292 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
36293 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
36294 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
36295 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
36296 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
36298 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
36299 own server descriptor yet.
36302 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
36304 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
36305 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
36306 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
36307 make sure to test via one of these.
36308 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
36309 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
36310 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
36311 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
36312 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
36314 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
36315 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
36316 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
36319 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
36320 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
36321 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
36322 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
36323 directory authority.
36324 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
36325 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
36326 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
36327 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
36330 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
36331 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
36332 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
36334 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
36335 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
36336 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
36337 current guards when picking a new guard.
36338 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
36339 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
36340 when we had more than one pending.
36341 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
36342 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
36343 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
36344 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
36345 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
36346 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
36347 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
36348 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
36349 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
36350 debug the reachability problems better.
36352 o Log / documentation fixes:
36353 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
36354 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
36355 about protocol violations by others.
36356 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
36357 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
36358 about what happened to our old torrc.
36361 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
36363 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
36365 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
36366 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
36367 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
36368 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
36371 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
36373 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
36374 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
36375 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
36376 old ORPort and receive connections.
36377 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
36379 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
36380 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
36381 and network-statuses.
36382 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
36383 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
36384 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
36385 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
36387 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
36390 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
36391 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
36392 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
36395 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
36397 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
36398 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
36399 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
36400 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
36401 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
36404 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
36405 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
36407 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
36408 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
36409 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
36410 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
36411 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
36412 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
36413 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
36414 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
36415 rather than not sending anything back at all.
36416 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
36417 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
36418 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
36419 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
36420 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
36421 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
36422 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
36423 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
36424 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
36425 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
36426 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
36427 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
36428 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
36429 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
36430 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
36431 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
36432 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
36433 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
36434 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
36435 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
36436 default ulimit -n is 1024.
36439 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
36440 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
36441 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
36442 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
36445 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
36447 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
36448 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
36449 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
36450 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
36451 entry guards running these flawed versions.
36452 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
36453 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
36454 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
36455 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
36456 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
36459 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
36460 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
36462 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
36463 and it is confusing some users.
36464 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
36465 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
36466 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
36467 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
36468 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
36471 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
36473 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
36474 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
36475 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
36476 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
36477 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
36478 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
36479 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
36480 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
36481 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
36482 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
36483 dirport is set for now.
36485 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
36486 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
36487 unattached before we fail it?
36488 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
36489 at least this many seconds ago.
36490 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
36491 at least this many seconds ago.
36494 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
36495 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
36496 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
36497 or resolve-wait stream.
36498 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
36499 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
36500 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
36501 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
36502 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
36503 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
36504 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
36505 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
36507 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
36508 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
36509 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
36510 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
36511 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
36512 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
36513 given as hex digests.
36514 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
36515 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
36516 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
36517 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
36518 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
36519 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
36520 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
36521 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
36524 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36525 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
36526 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
36527 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
36528 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
36529 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
36530 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
36531 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
36532 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
36533 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
36534 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
36537 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
36538 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
36539 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
36540 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
36541 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
36542 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
36543 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
36546 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
36547 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
36548 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
36549 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
36550 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
36551 misreading their logs.
36552 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
36553 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
36554 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
36555 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
36556 valid router descriptors.
36557 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
36558 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
36559 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
36560 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
36561 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
36562 silently resetting it to its default.
36563 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
36565 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
36568 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
36569 use clean circuits.
36570 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
36571 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
36572 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
36573 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
36574 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
36576 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
36577 because older Tors do not understand it.
36578 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
36582 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
36583 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
36584 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
36585 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
36586 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
36587 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
36588 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
36589 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
36590 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
36591 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
36592 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
36594 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
36595 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
36596 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
36597 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
36599 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
36600 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
36603 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
36604 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
36605 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
36606 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
36607 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
36608 without getting overloaded.
36609 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
36611 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
36612 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
36613 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
36614 be forward-compatible.
36615 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
36616 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
36617 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
36618 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
36620 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
36621 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
36622 and OR conns to port 443.
36623 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
36624 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
36626 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
36627 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
36628 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
36629 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
36630 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
36631 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
36632 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
36635 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
36636 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36637 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
36638 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
36640 o Other important bugfixes:
36641 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
36642 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
36643 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
36644 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
36646 o Backported features:
36647 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
36648 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
36649 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
36650 without getting overloaded.
36651 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
36652 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
36653 503's whenever they feel busy.
36654 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
36655 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
36656 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
36657 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
36658 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
36661 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
36662 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
36663 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
36664 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
36665 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
36666 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
36667 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
36668 know if the crashes continue.
36669 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
36670 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
36671 seg faults in at least some cases.)
36672 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
36673 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
36674 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
36677 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
36678 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
36679 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
36680 try to be a bit more fair.
36681 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
36682 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
36683 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
36684 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
36685 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
36686 bug that let it go negative.
36687 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
36688 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
36689 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
36690 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
36691 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
36692 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
36693 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
36694 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
36695 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
36696 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
36697 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
36700 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
36702 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
36703 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
36704 service descriptors.
36707 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
36708 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
36709 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
36710 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
36712 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
36713 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
36714 versions *are* still recommended.
36715 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
36716 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
36717 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
36718 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
36719 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
36720 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
36721 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
36722 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
36724 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
36725 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
36726 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
36727 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
36728 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
36729 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
36730 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
36731 on it. Not used by clients yet.
36732 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
36733 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
36734 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
36735 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
36736 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
36737 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
36738 established a circuit.
36739 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
36740 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
36741 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
36742 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
36745 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
36746 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
36747 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
36748 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
36749 quickly enough. Oops.
36750 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
36752 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36753 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
36756 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
36757 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
36758 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
36759 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
36760 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
36761 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
36762 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
36763 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
36764 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
36765 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
36766 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
36767 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
36768 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
36769 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
36770 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
36771 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
36772 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
36775 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
36776 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
36777 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
36778 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
36779 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
36780 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
36781 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
36782 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
36783 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
36784 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
36785 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
36786 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
36787 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
36788 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
36789 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
36790 connections more reliable.
36793 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
36794 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
36795 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
36796 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
36797 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
36798 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
36799 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
36800 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
36801 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
36802 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
36803 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
36804 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
36805 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
36806 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
36810 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
36811 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
36812 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
36813 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
36814 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
36815 need to be uint64_t's.
36816 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
36817 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
36818 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
36820 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
36822 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
36823 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
36824 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
36825 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
36826 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
36827 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
36828 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
36830 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
36831 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
36832 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
36833 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
36834 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
36835 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
36836 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
36837 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
36838 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
36839 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
36840 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
36841 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
36842 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
36845 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
36846 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
36847 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
36848 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
36849 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
36850 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
36851 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
36853 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
36854 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
36855 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
36856 can answer v2 directory requests too.
36857 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
36858 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
36859 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
36860 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
36862 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
36863 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
36864 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
36865 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
36866 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
36867 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
36868 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
36869 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
36870 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
36871 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
36872 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
36873 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
36874 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
36875 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
36876 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
36878 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
36879 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
36882 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
36883 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36884 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
36885 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
36886 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
36887 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
36888 too -- so detect and avoid this.
36889 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
36891 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
36892 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
36893 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
36894 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
36895 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
36896 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
36897 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
36898 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
36899 rendezvous circuits.
36900 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
36902 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36903 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
36904 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
36905 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
36906 advertising it because of hibernation.
36907 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
36908 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
36909 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
36910 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
36911 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
36912 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
36913 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
36914 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
36915 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
36916 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
36917 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
36918 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
36919 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
36920 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
36923 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
36924 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36925 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
36926 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
36927 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
36928 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
36929 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
36930 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
36931 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
36932 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
36933 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
36934 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
36935 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
36936 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
36937 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
36938 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
36939 connections once a week.
36940 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
36941 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
36942 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
36943 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
36944 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
36945 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
36947 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
36948 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
36949 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
36951 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36952 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
36953 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
36954 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
36955 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
36956 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
36957 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
36958 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
36959 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
36960 firewall options forbid.
36961 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
36962 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
36963 can only proxy to certain destinations.
36964 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
36965 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
36966 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
36967 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
36968 aids some statistical attacks.
36969 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
36970 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
36971 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
36972 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
36974 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
36975 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
36976 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
36977 server descriptor sometimes.
36978 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
36979 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
36980 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
36981 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
36982 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
36983 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
36984 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
36985 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
36987 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
36988 case the controller wants to change that too.
36989 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
36990 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
36991 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
36992 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
36994 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
36995 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
36996 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
36998 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
36999 descriptors that they know they will reject.
37001 o Features and updates:
37002 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
37003 significantly faster.
37004 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
37005 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
37006 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
37007 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
37008 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
37009 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
37010 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
37011 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
37012 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
37013 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
37014 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
37015 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
37016 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
37017 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
37018 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
37019 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
37020 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
37021 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
37022 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
37023 as authoritative dirserver.
37024 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
37025 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
37026 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
37029 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
37030 o Usability improvements:
37031 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
37032 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
37034 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
37035 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
37036 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
37038 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
37039 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
37040 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
37041 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
37042 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
37043 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
37044 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
37045 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
37046 memory leaks better.
37047 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
37048 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
37049 their operators to pay close attention.
37050 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
37051 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
37053 o Performance improvements:
37054 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
37055 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
37056 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
37057 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
37058 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
37059 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
37060 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
37061 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
37062 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
37063 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
37064 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
37065 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
37066 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
37067 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
37068 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
37069 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
37070 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
37072 o Security improvements:
37073 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
37074 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
37075 fingerprint of server.
37076 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
37077 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
37078 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
37080 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37081 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
37082 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
37083 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
37084 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
37085 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
37086 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
37087 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
37088 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
37089 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
37090 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
37091 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
37092 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
37093 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
37094 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
37095 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
37096 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
37097 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
37098 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
37099 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
37100 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
37102 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
37103 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
37104 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
37106 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
37107 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
37109 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
37110 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
37111 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
37112 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
37113 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
37114 of the controller protocol.
37115 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
37116 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
37117 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
37120 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
37121 o New features (major):
37122 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
37123 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
37124 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
37125 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
37126 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
37127 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
37128 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
37129 we're using a default DirPort.
37130 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
37132 o New features (minor):
37133 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
37134 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
37135 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
37136 mirrors still cache and serve it).
37137 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
37138 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
37139 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
37140 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
37141 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
37142 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
37143 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
37144 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
37145 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
37146 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
37147 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
37148 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
37149 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
37150 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
37151 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
37153 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
37154 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
37155 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
37156 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
37157 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
37158 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
37159 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
37160 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
37162 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
37163 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
37164 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
37165 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
37166 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
37167 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
37168 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
37169 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
37170 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
37171 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
37173 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
37174 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
37175 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
37176 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
37177 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
37179 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
37180 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
37181 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
37183 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
37184 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
37186 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
37187 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
37188 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
37189 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
37190 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
37191 don't warn twice about the same name.
37192 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
37193 if we've not heard of the server.
37194 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
37195 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
37198 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
37199 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37200 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
37201 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
37202 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
37203 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
37204 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
37205 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
37206 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
37207 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
37208 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
37209 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
37210 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
37211 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
37212 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
37215 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
37216 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
37217 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
37218 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
37219 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
37221 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
37222 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
37223 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
37224 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
37225 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
37226 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
37230 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
37231 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
37232 nickname) is reachable by you.
37233 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
37236 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
37237 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
37238 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
37239 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
37240 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
37241 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
37242 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
37243 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
37244 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
37245 we fail to connect).
37246 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
37247 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
37248 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
37249 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
37251 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
37252 it was self-testing that told us so.
37255 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
37256 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
37257 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
37258 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
37259 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
37260 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
37261 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
37262 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
37263 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
37264 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
37265 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
37266 exit policy using him for any exits.
37267 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
37270 o New controller features/fixes:
37271 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
37272 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
37273 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
37274 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
37275 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
37276 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
37277 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
37278 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
37279 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
37281 o Start on the new directory design:
37282 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
37283 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
37285 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
37286 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
37287 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
37288 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
37290 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
37291 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
37292 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
37293 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
37294 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
37295 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
37296 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
37297 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
37300 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
37301 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
37302 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
37303 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
37304 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
37305 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
37306 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
37307 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
37308 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
37309 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
37311 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
37312 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
37313 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
37314 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
37315 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
37316 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
37317 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
37318 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
37319 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
37321 o Config option changes:
37322 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
37323 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
37324 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
37325 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
37326 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
37327 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
37329 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
37330 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
37331 people have started using them for spam too.
37332 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
37333 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
37334 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
37335 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
37336 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
37337 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
37338 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
37339 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
37340 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
37341 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
37342 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
37343 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
37344 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
37345 services faster on the service end.
37346 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
37347 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
37348 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
37349 it a fair shake next time we try.
37350 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
37351 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
37352 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
37353 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
37354 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
37355 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
37356 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
37357 able to discover them.
37358 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
37359 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
37360 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
37361 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
37362 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
37363 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
37364 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
37365 testing for reachability.
37366 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
37367 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
37369 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
37371 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
37372 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
37375 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
37376 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
37378 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37379 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
37380 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
37381 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
37384 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
37385 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37386 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
37388 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
37389 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
37392 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
37393 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
37396 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
37397 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
37398 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
37399 options, getinfo keys.
37402 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
37403 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37404 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
37405 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
37406 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
37407 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
37408 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
37410 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
37411 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
37415 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
37416 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
37417 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
37419 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
37421 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
37422 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
37423 circuit events and we go offline.
37424 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
37425 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
37426 you don't have enough intro points already.
37428 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
37429 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
37430 many bytes we've used in this time period.
37431 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
37432 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
37433 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
37434 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
37435 enabled by default yet.
37437 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
37438 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
37439 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
37440 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
37441 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
37444 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
37445 o New directory servers:
37446 - tor26 has changed IP address.
37448 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37449 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
37450 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
37451 pthreads libraries.
37452 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
37453 claims its dirport is 0.
37454 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
37455 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
37459 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
37460 o New directory servers:
37461 - tor26 has changed IP address.
37463 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
37464 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
37466 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
37467 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
37468 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
37469 ports that have changed.
37470 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
37472 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
37473 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
37474 Windows-style errno back.
37475 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
37477 want to make it an NT service.
37478 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
37479 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
37480 name, give the full name in our response.
37481 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
37482 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
37483 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
37484 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
37485 pthreads libraries.
37487 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37488 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
37492 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
37493 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
37494 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
37495 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
37496 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
37499 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
37500 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37501 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
37502 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
37503 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
37504 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
37505 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
37506 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
37509 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
37511 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
37512 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
37513 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
37514 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
37515 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
37516 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
37518 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
37519 temporarily unreachable.
37520 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
37524 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
37525 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
37526 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
37527 our protocol works.
37528 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
37532 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
37533 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
37534 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
37535 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
37536 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
37540 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
37541 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
37542 libevent before 1.1a.
37545 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
37547 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
37548 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
37549 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
37550 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
37551 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
37553 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
37554 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
37555 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
37556 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
37557 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
37558 of CPU time plus memory.
37559 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
37560 normal web requests.
37561 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
37562 tor_lookup_hostname().
37563 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
37564 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
37565 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
37566 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
37567 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
37568 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
37570 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
37571 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
37572 HttpProxyAuthenticator
37573 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
37574 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
37575 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
37577 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
37578 the user asks you to.
37579 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
37580 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
37581 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
37582 their descriptors are being rejected.
37583 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
37587 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
37589 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
37590 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
37591 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
37593 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
37595 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
37597 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
37598 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
37599 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
37600 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
37601 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
37602 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
37603 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
37604 keys) from the exit server's process.
37605 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
37606 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
37607 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
37608 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
37609 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
37610 point at your Tor server.
37611 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
37612 you're not sending a socks reply back.
37615 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
37616 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
37617 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
37618 to make it easier to write controllers.
37621 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
37623 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
37624 installing on Tiger.
37625 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
37626 complain during installation.
37627 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
37628 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
37629 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
37630 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
37631 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
37632 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
37634 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
37635 something more reasonable when first installing.
37636 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
37639 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
37641 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
37642 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
37644 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
37645 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
37646 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
37647 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
37648 when using the default exit policy.
37649 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
37650 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
37651 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
37652 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
37653 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
37654 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
37655 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
37656 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
37657 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
37658 we fetched a new directory.
37659 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
37660 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
37663 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
37664 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
37665 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
37666 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
37667 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
37668 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
37669 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
37670 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
37672 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
37673 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
37674 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
37675 save memory on systems that need to fork.
37676 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
37677 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
37678 is valid without actually launching Tor.
37679 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
37680 rather than just rejecting it.
37683 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
37685 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
37686 we didn't like its cert.
37688 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
37689 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
37690 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
37691 on patch from Adam Langley.
37692 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
37693 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
37694 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
37695 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
37697 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
37698 directory every time you regenerate it.
37699 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
37700 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
37703 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
37704 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
37705 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
37706 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
37707 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
37710 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
37712 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
37713 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
37714 TLS errors better in other situations too.
37715 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
37716 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
37717 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
37718 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
37719 and don't log when you are.
37720 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
37721 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
37723 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
37724 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
37725 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
37726 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
37727 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
37730 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
37731 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
37732 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
37733 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
37734 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
37735 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
37736 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
37737 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
37738 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
37739 nickname+key are allowed.
37740 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
37741 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
37742 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
37743 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
37744 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
37745 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
37746 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
37747 have quite wrong clocks).
37748 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
37749 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
37750 - Efficiency improvements:
37751 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
37752 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
37753 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
37754 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
37755 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
37756 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
37757 lowercase and be done with it.
37758 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
37759 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
37760 to abandon partially built circuits.
37761 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
37762 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
37764 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
37766 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
37767 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
37768 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
37769 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
37771 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
37772 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
37774 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
37775 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
37776 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
37777 obeying the exit policy internally.
37778 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
37779 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
37781 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
37782 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
37783 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
37784 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
37786 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
37787 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
37788 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
37789 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
37790 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
37792 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
37793 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
37794 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
37795 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
37796 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
37797 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
37798 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
37799 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
37800 descriptors we just dropped.
37801 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
37802 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
37803 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
37804 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
37805 artificially capped at 500kB.
37808 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
37809 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
37810 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
37811 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
37812 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
37813 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
37814 busy for more than 100 seconds.
37817 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
37818 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
37819 - Fixes on reachability detection:
37820 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
37821 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
37822 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
37823 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
37824 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
37825 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
37826 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
37827 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
37828 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
37829 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
37830 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
37831 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
37832 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
37833 server not already connected to them.
37834 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
37835 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
37836 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
37838 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
37840 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
37841 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
37842 are in a different state than they actually are.
37843 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
37844 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
37845 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
37847 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
37848 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
37849 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
37851 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
37852 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
37853 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
37854 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
37855 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
37856 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
37857 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
37859 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
37860 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
37861 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
37862 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
37865 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
37866 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
37867 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
37868 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
37869 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
37870 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
37871 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
37872 creating actual system users.
37873 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
37874 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
37878 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
37880 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
37881 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
37882 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
37883 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
37884 hidden services better.
37885 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
37887 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
37888 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
37889 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
37890 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
37891 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
37892 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
37893 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
37894 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
37895 patch by Matt Edman).
37896 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
37897 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
37898 required exit node for certain sites.
37899 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
37900 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
37901 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
37902 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
37903 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
37904 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
37905 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
37906 rather than just "success" or "failure".
37907 - A more sane version numbering system. See
37908 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
37909 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
37910 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
37912 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
37913 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
37914 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
37915 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
37916 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
37917 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
37918 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
37920 o Robustness/stability fixes:
37921 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
37922 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
37923 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
37925 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
37926 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
37927 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
37929 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
37930 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
37931 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
37933 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
37934 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
37935 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
37936 that will want high uptime circuits.
37937 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
37938 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
37939 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
37940 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
37941 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
37942 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
37943 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
37944 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
37945 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
37946 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
37947 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
37948 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
37949 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
37950 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
37951 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
37952 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
37953 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
37954 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
37955 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
37956 when we try to launch one.
37957 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
37958 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
37959 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
37960 "ShutdownWaitLength".
37961 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
37962 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
37963 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
37964 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
37965 and to take errno into account where possible.
37968 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
37969 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
37970 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
37971 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
37972 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
37973 file more reasonable.
37974 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
37975 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
37976 addresses -- it won't.
37977 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
37978 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
37979 for google.com" problem.
37980 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
37981 so it's not just "unknown platform".
37982 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
37983 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
37984 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
37985 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
37987 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
37988 they could use instead.
37989 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
37990 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
37991 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
37992 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
37993 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
37994 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
37995 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
37996 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
37997 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
37999 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
38003 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
38004 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
38006 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
38007 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
38008 private-IP addresses.
38009 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
38010 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
38012 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
38013 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
38014 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
38015 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
38016 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
38017 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
38018 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
38020 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
38021 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
38022 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
38023 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
38024 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
38025 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
38026 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
38027 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
38029 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
38031 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
38032 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
38033 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
38034 whether the server is hibernating.
38037 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
38038 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
38039 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
38040 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
38041 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
38042 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
38043 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
38044 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
38045 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
38046 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
38047 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
38048 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
38049 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
38050 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
38051 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
38053 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
38054 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
38055 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
38056 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
38057 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
38058 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
38059 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
38060 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
38061 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
38062 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
38063 existing torrc files.
38064 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
38067 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
38068 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38069 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
38070 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
38071 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
38072 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
38073 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
38074 the win32 SYSTEM account.
38075 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
38076 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
38077 file descriptors available.
38078 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
38079 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
38080 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
38083 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
38084 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38085 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
38086 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
38088 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
38089 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
38090 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
38091 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
38092 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
38094 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
38095 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
38096 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
38097 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
38098 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
38099 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
38100 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
38101 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
38102 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
38103 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
38104 800kB/s of capacity.
38105 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
38108 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
38109 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38110 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
38111 need as much processor time.
38112 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
38113 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
38114 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
38115 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
38116 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
38117 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
38118 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
38119 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
38120 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
38121 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
38122 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
38123 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
38125 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
38126 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
38127 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
38128 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
38129 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
38130 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
38131 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
38134 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
38135 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
38136 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
38138 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
38139 style address, then we'd crash.
38140 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
38141 a dirserver is broken.
38142 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
38144 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
38145 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
38146 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
38148 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
38149 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
38150 name out of the warning/assert messages.
38151 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
38152 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
38153 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
38155 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
38156 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
38157 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
38159 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
38161 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
38162 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
38163 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
38164 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
38165 values at once couldn't work.
38166 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
38167 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
38168 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
38169 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
38170 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
38171 they can handle any number of routers.
38172 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
38173 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
38174 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
38175 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
38176 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
38177 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
38178 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
38179 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
38180 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
38183 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
38184 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
38185 - Make hibernation actually work.
38186 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
38187 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
38188 don't use the stream status code.
38191 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
38193 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
38194 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
38196 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
38199 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
38200 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
38201 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
38202 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
38203 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
38204 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
38205 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
38206 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
38207 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
38208 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
38210 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38211 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
38212 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
38213 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
38214 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
38215 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
38216 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
38217 - Make unit tests work on win32.
38220 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
38221 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
38222 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
38224 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
38225 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
38226 than just chopping them off.
38227 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
38229 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38230 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
38231 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
38232 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
38233 right after sending the begin cell.
38234 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
38235 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
38236 exit nodes too. Oops.
38239 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
38240 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
38241 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
38242 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
38243 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
38244 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
38245 the user knows which one it's talking about.
38246 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
38247 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
38248 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
38251 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
38252 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38253 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
38254 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
38256 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
38258 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
38259 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
38260 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
38262 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
38263 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
38264 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
38265 Clip rather than rejecting.
38266 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
38267 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
38270 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
38271 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
38272 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
38273 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
38275 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
38278 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
38279 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38280 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
38281 win32 socket errors better.
38283 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
38284 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
38287 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
38288 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38289 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
38290 so we don't see those messages days later.
38292 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
38293 - Make tor-resolve work again.
38294 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
38295 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
38298 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
38299 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
38300 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
38301 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
38303 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
38304 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
38305 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
38308 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
38309 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38310 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
38311 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
38312 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
38313 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
38314 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
38315 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
38316 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
38318 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
38319 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
38320 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
38321 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
38323 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
38324 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
38327 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
38328 hibernation properties by
38329 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
38330 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
38331 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
38332 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
38333 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
38334 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
38335 get back to normal.)
38336 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
38338 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
38339 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
38340 to fill the last cell completely.
38341 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
38344 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
38345 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38346 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
38347 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
38348 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
38349 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
38350 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
38351 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
38352 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
38353 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
38354 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
38356 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
38357 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
38358 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
38359 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
38360 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
38361 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
38362 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
38363 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
38365 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
38366 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
38367 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
38368 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
38369 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
38370 have it on start-up.
38373 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
38374 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
38375 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
38376 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
38377 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
38378 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
38379 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
38380 configuration to torrc.
38381 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
38382 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
38383 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
38384 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
38385 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
38387 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
38388 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
38389 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
38390 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
38391 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
38392 log more informatively.
38393 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
38394 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
38395 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
38396 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
38397 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
38398 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
38399 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
38400 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
38401 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
38402 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
38403 from each other, to hinder linkability.
38406 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
38407 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
38408 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
38409 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
38410 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
38411 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
38412 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
38414 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
38415 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
38416 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
38417 they ran out of file descriptors.
38418 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
38419 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
38420 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
38421 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
38422 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
38423 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
38424 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
38426 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
38429 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
38430 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
38431 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
38432 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
38433 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
38434 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
38435 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
38436 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
38437 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
38438 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
38439 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
38440 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
38441 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
38442 with the control port.
38443 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
38444 use in authenticating to the control interface.
38445 - New log format in config:
38446 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
38447 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
38450 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
38451 from their dirserver.
38452 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
38454 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
38455 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
38456 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
38457 them act more like real nodes.
38458 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
38459 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
38461 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
38462 nickname to its identity key.
38463 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
38464 not on the command line.
38465 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
38466 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
38467 1024) file descriptors.
38469 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
38470 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
38472 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
38473 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
38474 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
38477 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
38478 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
38479 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
38480 exit policy, not reject *:*.
38481 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
38482 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
38483 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
38484 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
38485 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
38486 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
38487 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
38490 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
38491 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
38492 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
38493 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
38494 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
38495 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
38496 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
38499 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
38500 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
38501 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
38502 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
38503 the ones we find in directories.)
38504 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
38506 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
38507 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
38509 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
38510 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
38511 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
38513 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
38514 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
38515 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
38516 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
38518 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
38519 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
38520 any more exit policy lines.
38523 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
38524 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
38525 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
38526 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
38527 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
38528 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
38529 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
38530 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
38531 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
38532 will be able to get a directory.
38533 - Http proxy support
38534 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
38535 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
38536 be routed through this host.
38537 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
38538 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
38539 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
38540 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
38543 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
38545 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
38546 clients/servers with an open dirport.
38547 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
38548 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
38549 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
38550 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
38551 intermittent connections.
38552 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
38553 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
38555 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
38556 in reporting stats locally.
38557 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
38558 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
38559 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
38562 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
38564 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
38565 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
38568 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
38570 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
38571 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
38572 if you don't want it open.
38573 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
38574 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
38575 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
38576 intermittent connections.
38577 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
38579 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
38580 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
38581 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
38582 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
38583 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
38584 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
38585 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
38586 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
38587 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
38588 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
38589 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
38590 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
38591 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
38592 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
38593 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
38594 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
38597 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
38598 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
38599 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
38600 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
38601 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
38603 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
38605 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
38606 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
38607 specified in HTTP 1.0.
38608 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
38609 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
38610 than once per minute.
38611 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
38612 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
38615 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
38616 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
38619 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
38620 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
38621 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
38622 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
38625 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
38626 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
38628 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
38629 don't put it into the client dns cache.
38630 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
38631 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
38632 until we get our next directory.
38634 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
38635 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
38636 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
38637 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
38638 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
38639 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
38640 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
38641 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
38642 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
38643 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
38644 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
38646 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
38648 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
38649 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
38651 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
38652 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
38653 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
38655 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
38657 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
38658 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
38659 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
38660 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
38661 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
38662 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
38663 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
38664 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
38667 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
38668 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
38669 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
38670 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
38673 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
38674 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
38675 ask them to resolve the host "".
38678 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
38679 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
38680 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
38681 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
38682 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
38683 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
38684 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
38685 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
38686 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
38687 clients don't use this yet.)
38688 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
38689 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
38690 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
38691 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
38692 for pointing out this bug.)
38693 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
38694 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
38695 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
38696 kazaa, gnutella ports.
38697 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
38699 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
38700 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
38701 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
38702 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
38703 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
38704 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
38705 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
38706 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
38707 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
38708 wolf unpredictably.
38709 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
38710 that's still handshaking.
38711 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
38712 you'll choose it for your path.
38713 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
38714 end relay cell, etc.
38715 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
38716 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
38717 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
38720 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
38721 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
38723 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
38724 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
38725 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
38726 list to decide who's running or verified.
38727 - Bugfixes and features:
38728 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
38729 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
38730 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
38731 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
38732 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
38733 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
38735 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
38736 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
38737 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
38738 know you might want to get it verified.
38739 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
38742 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
38744 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
38745 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
38746 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
38747 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
38749 o Protocol changes:
38750 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
38751 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
38752 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
38753 hadn't heard of before.
38756 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
38757 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
38758 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
38759 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
38760 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
38761 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
38762 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
38763 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
38764 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
38765 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
38766 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
38767 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
38768 - Directory caching.
38769 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
38770 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
38771 directory they've pulled down.
38772 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
38773 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
38774 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
38775 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
38776 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
38777 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
38778 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
38780 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
38781 This isn't used yet.
38782 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
38783 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
38784 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
38785 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
38786 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
38787 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
38788 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
38789 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
38790 - File and name management:
38791 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
38792 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
38794 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
38795 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
38796 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
38797 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
38798 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
38799 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
38800 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
38802 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
38803 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
38804 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
38805 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
38806 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
38808 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
38809 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
38810 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
38811 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
38812 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
38813 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
38814 - New docs in the tarball:
38816 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
38819 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
38820 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
38821 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
38824 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
38825 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
38826 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
38829 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
38830 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
38833 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
38834 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
38835 - Make it build on Win32 again.
38836 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
38837 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
38841 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
38843 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
38844 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
38845 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
38846 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
38847 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
38848 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
38849 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
38850 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
38851 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
38852 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
38855 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
38858 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
38859 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
38860 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
38861 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
38863 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
38864 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
38865 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
38867 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
38868 hidden service per 15-minute period.
38869 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
38870 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
38871 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
38872 o Fixes for security bugs:
38873 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
38874 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
38875 a trusted dirserver.
38877 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
38878 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
38879 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
38880 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
38881 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
38882 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
38883 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
38884 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
38885 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
38886 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
38888 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
38889 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
38890 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
38891 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
38893 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
38894 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
38895 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
38896 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
38897 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
38898 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
38899 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
38900 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
38901 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
38902 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
38903 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
38904 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
38905 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
38908 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
38909 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
38910 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
38911 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
38914 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
38915 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
38916 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
38917 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
38918 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
38919 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
38920 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
38924 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
38925 [version bump only]
38928 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
38929 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
38930 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
38931 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
38932 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
38934 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
38937 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
38938 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
38939 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
38940 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
38941 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
38942 o Better debugging for tls errors
38943 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
38944 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
38945 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
38946 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
38947 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
38948 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
38949 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
38950 o win32's close can't close a socket.
38953 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
38954 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
38955 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
38956 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
38957 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
38958 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
38959 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
38960 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
38961 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
38962 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
38963 just close the circ.
38964 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
38965 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
38966 (this was quite rare).
38969 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
38970 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
38971 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
38972 if you decrypted them correctly.
38973 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
38974 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
38975 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
38978 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
38979 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
38980 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
38981 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
38982 a second one and it works.
38983 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
38984 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
38985 alice would just have to wait to time out.
38986 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
38987 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
38988 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
38989 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
38990 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
38991 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
38992 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
38993 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
38994 i'd still like to find the bug though.
38995 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
38997 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
39001 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
39002 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
39003 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
39004 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
39005 he retries a couple of times
39006 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
39007 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
39008 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
39009 too long (they were sticking around forever).
39010 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
39014 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
39015 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
39016 - make hup work again
39017 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
39018 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
39019 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
39020 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
39021 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
39022 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
39024 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
39025 o changes from 0.0.5:
39026 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
39027 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
39028 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
39029 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
39030 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
39032 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
39033 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
39034 in-memory directories too
39037 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
39038 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
39041 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
39043 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
39044 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
39045 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
39046 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
39049 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
39050 [version bump only]
39053 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
39054 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
39056 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
39057 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
39058 but that aren't warnings
39061 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
39062 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
39063 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
39064 the dns farm to do it.
39065 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
39066 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
39068 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
39069 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
39070 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
39073 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
39074 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
39075 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
39076 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
39077 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
39078 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
39079 expect it to have a nickname.
39080 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
39081 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
39084 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
39085 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
39089 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
39090 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
39091 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
39092 - include missing header fcntl.h
39093 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
39094 - deal with hardware word alignment
39095 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
39096 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
39097 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
39098 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
39099 by kill -USR1 currently.
39100 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
39101 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
39102 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
39105 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
39106 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
39107 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
39110 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
39112 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
39113 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
39114 - And fix a few endian issues.
39117 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
39119 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
39120 try that circuit again: try a new one.
39121 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
39122 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
39123 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
39124 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
39125 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
39126 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
39128 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
39129 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
39130 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
39132 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
39134 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
39135 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
39136 side isn't reading right then.
39137 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
39138 RecommendedVersions
39139 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
39140 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
39141 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
39144 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
39146 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
39147 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
39150 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
39154 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
39156 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
39157 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
39158 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
39159 connection is finished.
39160 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
39161 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
39162 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
39163 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
39164 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
39165 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
39166 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
39167 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
39168 rather than warn and continue.
39169 - Make --version work
39170 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
39173 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
39175 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
39176 knows it's working.
39177 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
39178 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
39180 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
39181 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
39182 so you can collect coredumps there.
39184 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
39185 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
39186 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
39187 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
39188 dns cache actually gets populated.
39189 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
39190 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
39191 end cell down it first.
39192 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
39193 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
39196 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
39198 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
39199 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
39201 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
39202 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
39203 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
39204 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
39205 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
39206 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
39208 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
39210 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
39211 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
39212 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
39213 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
39214 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
39215 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
39217 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
39218 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
39221 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
39223 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
39224 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
39225 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
39226 tor. It even has a man page.
39227 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
39228 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
39229 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
39230 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
39232 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
39234 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
39237 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
39239 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
39240 it, apt-getters. :)
39241 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
39242 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
39243 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
39244 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
39245 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
39246 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
39247 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
39248 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
39249 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
39250 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
39251 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
39253 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
39254 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
39257 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
39259 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
39260 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
39263 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
39265 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
39266 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
39267 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
39268 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
39269 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
39270 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
39271 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
39272 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
39273 logfile so you know it's working.
39274 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
39275 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
39278 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
39280 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
39281 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
39282 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
39285 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
39287 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
39288 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
39289 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
39292 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
39293 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
39294 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
39296 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
39297 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
39299 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
39300 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
39301 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
39303 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
39304 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
39308 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
39310 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
39311 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
39312 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
39315 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
39316 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
39317 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
39318 - Add port ranges to exit policies
39319 - Add a conservative default exit policy
39320 - Warn if you're running tor as root
39321 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
39322 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
39323 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
39324 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
39326 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
39329 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
39330 o Robustness and bugfixes:
39331 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
39332 really screw things up.
39333 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
39335 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
39336 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
39338 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
39339 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
39340 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
39341 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
39342 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
39343 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
39346 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
39349 - Change default loglevel to warn.
39350 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
39351 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
39353 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
39356 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
39357 o Robustness and bugfixes:
39358 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
39359 - to get ownership/permissions right
39360 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
39361 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
39362 pull down a directory again
39363 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
39364 causing server crashes
39365 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
39366 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
39367 - exit if bind() fails
39368 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
39369 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
39370 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
39371 - fix minor bias in PRNG
39372 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
39375 - Wrote the design document (woo)
39377 o Circuit building and exit policies:
39378 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
39380 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
39381 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
39382 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
39383 exists, rather than failing
39384 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
39385 which AP connections are standing by
39386 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
39387 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
39388 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
39390 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
39391 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
39394 - APPort is now called SocksPort
39395 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
39397 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
39398 hardcoded (for dirservers)
39399 - Reloads config on HUP
39400 - Usage info on -h or --help
39401 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
39404 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
39405 o General stability:
39406 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
39407 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
39408 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
39409 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
39410 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
39411 to take down the network when I approve a new router
39412 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
39415 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
39416 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
39418 o Autoconf improvements:
39419 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
39420 - Make install now works
39421 - create var/lib/tor on make install
39422 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
39423 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
39425 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
39426 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
39427 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
39428 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup