1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
6 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series
7 includes several major bugfixes from previous series and several features
8 including one massive new one: congestion control.
10 Congestion control, among other things, should improve traffic speed and
11 stability on the network once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more
12 details about it in proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
14 Below are all the changes of the 0.4.7.x series:
16 o Major features (congestion control):
17 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
18 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
20 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
21 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
22 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
23 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
25 o Major features (directory authority):
26 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
27 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
28 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
29 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
30 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
31 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
32 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
33 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
34 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
36 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
37 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
38 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
39 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
40 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
41 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
42 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
43 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
44 40363; implements proposal 333.
46 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
47 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
48 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
49 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
50 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
52 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
53 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
54 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
55 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
56 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
57 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
58 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
59 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
62 o Major bugfixes (client):
63 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
64 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
65 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
66 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
67 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
68 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
70 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
71 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
72 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
73 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
75 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
76 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
77 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
78 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
79 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
80 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
82 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
83 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
84 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
85 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
86 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
87 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
88 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
90 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
91 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
92 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
93 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
94 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
95 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
96 and not the DNS server itself.
97 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
98 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
99 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
100 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
101 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
102 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
103 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
105 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
106 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
107 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
108 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
111 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
112 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
113 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
114 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
116 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
117 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
119 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
120 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
121 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
124 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
125 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
126 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
127 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
129 o Minor features (compilation):
130 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
131 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
132 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
133 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
136 o Minor features (control port):
137 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
138 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
140 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
141 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
143 o Minor features (fuzzing):
144 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
145 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
146 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
148 o Minor features (geoip data):
149 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
150 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
152 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
153 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
154 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
155 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
156 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
157 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
158 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
160 o Minor features (portability):
161 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
162 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
165 o Minor features (testing configuration):
166 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
167 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
168 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
169 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
170 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
171 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
172 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
173 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
174 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
175 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
176 fix for ticket 40337.
177 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
178 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
179 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
181 o Minor features (testing):
182 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
183 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
186 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
187 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug
188 40500; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
190 o Minor bugfix (logging):
191 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
192 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
194 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
195 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
196 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
197 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
199 o Minor bugfix (relay):
200 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
201 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
204 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
205 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
206 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
207 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
208 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
209 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
210 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
211 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
213 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
214 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
215 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
216 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
219 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
220 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
221 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
222 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
224 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
225 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
226 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
227 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
228 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
231 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
232 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
233 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
234 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
235 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
236 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
237 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
238 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
239 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
241 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
242 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
243 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
245 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
246 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down
247 to info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix
250 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
251 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
252 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
253 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
254 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
256 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
257 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
258 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
259 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
260 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
261 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
263 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
264 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
265 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
266 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
269 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
270 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
271 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
273 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
274 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
275 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
276 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
277 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
278 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
279 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
280 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
282 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
283 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
284 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
285 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
287 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
288 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
289 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
290 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
291 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
292 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
293 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
294 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
295 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
297 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
298 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
299 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
300 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
302 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
303 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
304 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
305 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
308 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
309 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
310 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
311 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
312 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
314 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
315 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
316 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
317 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
318 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
319 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
320 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
321 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
322 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
324 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
325 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
326 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
327 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
329 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
330 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
331 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
332 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
334 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
335 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
336 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
337 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
338 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
339 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
340 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
341 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
342 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
344 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
345 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
346 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
347 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
348 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
349 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
351 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
352 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
353 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
354 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
355 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
357 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
358 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
359 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
360 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
361 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
363 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
364 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
365 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
366 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
367 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
369 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
370 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
371 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
372 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
374 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
375 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
376 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
378 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
379 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
380 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
381 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
382 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
384 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
385 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
386 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
387 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
388 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
390 o Code simplification and refactoring:
391 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
392 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
393 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
394 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
397 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
398 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
400 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
401 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
402 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
403 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
404 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
405 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
408 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
411 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
412 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
413 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
415 o Documentation (man, relay):
416 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
417 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
419 o Testing (CI, chutney):
420 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
421 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
425 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
426 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
427 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
429 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
430 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
432 o Minor features (geoip data):
433 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
434 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
436 o Minor bugfix (logging):
437 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
438 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
440 o Minor bugfix (relay):
441 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
442 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
445 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
446 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
447 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
450 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
451 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
452 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
453 See below for more details.
455 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
456 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
457 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
458 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
459 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
461 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
462 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
463 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
466 o Minor features (compilation):
467 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
468 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
469 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
470 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
473 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
474 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
476 o Minor features (geoip data):
477 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
478 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
480 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
481 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
482 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
483 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
484 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
486 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
487 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
488 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
489 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
490 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
492 o Documentation (man, relay):
493 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
494 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
497 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
498 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
499 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
502 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
503 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
504 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
505 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
506 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
507 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
508 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
510 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
511 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
514 o Minor features (testing):
515 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
516 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
517 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
518 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
519 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
520 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
521 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
522 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
523 fix for ticket 40337.
524 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
525 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
526 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
528 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
529 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
530 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
531 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
532 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
533 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
534 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
535 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
537 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
538 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
539 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
541 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
542 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
543 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
544 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
545 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
548 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
549 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
550 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
551 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
552 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
553 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
556 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
557 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
558 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
559 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
560 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
561 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
562 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
565 o Major feature (onion service v2):
566 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
567 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
568 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
569 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
571 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
572 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
573 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
574 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
576 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
577 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
578 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
579 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
581 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
582 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
585 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
586 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
587 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
588 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
589 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
591 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
592 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
593 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
594 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
595 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
596 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
597 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
598 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
599 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
600 fix for ticket 40337.
601 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
602 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
603 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
605 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
606 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
607 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
609 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
610 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
611 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
612 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
613 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
614 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
616 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
617 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
618 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
619 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
620 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
623 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
624 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
625 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
626 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
627 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
629 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
630 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
631 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
632 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
633 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
634 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
637 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
638 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
639 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
640 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
641 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
642 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
643 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
646 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
647 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
648 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
649 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
650 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
652 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
653 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
654 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
655 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
657 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
658 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
659 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
660 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
662 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
663 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
666 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
667 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
668 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
669 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
670 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
674 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
675 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
676 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
677 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
678 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
680 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
681 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
682 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
683 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
684 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
685 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
686 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
689 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
690 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
692 o Minor features (geoip data):
693 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
694 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
696 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
697 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
698 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
700 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
701 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
702 for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
704 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
705 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
706 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
708 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
709 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
710 order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
711 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
713 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
714 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
715 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
716 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
717 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
718 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
719 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
722 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
723 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
724 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
725 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
726 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
728 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
729 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
730 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
731 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
732 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
733 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
734 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
737 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
738 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
740 o Minor features (geoip data):
741 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
742 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
744 o Minor features (testing):
745 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
746 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
748 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
749 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
750 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
752 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
753 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
754 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
756 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
757 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
758 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
759 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
760 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
761 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
762 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
764 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
765 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
766 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
769 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
770 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
771 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
772 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
773 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
775 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
776 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
777 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
778 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
779 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
780 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
781 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
784 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
785 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
787 o Minor features (geoip data):
788 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
789 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
791 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
792 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
793 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
795 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
796 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
797 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
800 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
801 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
802 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
803 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
804 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
806 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
807 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
808 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
809 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
810 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
811 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
813 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
814 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
815 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
819 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
820 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
821 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
822 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
823 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
826 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
827 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
828 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
829 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
831 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
832 0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
834 o Major bugfixes (security):
835 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
836 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
837 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
838 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
839 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
840 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
842 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
843 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
844 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
845 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
846 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
847 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
848 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
849 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
851 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
852 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
853 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
854 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
855 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
856 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
857 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
858 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
859 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
860 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
861 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
862 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
863 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
864 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
865 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
867 o Major features (control port, onion services):
868 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
869 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
870 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
873 o Major features (directory authority):
874 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
875 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
876 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
877 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
879 o Major features (metrics):
880 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
881 documents. This information is controlled with the
882 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
883 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
884 328; closes ticket 40222.
886 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
887 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
888 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
890 o Major features (statistics):
891 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
892 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
893 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
895 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
896 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
897 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
898 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
899 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
900 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
901 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
902 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
903 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
904 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
905 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
906 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
907 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
908 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
909 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
910 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
911 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
912 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
913 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
914 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
917 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
918 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
919 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
920 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
922 o Minor features (bridge):
923 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
924 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
925 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
927 o Minor features (build system):
928 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
929 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
930 this. Closes ticket 40227.
932 o Minor features (client):
933 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
934 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
935 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
936 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
938 o Minor features (command line):
939 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
940 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
943 o Minor features (command-line interface):
944 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
945 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
946 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
947 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
948 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
949 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
950 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
951 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
952 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
953 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
955 o Minor features (compatibility):
956 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
957 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
958 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
961 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
962 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
963 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
965 o Minor features (dormant mode):
966 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
967 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
968 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
969 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
970 control over whether the client can become dormant from
971 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
973 o Minor features (geoip data):
974 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
975 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
977 o Minor features (logging):
978 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
979 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
981 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
982 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
983 any). Closes ticket 40308.
984 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
985 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
986 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
988 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
989 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
990 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
991 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
992 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
994 o Minor features (onion services):
995 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
996 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
998 o Minor features (performance, windows):
999 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
1000 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
1001 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
1002 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1004 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1005 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
1006 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
1008 o Minor features (tests, portability):
1009 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
1010 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
1013 o Minor features (vote document):
1014 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
1015 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
1016 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
1018 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1019 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
1020 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
1021 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1023 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1024 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
1025 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
1026 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
1029 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1030 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
1031 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
1032 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1034 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
1035 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1036 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1037 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1038 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1040 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1041 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1042 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1043 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1044 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1045 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1048 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
1049 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
1050 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
1051 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
1052 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
1053 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
1055 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1056 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
1057 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
1058 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
1059 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1061 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
1062 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
1063 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
1064 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
1065 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1067 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1068 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
1069 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1071 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1072 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1073 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1076 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
1077 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
1078 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
1079 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1081 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1082 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1083 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
1084 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1086 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
1087 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1088 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1091 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1092 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
1093 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
1094 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1097 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
1098 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
1099 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
1100 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
1101 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
1102 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
1103 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
1104 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
1105 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
1106 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
1109 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
1110 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
1111 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
1113 o Documentation (manual):
1114 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
1116 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
1117 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
1118 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
1119 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
1121 o Removed features (relay):
1122 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
1123 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
1124 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
1125 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
1126 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
1129 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
1130 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1131 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1132 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1133 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1135 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1136 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1137 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1138 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1139 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1140 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1141 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1143 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1144 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1145 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1146 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1147 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1148 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1149 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1150 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1152 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1153 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1154 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1155 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1156 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1157 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1158 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1159 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1160 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1161 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1162 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1163 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1164 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1165 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1166 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1168 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1169 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1170 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1171 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1174 o Minor features (geoip data):
1175 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1176 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1178 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1179 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1180 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1181 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1182 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1183 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1186 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1187 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1188 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1192 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
1193 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1194 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1195 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1196 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1198 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
1199 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
1200 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
1202 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1203 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1204 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1205 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1206 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1207 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1208 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1210 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1211 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1212 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1213 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1214 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1215 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1216 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1217 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1219 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1220 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1221 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1222 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1223 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1224 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1225 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1226 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1227 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1228 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1229 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1230 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1231 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1232 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1233 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1235 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1236 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1237 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1238 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1241 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1242 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1243 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1245 o Minor features (geoip data):
1246 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1247 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1249 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1250 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1251 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1252 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1254 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1255 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1256 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1259 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
1260 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
1261 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1262 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1263 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1265 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1266 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1267 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1268 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1269 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1270 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1271 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1273 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1274 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1275 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1276 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1277 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1278 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1279 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1280 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1282 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1283 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1284 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1285 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1286 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1287 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1288 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1289 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1290 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1291 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1292 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1293 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1294 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1295 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1296 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1298 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1299 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1300 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1302 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1303 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1304 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1305 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1308 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1309 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1310 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1312 o Minor features (geoip data):
1313 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1314 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1317 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
1318 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
1319 from the 0.4.6.x series.
1321 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1322 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
1323 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
1324 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
1325 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
1327 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1328 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
1329 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
1331 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1332 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1333 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1335 o Minor features (geoip data):
1336 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1337 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
1339 o Minor features (onion services):
1340 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
1341 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
1342 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
1344 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1345 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
1346 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
1347 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
1349 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1350 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
1351 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
1352 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1354 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1355 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1356 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1357 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1359 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1360 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1361 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1363 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
1364 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
1365 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
1366 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1368 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1369 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
1370 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
1371 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1373 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1374 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1375 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1379 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
1380 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1381 in earlier versions of Tor.
1383 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1384 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1385 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1386 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1387 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1388 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1389 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1390 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1391 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1394 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1395 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1398 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1399 compatibility issue.
1401 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1402 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1403 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1404 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1405 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1406 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1407 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1408 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1409 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1412 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1413 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1414 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1415 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1416 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1417 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1418 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1419 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1422 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1423 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1424 Closes ticket 40309.
1427 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
1428 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1429 in earlier versions of Tor.
1431 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1432 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1433 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1434 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1435 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1436 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1437 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1438 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1439 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1442 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1443 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1446 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1447 compatibility issue.
1449 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1450 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1451 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1452 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1453 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1454 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1455 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1456 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1457 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1460 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1461 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1462 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1463 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1464 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1465 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1466 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1467 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1470 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1471 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1472 Closes ticket 40309.
1475 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
1476 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
1479 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1480 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1481 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1482 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1483 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1484 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1485 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1486 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1487 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1490 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1491 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1494 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
1495 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
1497 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1498 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1499 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1500 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1501 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1502 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1503 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1504 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1505 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1508 o Minor features (geoip data):
1509 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1510 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1511 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1512 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1513 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1514 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1515 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1518 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1519 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
1520 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
1521 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
1522 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
1524 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1525 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
1526 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1528 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
1529 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
1530 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
1531 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
1532 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1534 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1535 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
1536 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1538 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1539 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
1540 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1542 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1543 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
1544 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1546 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1547 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
1548 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1549 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
1550 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
1551 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
1552 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
1553 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
1555 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
1556 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1557 Closes ticket 40309.
1560 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
1561 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
1562 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
1563 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
1564 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
1565 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
1566 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
1567 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
1568 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
1569 welcoming approach to growing our community.
1571 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
1572 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
1573 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
1574 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
1575 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
1576 smaller features and bugfixes.
1578 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
1579 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1581 o Major features (build):
1582 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
1583 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
1584 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
1585 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
1586 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
1588 o Major features (metrics):
1589 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
1590 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
1591 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
1592 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
1593 information and security considerations.
1595 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
1596 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
1597 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
1598 Closes ticket 33233.
1599 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
1600 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
1601 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
1602 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
1603 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
1604 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
1605 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
1606 use. Closes ticket 33220.
1607 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
1608 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
1609 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
1610 Closes ticket 34067.
1612 o Major features (tracing):
1613 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
1614 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
1615 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
1616 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
1617 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
1619 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
1620 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
1621 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
1622 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
1623 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1625 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
1626 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
1627 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
1628 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
1629 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
1630 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
1631 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1633 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
1634 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
1635 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
1636 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
1637 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
1638 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
1640 o Minor features (address discovery):
1641 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
1642 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
1643 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
1644 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
1646 o Minor features (admin tools):
1647 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
1648 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
1649 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
1652 o Minor features (authority, logging):
1653 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
1654 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
1655 Closes ticket 40245.
1657 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1658 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
1659 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
1660 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
1661 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
1662 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
1664 o Minor features (build):
1665 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
1666 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
1667 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
1668 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
1669 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
1671 o Minor features (configuration):
1672 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
1673 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1674 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
1675 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
1676 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
1677 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1679 o Minor features (control port):
1680 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
1681 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
1682 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
1683 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
1685 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
1686 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
1687 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
1690 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
1691 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
1692 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
1693 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
1694 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
1695 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
1696 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1698 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1699 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
1700 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
1702 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
1703 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
1704 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1705 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
1706 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
1707 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
1708 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
1709 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
1710 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
1711 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
1712 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
1714 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
1715 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
1716 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
1717 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
1719 o Minor features (documentation):
1720 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
1721 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
1722 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
1724 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
1725 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
1726 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
1727 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1729 o Minor features (heartbeat):
1730 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
1731 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
1733 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
1734 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
1735 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1737 o Minor features (logging):
1738 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
1739 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
1740 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
1741 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
1742 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
1743 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
1745 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
1746 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
1747 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
1748 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
1750 o Minor features (onion services):
1751 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
1752 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
1753 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1755 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
1756 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
1757 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
1758 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
1759 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
1760 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
1762 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1763 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
1764 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
1765 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
1766 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
1768 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
1769 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
1770 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
1771 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
1772 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
1773 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
1774 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
1776 o Minor features (relay):
1777 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
1778 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
1779 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
1780 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
1781 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
1782 Closes ticket 34137.
1784 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
1785 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
1786 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
1789 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
1790 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
1791 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
1792 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
1793 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
1794 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
1795 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
1796 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
1797 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
1799 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
1800 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
1802 o Minor features (safety):
1803 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
1804 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
1807 o Minor features (specification update):
1808 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
1809 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
1810 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
1812 o Minor features (state management):
1813 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
1814 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
1815 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
1816 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
1817 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
1819 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
1820 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
1821 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
1822 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
1823 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
1825 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
1826 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
1827 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
1829 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1830 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
1831 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
1832 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
1833 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
1835 o Minor features (testing):
1836 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
1837 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1839 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1840 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
1841 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
1842 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
1844 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
1845 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
1846 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1847 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
1848 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
1849 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
1850 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
1851 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
1852 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1854 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
1855 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
1856 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
1857 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
1858 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
1859 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1861 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1862 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
1863 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
1864 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
1865 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
1866 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
1869 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1870 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
1871 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
1872 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
1873 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
1874 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
1877 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
1878 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
1879 when a stream is attached with the purpose
1880 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
1881 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1883 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
1884 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
1885 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
1886 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1888 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1889 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
1890 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
1891 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
1892 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
1893 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1894 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
1895 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
1897 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
1898 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
1899 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1900 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
1901 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
1902 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
1903 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
1904 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
1907 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1908 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
1909 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
1910 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1912 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
1913 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
1914 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
1915 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
1916 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
1917 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
1918 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
1920 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
1921 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
1922 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
1923 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
1924 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
1925 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
1927 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
1928 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
1929 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1931 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
1932 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
1933 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1934 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
1935 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
1936 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
1937 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
1938 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1940 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1941 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
1942 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
1943 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
1944 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
1945 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
1946 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
1947 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
1948 Closes ticket 34200.
1949 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
1950 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
1951 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
1952 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
1953 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
1954 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
1955 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
1957 - Split implementation of several command line options from
1958 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
1959 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
1960 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
1961 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
1962 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
1965 o Deprecated features:
1966 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
1967 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
1968 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
1971 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
1972 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
1975 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
1976 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
1977 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
1978 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
1980 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
1981 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
1983 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
1984 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
1985 directory. Closes part of 40139.
1986 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
1987 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
1991 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
1992 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1994 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
1995 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
1996 31699; Patch by @bduszel
1998 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
1999 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
2000 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
2001 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
2002 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
2004 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
2005 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
2006 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
2007 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
2008 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
2010 o Documentation (manual page):
2011 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
2012 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
2013 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
2014 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
2016 o Documentation (tracing):
2017 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
2018 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
2020 o Removed features (controller):
2021 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
2022 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
2025 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2026 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2027 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2028 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2029 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2031 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2032 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2033 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2034 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2035 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2038 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2039 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2040 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2041 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2044 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2045 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2046 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2047 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2049 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2050 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2051 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2052 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2053 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2055 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2056 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2057 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2058 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2059 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2060 weasel for diagnosing this.
2062 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2063 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2064 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2065 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2066 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2067 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2068 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2070 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2071 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2072 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2073 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2075 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2076 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2077 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2078 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2080 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2081 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2082 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2083 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2084 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2085 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2086 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2088 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2089 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2092 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
2093 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2094 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2095 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2096 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2098 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
2099 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
2101 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2102 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2103 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2104 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2105 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2108 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2109 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2110 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2111 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2112 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2114 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2115 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2116 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2117 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2120 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2121 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2122 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2123 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2125 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2126 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2127 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2128 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2129 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2131 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2132 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2133 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2134 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2135 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2136 weasel for diagnosing this.
2138 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2139 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2140 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2141 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2142 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2143 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2144 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2146 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2147 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2148 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2150 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2151 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2152 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2153 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2155 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2156 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2157 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2158 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2160 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2161 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2162 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2163 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2164 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2165 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2166 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2168 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2169 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2172 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
2173 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2174 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2175 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2176 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2178 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2179 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2180 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2181 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2182 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2185 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2186 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2187 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2188 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2189 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2191 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2192 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2193 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2194 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2197 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2198 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2199 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2200 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2202 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2203 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2204 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2205 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2206 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2208 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2209 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2210 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2211 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2212 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2213 weasel for diagnosing this.
2215 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2216 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2217 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2218 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2219 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2220 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2221 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2223 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2224 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2225 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2227 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2228 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2229 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2230 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2232 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2233 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2234 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2235 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2237 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2238 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2239 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2240 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2242 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2243 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2246 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
2247 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
2248 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2249 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
2250 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
2251 intended for a different relay.
2253 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2254 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2255 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2256 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2257 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2258 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2259 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2261 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2262 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
2263 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
2264 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
2265 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
2266 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
2267 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
2268 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
2269 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
2270 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
2271 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
2273 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2274 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2275 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2276 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2277 closes ticket 40133.
2279 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2280 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2281 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2283 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2284 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2285 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2287 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2288 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
2289 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
2290 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2291 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2292 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2294 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2295 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2296 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2298 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2299 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2300 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2303 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2304 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2305 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2306 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2309 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
2310 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2311 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2312 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2313 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2315 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
2316 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
2317 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
2320 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2321 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2322 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2323 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2325 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2326 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2327 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2328 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2329 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2330 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2331 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2333 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2334 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2335 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2336 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2337 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2340 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2341 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2342 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2343 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2344 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2345 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2347 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2348 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2349 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2350 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2351 closes ticket 40133.
2353 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2354 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2355 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2356 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2358 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2359 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2360 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2362 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2363 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2364 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2366 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2367 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2368 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2369 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2370 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2372 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2373 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2374 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2376 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2377 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2378 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2379 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2380 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2381 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2382 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2384 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2385 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2386 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2389 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2390 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2391 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2392 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2393 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2394 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2397 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2398 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2399 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2400 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2402 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2403 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2404 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2405 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2407 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2408 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2409 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2411 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2412 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2415 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2416 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2417 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2418 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2419 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2420 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2421 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
2424 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
2425 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2426 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2427 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2428 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2430 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2431 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2432 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2433 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2435 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2436 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2437 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2438 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2439 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2440 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2441 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2443 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2444 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2445 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2446 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2447 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2450 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2451 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2452 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2453 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2454 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2455 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2457 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2458 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2459 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2460 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2462 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2463 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2464 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2465 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2466 closes ticket 40133.
2468 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2469 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2470 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2471 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2473 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2474 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2475 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2477 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2478 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2479 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2481 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2482 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2483 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2484 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2485 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2487 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2488 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2489 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2491 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2492 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2493 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2494 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2495 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2496 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2497 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2499 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2500 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2501 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2504 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2505 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2506 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2507 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2508 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2509 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2512 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2513 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2514 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2515 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2517 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2518 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2519 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2520 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2522 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2523 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2524 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2526 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2527 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2530 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
2531 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
2532 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
2533 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
2534 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
2535 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
2536 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
2538 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
2539 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
2540 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
2541 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
2542 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
2544 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
2545 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
2546 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
2548 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
2549 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2551 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
2552 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
2553 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
2554 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
2555 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
2556 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
2557 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
2558 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
2559 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
2560 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
2562 o Major features (fallback directory list):
2563 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2564 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2565 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2567 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
2568 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
2569 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
2570 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
2571 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
2572 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
2573 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
2575 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
2577 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
2578 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
2579 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
2580 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
2582 o Major features (v3 onion services):
2583 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
2584 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
2585 Closes ticket 32709.
2587 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
2588 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2589 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2590 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2591 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2594 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
2595 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
2596 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
2597 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
2598 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
2599 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2601 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
2602 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2603 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2604 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2605 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2607 o Minor features (security):
2608 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2609 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2610 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2611 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2612 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2614 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2615 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
2616 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
2617 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
2618 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
2621 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
2622 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
2623 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
2624 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
2625 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
2626 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
2627 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
2629 o Minor features (code safety):
2630 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
2631 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
2632 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
2633 Resolves issue 33788.
2635 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2636 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
2637 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
2638 Resolves ticket 32143.
2640 o Minor features (control port):
2641 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
2642 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
2643 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2644 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
2645 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
2646 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
2647 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2649 o Minor features (defense in depth):
2650 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
2651 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
2653 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
2654 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
2655 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
2656 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
2657 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
2658 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
2660 o Minor features (developer tooling):
2661 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
2662 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
2663 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
2664 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
2665 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
2666 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
2667 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
2669 o Minor features (directory authority):
2670 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
2671 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
2672 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
2673 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
2674 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
2676 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
2677 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
2678 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
2679 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
2681 o Minor features (directory):
2682 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
2683 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
2684 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
2687 o Minor features (entry guards):
2688 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
2689 Closes ticket 40001.
2691 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
2692 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
2693 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
2695 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
2696 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
2697 Closes ticket 33901.
2699 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
2700 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
2701 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
2702 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
2703 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
2704 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
2705 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
2707 o Minor features (logging):
2708 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
2709 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
2711 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
2712 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
2713 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
2714 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
2717 o Minor features (onion service v3):
2718 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
2719 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2721 o Minor features (python scripts):
2722 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
2723 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
2724 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
2725 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
2727 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
2728 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
2729 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
2730 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
2731 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
2732 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
2733 up from ticket 33316.
2734 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2735 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2736 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2738 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
2739 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
2740 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
2741 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2743 o Minor features (windows):
2744 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
2745 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
2747 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
2748 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
2749 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
2750 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2752 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
2753 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2754 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2755 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2756 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2758 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2759 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
2760 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
2761 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
2762 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
2763 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2765 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2766 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
2767 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
2768 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2770 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
2771 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
2772 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
2773 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
2774 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2776 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
2777 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
2778 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2780 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
2781 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
2782 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
2783 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
2784 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
2785 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2786 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
2787 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
2788 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
2789 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2791 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2792 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
2793 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
2794 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
2795 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
2797 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
2798 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
2799 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
2800 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
2803 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
2804 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
2805 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
2806 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
2807 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2808 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
2809 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2811 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
2812 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
2813 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
2815 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
2816 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
2817 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2819 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
2820 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
2821 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2823 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2824 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
2825 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
2828 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
2829 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
2830 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
2833 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
2834 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2835 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2836 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2837 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2838 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2839 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2841 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
2842 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
2843 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
2844 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
2846 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
2847 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
2848 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
2849 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
2850 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
2853 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
2854 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2855 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2856 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2857 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2858 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2861 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
2862 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
2863 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
2866 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
2867 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2868 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2869 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2871 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
2872 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
2873 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2874 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
2875 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2878 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
2879 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2880 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2882 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2883 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
2884 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
2885 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
2886 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2887 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
2888 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
2889 isolated in subsystems of their own.
2890 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
2891 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
2892 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
2893 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
2895 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
2896 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2897 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
2898 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
2900 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
2901 code. Closes ticket 33014.
2902 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
2903 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
2906 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
2907 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
2908 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
2909 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
2910 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
2911 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2914 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2915 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2916 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2917 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2918 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2919 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
2920 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
2921 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
2922 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
2923 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
2924 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2925 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
2926 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
2929 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
2930 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
2931 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
2932 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
2933 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
2934 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2935 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
2936 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
2938 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
2939 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2941 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2942 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2943 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2944 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
2945 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
2946 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
2947 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
2948 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
2949 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
2950 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
2951 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2952 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2954 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
2955 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2958 o Documentation (manual page):
2959 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
2960 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
2961 Google Season of Docs.
2962 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
2963 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
2964 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
2965 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2966 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
2967 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
2968 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
2969 Closes ticket 33778.
2972 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
2973 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
2974 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
2976 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2977 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2978 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2979 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2980 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2981 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2982 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2985 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2986 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2987 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2988 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2991 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2992 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2993 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2994 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2995 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2996 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2998 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2999 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3000 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3001 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3002 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3003 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3005 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3006 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3007 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3009 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3010 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3011 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3012 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3015 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3016 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3017 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3018 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3021 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3022 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3023 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3024 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3025 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3027 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3028 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3029 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3031 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3032 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3033 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3034 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3035 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3038 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3039 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3040 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3041 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3042 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3043 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3045 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3046 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3047 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3048 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3050 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3051 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3052 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3053 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3056 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3057 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3058 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3059 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3060 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3061 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3062 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3063 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3067 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
3068 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
3069 several that affect usability and portability.
3071 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3072 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3073 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3074 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3075 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3076 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3077 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3080 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3081 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3082 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3083 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3086 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3087 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3088 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3089 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3090 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3091 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3093 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
3094 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3095 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3096 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3097 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3099 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3100 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3101 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3102 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3104 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3105 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3106 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3107 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3108 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3109 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3111 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3112 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3113 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3115 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3116 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3117 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3118 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3121 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3122 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3123 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3124 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3127 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3128 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3129 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3130 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3131 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3132 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3135 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3136 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3137 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3139 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3140 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3141 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3142 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3144 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3145 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3146 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3147 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3148 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3151 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3152 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3153 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3154 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3155 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3156 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3158 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
3159 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3160 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3161 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3162 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3164 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3165 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3166 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3167 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3169 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3170 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3171 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3172 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3174 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3175 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3176 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3177 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3180 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3181 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3182 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3183 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3184 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3185 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3186 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3187 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3191 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
3192 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
3193 some affecting usability.
3195 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3196 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3197 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3198 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3199 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3200 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3201 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3204 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3205 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3206 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3207 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3210 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3211 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3212 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3214 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3215 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3216 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3217 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3220 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3221 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3222 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3224 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3225 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
3226 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
3227 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3229 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3230 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3231 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3232 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3234 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3235 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
3236 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3238 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3239 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
3240 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
3241 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
3242 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3244 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3245 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
3246 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
3248 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3249 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3250 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3251 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3253 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3254 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
3258 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
3259 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
3260 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
3261 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
3262 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
3263 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
3266 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3267 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3268 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3269 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
3270 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
3272 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
3273 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
3274 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
3277 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
3278 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3280 o New system requirements:
3281 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
3282 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
3283 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
3285 o Major features (build system):
3286 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
3287 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
3288 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
3289 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
3290 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
3292 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
3293 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
3294 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
3295 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
3296 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3298 o Major features (onion services):
3299 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
3300 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
3301 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
3302 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
3303 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
3304 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
3305 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
3307 o Major features (proxy):
3308 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
3309 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
3310 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
3311 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
3312 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
3313 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
3315 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
3316 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3317 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3318 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3319 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3320 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3321 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3322 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3323 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3325 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
3326 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3327 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3328 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3329 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3331 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3332 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
3333 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
3334 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
3335 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3337 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
3338 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3339 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3340 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3341 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3342 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3344 o Major bugfixes (networking):
3345 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
3346 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
3347 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3349 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
3350 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
3351 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
3352 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
3353 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
3354 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3356 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
3357 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
3358 message. Closes ticket 31371.
3360 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
3361 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3362 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3363 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3364 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3366 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
3367 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
3368 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
3369 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
3371 o Minor features (configuration validation):
3372 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
3373 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
3374 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
3375 Closes ticket 31241.
3377 o Minor features (configuration):
3378 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
3379 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
3381 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
3382 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
3383 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
3384 Implements ticket 32404.
3386 o Minor features (configure, build system):
3387 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
3388 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
3390 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3391 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
3392 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
3393 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3394 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3395 Closes ticket 33075.
3397 o Minor features (controller):
3398 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
3399 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
3400 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
3402 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3403 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3404 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3405 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3407 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3408 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
3409 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
3412 o Minor features (developer tools):
3413 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
3414 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
3415 Closes ticket 32772.
3416 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
3417 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
3418 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
3419 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
3420 target. Closes ticket 31919.
3421 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
3422 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
3423 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
3425 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
3426 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
3427 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
3428 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
3430 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3431 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3432 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3433 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3435 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3436 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
3437 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
3438 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3440 o Minor features (Doxygen):
3441 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
3442 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
3443 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
3445 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
3446 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
3447 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
3448 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
3449 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
3450 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
3451 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
3452 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
3454 o Minor features (git scripts):
3455 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
3456 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
3457 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
3458 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
3459 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
3460 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
3461 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
3462 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
3463 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
3464 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
3465 Closes ticket 32216.
3466 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
3467 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
3468 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
3469 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
3471 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
3472 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
3473 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
3474 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
3475 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
3476 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
3478 o Minor features (portability, android):
3479 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
3480 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
3481 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3483 o Minor features (relay modularity):
3484 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
3485 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
3486 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3487 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3488 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
3489 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
3490 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3491 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
3492 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
3494 o Minor features (release tools):
3495 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
3496 Closes ticket 32704.
3498 o Minor features (testing):
3499 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3500 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3501 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3502 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3503 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3504 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
3505 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
3506 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
3507 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
3508 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
3509 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
3511 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
3512 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
3513 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3515 o Minor features (usability):
3516 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
3517 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
3518 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
3520 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
3521 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3522 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3523 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3526 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3527 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3528 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3530 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3531 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
3532 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3534 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
3535 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3536 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3537 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3538 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3539 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3542 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
3543 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
3544 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
3545 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3546 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
3547 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
3548 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
3549 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
3550 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
3551 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
3552 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
3553 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
3554 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
3555 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3556 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
3557 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
3558 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
3559 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3561 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3562 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
3565 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3566 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3567 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3568 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3570 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3571 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
3572 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
3575 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
3576 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
3577 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3579 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
3580 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
3581 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
3582 Closes ticket 32213.
3583 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3584 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
3585 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3587 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
3588 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3589 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3590 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3591 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3594 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3595 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
3597 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
3598 Closes ticket 32216.
3600 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
3601 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3602 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3603 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3604 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3605 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3607 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3608 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
3609 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3610 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3611 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3612 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3613 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
3614 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
3616 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3617 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3618 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3619 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3621 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3622 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3623 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3624 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3626 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
3627 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
3628 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
3629 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
3630 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
3631 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
3632 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
3633 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
3636 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3637 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3638 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3639 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3641 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
3642 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
3643 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
3644 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3645 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3646 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3647 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3649 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
3650 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
3651 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
3652 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
3653 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3655 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3656 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
3657 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
3658 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
3661 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
3662 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
3663 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
3664 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
3665 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3667 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3668 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
3669 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
3670 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3672 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
3673 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3674 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3675 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3677 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
3678 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
3679 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3681 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3682 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
3683 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
3684 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
3686 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
3687 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3688 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
3689 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
3690 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
3691 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
3692 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3694 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
3695 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
3696 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
3697 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
3698 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
3700 o Deprecated features:
3701 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
3702 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
3703 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
3707 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
3708 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
3709 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
3710 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
3711 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
3712 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
3713 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
3714 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
3716 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
3717 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
3720 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
3721 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
3722 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
3723 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
3724 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
3725 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
3727 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
3728 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
3729 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
3730 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
3731 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
3734 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
3735 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
3736 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
3737 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
3738 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
3740 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
3741 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
3743 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
3744 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
3745 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
3746 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
3747 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
3750 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
3751 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
3752 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
3754 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
3755 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
3756 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
3757 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
3758 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
3759 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
3760 Solves part of ticket 32339.
3761 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
3762 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
3763 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
3764 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
3765 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
3766 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
3767 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
3768 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
3769 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
3770 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
3772 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
3773 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
3775 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
3776 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
3777 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
3779 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
3780 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
3781 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
3782 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
3783 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
3784 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
3786 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
3787 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
3788 Closes ticket 32163.
3789 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
3791 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
3793 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
3794 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
3795 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
3797 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
3798 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
3799 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
3800 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
3801 Closes ticket 32304.
3802 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
3803 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
3804 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
3805 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
3806 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
3809 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
3810 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3812 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
3815 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
3816 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
3817 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
3818 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3819 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
3820 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
3821 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
3822 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
3824 o Documentation (manpage):
3825 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
3826 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
3827 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3828 Google Season of Docs.
3829 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
3830 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
3831 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
3832 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
3833 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3834 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3836 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
3838 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
3839 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
3840 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
3842 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
3843 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
3844 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3846 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
3847 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3848 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3849 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3850 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3851 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3852 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3853 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3856 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
3857 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
3860 o Testing (Travis CI):
3861 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3862 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3863 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3865 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3866 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3867 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3868 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3869 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3872 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
3873 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
3874 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3875 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
3876 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
3877 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
3878 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
3879 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
3880 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
3881 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
3882 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
3883 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
3885 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3886 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3887 as soon as packages are available.
3889 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3890 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3891 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3892 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3893 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3894 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3895 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3896 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3897 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3899 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3900 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3901 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3902 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3903 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3905 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3906 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
3907 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
3908 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
3909 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3911 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3912 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3913 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3914 Closes ticket 33075.
3916 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3917 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3918 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3920 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3921 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3922 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3923 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3924 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3927 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3928 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3929 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3930 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3933 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3934 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3935 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3936 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3938 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3939 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3940 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3941 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3943 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3944 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3945 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3946 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3947 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3950 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
3951 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
3952 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
3953 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
3954 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
3955 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
3956 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
3957 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
3958 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
3959 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
3960 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
3961 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
3963 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3964 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3965 as soon as packages are available.
3967 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3968 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3969 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3970 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3971 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3972 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3973 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3974 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3975 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3977 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3978 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3979 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3980 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3981 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3983 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3984 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3985 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3987 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3988 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3989 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3990 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3991 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3994 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3995 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3996 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3997 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4000 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4001 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4002 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4003 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4005 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4006 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4007 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4008 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4010 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4011 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4012 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4013 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4014 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4017 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
4018 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
4019 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
4020 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4021 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4022 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4023 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4024 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4025 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4026 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4027 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4030 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4031 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4032 as soon as packages are available.
4034 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4035 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4036 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4037 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4038 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4039 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4040 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4041 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4042 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4044 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4045 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4046 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4047 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4048 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
4049 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4050 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4051 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4054 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4055 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4056 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4057 Closes ticket 33075.
4059 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4060 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4061 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4063 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4064 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4065 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4066 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4067 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4069 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4070 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4071 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4072 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4073 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4076 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4077 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4078 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4079 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4082 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4083 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4084 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4085 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4087 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4088 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4089 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4090 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4091 Closes ticket 32629.
4092 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4093 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4094 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4096 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4097 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4099 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4100 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4101 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4102 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4104 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4105 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4106 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4107 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4110 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
4111 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4112 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
4113 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
4114 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
4115 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
4117 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4118 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4119 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4120 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4121 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4122 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4123 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4124 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4126 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4127 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4128 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4130 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4131 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
4132 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
4133 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4135 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4136 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
4137 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
4138 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4140 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4141 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
4142 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
4143 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4144 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
4145 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
4148 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4149 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4150 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4152 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4153 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4154 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4155 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4156 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4157 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4158 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4159 Closes ticket 32629.
4161 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4162 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4165 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
4166 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
4167 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
4168 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
4169 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
4170 current version of 0.4.1.x.
4172 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4173 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4174 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4175 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4176 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4177 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4178 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4179 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4181 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4182 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4183 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4185 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
4186 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4187 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4188 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4189 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4191 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4192 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4193 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4195 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4196 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4197 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4198 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4199 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4200 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4201 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4202 Closes ticket 32629.
4204 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4205 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4208 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
4209 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
4210 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
4211 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
4212 bugs present in previous series.
4214 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
4215 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
4216 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4217 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4219 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
4220 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4222 o Major features (directory authorities):
4223 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
4224 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
4225 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
4227 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
4228 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
4229 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
4230 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
4231 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
4232 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
4235 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
4236 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4237 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
4238 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
4239 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
4240 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
4243 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
4244 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
4245 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
4246 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
4247 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4248 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
4249 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
4250 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
4251 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4253 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4254 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
4255 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
4256 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4258 o Major bugfixes (relay):
4259 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4260 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4261 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4262 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4263 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4264 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4265 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4267 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
4268 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4269 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4270 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4271 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4273 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4274 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4275 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4276 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4277 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4280 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
4281 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
4282 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
4283 Closes ticket 29669.
4285 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
4286 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
4287 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
4288 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
4289 Closes ticket 31779.
4291 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4292 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
4293 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
4294 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
4295 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
4296 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
4297 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
4298 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
4299 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
4300 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
4301 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
4302 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
4303 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
4304 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
4305 files. Closes ticket 31175.
4307 o Minor features (build system):
4308 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
4309 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
4310 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
4311 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
4312 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
4314 o Minor features (compilation):
4315 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
4316 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
4317 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
4319 o Minor features (configuration):
4320 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
4321 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
4322 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
4323 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
4325 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4326 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4327 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4328 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4329 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
4330 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
4331 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
4333 o Minor features (debugging):
4334 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
4335 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
4336 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
4337 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
4339 o Minor features (geoip):
4340 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4341 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4343 o Minor features (git hooks):
4344 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
4345 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
4346 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
4347 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
4348 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
4350 o Minor features (git scripts):
4351 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
4352 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
4353 push. Closes ticket 31314.
4354 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
4355 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
4356 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
4357 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
4358 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
4359 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
4360 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
4361 Closes ticket 31314.
4362 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
4363 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
4364 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
4365 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
4366 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
4367 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
4368 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
4369 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
4370 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
4372 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
4373 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
4374 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
4377 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
4378 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
4379 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
4381 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
4382 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
4383 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
4384 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
4385 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
4386 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
4387 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
4389 o Minor features (onion service v3):
4390 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
4391 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
4393 o Minor features (onion service):
4394 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
4395 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
4396 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
4397 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
4399 o Minor features (onion services v3):
4400 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
4401 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
4404 o Minor features (stem tests):
4405 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4406 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4409 o Minor features (testing):
4410 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
4411 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
4412 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
4413 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
4414 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
4415 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
4416 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
4417 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
4418 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
4419 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
4420 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
4421 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
4422 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
4423 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
4424 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
4426 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
4427 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4428 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4429 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4431 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4432 Closes ticket 31859.
4433 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4434 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4436 o Minor features (token bucket):
4437 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
4438 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
4440 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
4441 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
4442 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4444 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
4445 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
4446 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
4447 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4448 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
4449 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
4450 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
4451 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
4454 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4455 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
4456 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4457 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
4459 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
4460 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4461 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
4462 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
4463 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4464 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4465 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4467 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
4468 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
4469 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
4470 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
4471 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
4472 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4474 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
4475 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4476 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4477 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4478 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4479 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4481 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
4482 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
4483 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4485 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4486 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4487 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4488 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4489 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4491 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4492 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4493 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4495 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4496 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
4497 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
4498 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
4500 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
4501 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4502 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4503 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4505 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4506 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4507 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
4508 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4510 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
4511 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
4512 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
4513 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
4514 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
4515 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
4516 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
4517 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
4518 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
4519 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4521 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
4522 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4523 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4524 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4525 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4527 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4528 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
4529 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
4532 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4533 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
4534 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4536 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
4537 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
4538 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4539 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4540 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4541 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4542 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4543 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4544 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4545 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4546 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4547 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4550 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
4551 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4552 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4553 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4556 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
4557 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
4558 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
4559 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4561 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4562 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
4563 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
4564 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4565 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
4566 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4567 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
4568 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
4569 Closes ticket 31678.
4571 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4572 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4573 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4574 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4575 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4577 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
4578 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
4579 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
4580 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
4581 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4582 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
4583 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
4584 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
4585 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
4588 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4589 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4590 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4591 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4592 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4593 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4594 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4595 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4596 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4597 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
4598 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4599 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4600 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4602 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
4603 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
4604 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
4606 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
4607 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4608 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4609 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4611 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
4612 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4613 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4614 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4615 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4618 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
4619 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
4620 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
4623 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
4624 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
4625 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
4628 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
4629 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4630 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4632 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
4633 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
4634 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
4635 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
4636 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
4637 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4639 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
4640 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
4641 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
4642 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4645 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4646 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
4647 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
4648 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
4649 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4651 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4652 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
4653 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
4654 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
4655 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
4656 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4658 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
4659 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
4660 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
4661 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4663 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
4664 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4665 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4667 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4668 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4669 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4671 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4672 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4673 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4674 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4676 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
4677 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4678 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4679 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
4680 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4682 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
4683 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
4684 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
4685 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4687 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
4688 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
4689 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
4690 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
4691 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4693 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
4694 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
4695 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
4696 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
4697 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
4700 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4701 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
4702 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
4704 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4705 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4706 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4707 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4708 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
4709 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
4712 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
4713 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
4714 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4716 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
4717 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4718 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4721 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
4722 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4723 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4724 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4725 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4726 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4728 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4729 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
4730 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
4731 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
4732 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4734 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
4735 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4736 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4737 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4738 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4739 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4740 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4741 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4742 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4743 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4745 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4746 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
4747 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
4748 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
4749 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
4750 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
4751 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
4753 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
4757 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
4758 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4759 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
4760 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
4761 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
4762 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
4763 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
4764 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
4766 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
4767 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
4768 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
4769 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
4770 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
4771 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
4772 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
4773 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
4774 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
4775 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
4776 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4777 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4778 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4781 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
4782 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
4783 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
4784 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
4785 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
4786 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
4788 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
4792 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
4793 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
4794 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4795 Closes ticket 32500.
4796 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
4797 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
4798 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
4799 Closes ticket 30967.
4801 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
4802 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
4803 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
4804 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
4805 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
4806 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
4807 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
4808 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
4809 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
4810 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
4811 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
4812 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
4813 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
4814 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
4815 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
4816 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
4818 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4819 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
4820 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
4821 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
4822 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
4823 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
4824 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
4825 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
4826 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
4827 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
4829 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
4830 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
4831 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
4833 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
4834 Closes ticket 30806.
4835 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
4836 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
4839 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
4840 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
4841 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
4843 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
4844 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
4845 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
4847 o Testing (continuous integration):
4848 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4849 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4850 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4851 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4852 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4853 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4854 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4855 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4856 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4859 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
4860 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
4861 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
4862 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
4864 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4865 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
4866 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
4867 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
4869 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4870 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
4871 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
4872 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4874 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4875 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4876 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4877 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4878 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4879 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4880 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4881 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4883 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4884 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4885 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4886 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4887 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4889 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4890 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4891 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4892 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4893 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4896 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4897 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4898 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4899 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4901 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4902 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4903 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4905 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4906 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
4907 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4909 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4910 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4911 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4912 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4913 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4914 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4916 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4917 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4918 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4919 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4921 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4922 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4923 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4924 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4925 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4926 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4927 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4928 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4929 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4930 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4933 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4934 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4935 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4936 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4937 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4938 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4939 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4940 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4941 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4943 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4944 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4945 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4946 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4948 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4949 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4950 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4951 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4952 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4955 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4956 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4957 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4959 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4960 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4961 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4963 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4964 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4965 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4967 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4968 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4969 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4970 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4972 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4973 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4974 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4975 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4976 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4978 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4979 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
4980 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4982 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4983 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4984 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4987 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4988 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
4989 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
4991 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4992 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4993 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4994 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4996 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4997 Closes ticket 31859.
4998 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4999 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5001 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5002 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5003 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5004 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5005 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5006 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5007 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5008 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5009 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5010 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5012 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5013 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5014 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5015 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5016 Closes ticket 32500.
5019 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
5020 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
5021 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
5022 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
5023 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5025 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
5026 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
5027 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
5028 support until 1 Feb 2022.
5030 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5031 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5034 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5035 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5036 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5037 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5038 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5039 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5040 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5041 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5042 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5043 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5044 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5046 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5047 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5048 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5049 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5050 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5051 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5053 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5054 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5055 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5056 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5057 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5060 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5061 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5062 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5063 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5064 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5066 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5067 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5068 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5069 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5072 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5073 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5074 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5075 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5076 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5077 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5078 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5079 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5081 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5082 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5083 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5084 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5085 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5087 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5088 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5089 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5090 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5091 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5094 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5095 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5096 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5098 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5099 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5100 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5103 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5104 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5105 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5107 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5108 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5109 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5110 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5112 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5113 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5114 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5115 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5116 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5118 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5119 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5120 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5122 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5123 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5124 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5127 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5128 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5129 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5131 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5132 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5133 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5135 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5136 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5137 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5139 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5140 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5141 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5144 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5145 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5146 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5147 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5148 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5149 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5151 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5152 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5153 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5154 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5155 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5157 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5158 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5159 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5162 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5163 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5164 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5166 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5167 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5168 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5169 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5171 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5172 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5173 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5174 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5176 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5177 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5178 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5179 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5181 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5182 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5183 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5184 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5186 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5187 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5188 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5189 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5190 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5191 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5192 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5194 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5195 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5196 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5197 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5199 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5200 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5201 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5202 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5204 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5205 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5206 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5209 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5210 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5211 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5212 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5213 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5214 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5215 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5217 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5218 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5219 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5220 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5223 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5224 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5225 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5226 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5227 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5229 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5230 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5231 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5232 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5233 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5235 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5236 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5237 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5240 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5241 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5242 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5243 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5244 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5246 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5247 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5248 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5249 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5251 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5252 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5253 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5254 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5255 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5258 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5259 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5260 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5263 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5264 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5265 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5266 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5268 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5269 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
5270 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
5271 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
5273 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5274 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5275 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
5276 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5278 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5279 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5280 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5281 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5284 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5285 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5286 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5287 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5288 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5289 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5292 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5293 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5294 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5296 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5297 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5298 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5300 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5301 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5302 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5303 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5305 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5306 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5307 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5309 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5310 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5311 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5312 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5313 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5315 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5316 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5317 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5320 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5321 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5322 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5323 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5324 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5325 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5326 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5327 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5328 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5329 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5331 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5332 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5333 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5334 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5336 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5337 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5338 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5339 Resolves issue 29702.
5341 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5342 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5344 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5345 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5346 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5347 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5350 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5351 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5352 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5353 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5355 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5356 Closes ticket 31859.
5357 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5358 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5360 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5361 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5362 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5363 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5364 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5365 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5366 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5367 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5368 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5369 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5371 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5372 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5373 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5374 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5375 Closes ticket 32500.
5378 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
5379 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
5380 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
5383 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5384 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5387 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5388 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5389 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5390 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5391 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5392 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5393 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5394 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5395 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5396 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5397 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5399 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5400 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5401 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5402 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5403 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5404 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5406 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5407 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5408 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5409 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5410 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5411 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5413 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5414 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5415 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5416 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5417 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5420 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5421 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5422 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5423 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5424 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5426 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5427 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5428 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5429 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5432 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5433 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5434 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5435 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5436 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5438 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5439 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5440 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5441 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5442 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5445 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5446 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5447 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5448 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5449 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5450 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5451 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5452 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5454 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5455 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5456 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5457 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5458 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5461 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5462 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5463 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5465 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5466 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5467 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5470 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5471 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5472 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5473 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5475 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5476 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5477 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5480 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5481 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5482 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5484 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5485 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5486 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5487 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5489 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5490 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5491 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5492 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5493 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5495 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5496 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5497 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5499 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5500 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5501 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5502 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5504 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5505 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5506 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5509 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5510 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5511 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5512 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5513 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5514 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5515 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5516 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5517 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5518 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5519 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5520 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5521 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5524 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5525 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5526 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5527 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5528 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5530 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5531 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5532 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5534 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5535 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5536 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5538 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5539 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5540 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5542 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5543 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5544 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5547 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5548 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5549 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5551 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5552 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5553 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5554 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5555 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5556 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5558 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5559 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5560 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5561 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5562 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5564 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5565 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5566 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5569 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5570 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
5571 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5573 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5574 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5575 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5577 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5578 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5579 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5580 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5582 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5583 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5584 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5585 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5587 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5588 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5589 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5590 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5592 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5593 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5594 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5595 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5597 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5598 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5599 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5600 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5601 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5602 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5603 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5605 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5606 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5607 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5608 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5610 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5611 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5612 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5613 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5615 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5616 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5617 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5620 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5621 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5622 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5623 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5624 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5625 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5626 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5628 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5629 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5630 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5631 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5634 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5635 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5636 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5637 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5638 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5640 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5641 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
5642 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5644 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5645 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5646 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5647 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5648 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5649 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5650 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5651 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5652 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5653 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5654 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5656 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5657 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5658 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5659 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5660 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5662 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5663 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5664 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5667 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5668 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5669 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5670 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5671 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5673 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5674 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5675 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5676 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5678 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5679 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5680 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5681 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5682 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5685 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5686 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5687 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5690 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5691 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5692 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5693 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5695 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5696 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5697 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5698 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5700 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5701 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5702 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5704 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5705 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5706 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
5707 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5709 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5710 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5711 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5712 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5715 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5716 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5717 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5718 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5719 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5720 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5723 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5724 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5725 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5726 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5728 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5729 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5730 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5732 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5733 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5734 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5736 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5737 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5738 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5739 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5740 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5741 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5742 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5744 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5745 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5746 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
5749 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5750 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
5751 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
5752 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
5753 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
5754 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
5755 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
5756 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5758 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5759 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
5760 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
5761 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5762 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
5763 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
5766 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5767 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5768 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5769 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5770 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5772 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
5773 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
5774 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
5775 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
5776 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
5777 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
5778 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
5779 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5781 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5782 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5783 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5786 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5787 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5788 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5789 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5790 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5791 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5792 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5793 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5794 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5795 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5797 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5798 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
5799 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
5800 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
5801 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
5802 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5804 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5805 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5806 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5807 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5809 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5810 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5811 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5812 Resolves issue 29702.
5814 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5815 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5817 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5818 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5819 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5820 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5823 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5824 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5825 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5826 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5828 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5829 Closes ticket 31859.
5830 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5831 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5833 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5834 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5835 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5836 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5837 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5838 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5839 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5840 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5841 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5842 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5844 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5845 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5846 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5847 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5848 Closes ticket 32500.
5851 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
5852 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5853 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
5854 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
5857 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5858 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5859 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5860 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5861 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5862 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5863 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5864 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5865 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5867 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5868 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5869 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5872 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5873 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5874 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5876 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5877 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5878 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5879 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5880 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5882 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5883 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5884 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5886 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5887 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5888 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
5889 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5891 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5892 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5893 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5894 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5897 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5898 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5899 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5900 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5901 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5903 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5904 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5905 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5908 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5909 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5910 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5912 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5913 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5914 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5915 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5916 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5917 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5919 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5920 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5921 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5922 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5923 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5924 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5925 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5926 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5927 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5928 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5930 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5931 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5932 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5933 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5936 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
5937 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
5938 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
5939 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
5940 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
5941 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
5942 bugfixes on earlier versions.
5944 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
5945 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
5946 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5947 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5949 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
5950 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5952 o Directory authority changes:
5953 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5956 o Major features (circuit padding):
5957 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
5958 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
5959 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
5960 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
5961 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
5962 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
5963 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
5964 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
5965 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
5967 o Major features (code organization):
5968 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
5969 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
5970 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
5971 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
5974 o Major features (controller protocol):
5975 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
5976 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
5977 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
5978 Closes ticket 30091.
5980 o Major features (flow control):
5981 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
5982 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
5983 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
5984 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
5985 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
5986 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
5987 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
5989 o Major features (performance):
5990 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
5991 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
5992 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
5994 o Major features (performance, RNG):
5995 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
5996 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
5997 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
5998 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
5999 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
6000 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
6001 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
6002 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
6004 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
6005 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6006 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6007 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6008 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6009 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6010 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6011 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6012 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6013 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6014 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6016 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6017 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6018 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6020 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6021 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6022 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6023 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6024 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6026 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
6027 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6028 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6029 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6030 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6033 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
6034 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6035 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6036 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6037 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6039 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6040 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6041 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6042 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6045 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
6046 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
6047 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
6048 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
6049 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
6050 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
6053 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
6054 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
6055 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
6056 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
6058 o Minor features (circuit padding):
6059 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
6061 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
6062 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
6063 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
6064 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
6065 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6066 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
6067 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
6069 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
6070 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6071 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6073 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6074 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6075 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6076 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
6077 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
6079 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6080 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6082 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6084 o Minor features (controller):
6085 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
6086 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
6087 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6089 o Minor features (debugging):
6090 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
6091 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
6092 can use format strings to include information for trouble
6093 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
6095 o Minor features (defense in depth):
6096 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
6097 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
6098 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
6099 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
6100 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
6101 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
6102 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
6103 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
6104 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
6106 o Minor features (developer tools):
6107 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
6108 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
6109 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
6110 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
6111 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
6113 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
6114 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
6116 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
6117 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
6119 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6120 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6121 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6122 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6123 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6125 o Minor features (geoip):
6126 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6127 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
6128 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6129 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
6131 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
6132 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
6133 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
6135 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
6136 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
6137 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
6138 addresses. Implements 26992.
6140 o Minor features (logging):
6141 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
6142 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
6143 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
6144 Closes ticket 30686.
6146 o Minor features (maintenance):
6147 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
6148 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
6149 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
6151 o Minor features (modularity):
6152 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
6153 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
6155 o Minor features (performance):
6156 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
6157 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
6158 Closes ticket 28837.
6160 o Minor features (testing):
6161 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
6162 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
6163 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
6164 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
6166 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
6167 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
6168 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
6169 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
6170 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
6171 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
6172 Implements ticket 29732.
6173 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
6174 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
6176 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
6177 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
6179 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
6180 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
6181 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
6182 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
6183 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
6184 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6186 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
6187 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
6188 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
6189 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6191 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
6192 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6193 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6195 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
6196 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
6197 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6198 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
6199 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
6200 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
6201 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6202 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
6203 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
6204 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6205 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
6206 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6207 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
6208 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
6209 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6210 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
6211 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
6212 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6214 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
6215 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6216 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6217 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6218 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6220 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
6221 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
6222 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
6223 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
6224 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
6225 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6227 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
6228 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6229 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
6232 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6233 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6234 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6236 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
6237 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6238 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6239 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6241 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
6242 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6243 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6244 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6246 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6247 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6248 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6249 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6250 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6251 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6252 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6254 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6255 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
6256 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
6257 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
6258 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
6260 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
6261 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6262 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6263 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6265 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
6266 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
6267 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
6270 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
6271 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6272 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6273 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6274 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6275 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6277 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
6278 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6279 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6281 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6282 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
6283 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6284 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
6285 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
6286 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
6288 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
6289 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
6291 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6292 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6293 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6294 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6295 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6296 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
6297 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
6300 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6301 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6302 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6304 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
6305 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
6308 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
6309 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6310 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6311 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6313 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6314 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6315 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6316 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6317 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
6318 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
6319 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
6320 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
6322 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
6323 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
6324 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6325 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
6326 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
6327 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
6328 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6330 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
6331 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
6332 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
6333 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
6334 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
6335 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6337 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
6338 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6339 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6340 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6343 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
6344 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
6345 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
6346 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
6347 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6349 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6350 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
6351 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6353 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6354 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6355 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6356 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6357 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6358 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6361 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
6362 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
6363 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
6366 o Minor bugfixes (python):
6367 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
6368 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
6369 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
6371 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6372 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
6373 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
6374 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
6375 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6377 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
6378 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
6379 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
6380 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
6382 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
6383 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
6384 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
6385 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
6386 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6388 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6389 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
6390 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
6391 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6392 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
6393 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6394 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
6395 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6396 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
6397 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
6398 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
6399 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
6400 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6402 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
6403 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
6404 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
6405 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
6406 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6408 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6409 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
6410 port. Implements ticket 30007.
6411 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
6412 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
6413 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
6414 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
6415 string to directory connection with or without compression.
6416 Resolves issue 28816.
6417 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
6418 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
6419 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
6420 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
6421 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
6422 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
6423 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
6424 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
6425 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
6426 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
6427 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
6428 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
6429 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
6430 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
6431 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
6432 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
6433 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6434 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
6435 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6436 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
6437 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
6438 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
6439 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
6440 Closes ticket 29894.
6441 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
6442 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
6443 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
6444 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
6447 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
6448 Closes ticket 30630.
6449 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
6450 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
6454 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
6455 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
6456 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
6457 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
6461 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6462 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6463 Resolves issue 29702.
6465 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
6466 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
6467 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
6468 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
6469 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
6470 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
6471 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
6472 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
6473 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
6474 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
6475 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
6478 o Testing (chutney):
6479 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
6480 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
6481 Closes ticket 27251.
6483 o Testing (continuous integration):
6484 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
6485 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6486 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
6487 Closes ticket 30694.
6490 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
6491 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
6492 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
6493 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
6494 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
6495 long-term maintainability.
6497 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
6498 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
6499 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6500 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6502 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
6503 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6505 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
6506 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
6507 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
6508 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
6509 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
6510 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
6512 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
6513 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
6515 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
6516 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
6519 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
6520 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
6521 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
6522 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
6523 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
6524 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
6525 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
6526 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
6527 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
6530 o Major features (circuit padding):
6531 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
6532 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
6533 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
6534 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
6535 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
6536 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
6537 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
6538 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
6541 o Major features (refactoring):
6542 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
6543 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
6544 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
6545 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
6548 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6549 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6550 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6551 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6552 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6553 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6554 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6555 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6557 o Major bugfixes (networking):
6558 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
6559 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
6560 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
6561 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6563 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
6564 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6565 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6566 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6567 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6568 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6570 o Minor features (address selection):
6571 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6572 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6573 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6574 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6575 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6576 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6577 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6579 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
6580 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6581 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6582 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6583 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6585 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
6586 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
6587 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
6590 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
6591 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
6592 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
6593 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
6594 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
6597 o Minor features (compilation):
6598 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
6599 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
6600 Patches from "Mangix".
6602 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6603 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6604 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6606 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
6608 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6609 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6610 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6612 o Minor features (controller):
6613 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
6614 Implements ticket 28843.
6616 o Minor features (developer tooling):
6617 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
6618 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
6619 release. Closes ticket 27761.
6620 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
6621 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
6622 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
6624 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
6625 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
6626 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
6628 o Minor features (diagnostic):
6629 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
6630 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
6633 o Minor features (directory authority):
6634 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
6635 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
6636 Closes ticket 26698.
6637 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
6638 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
6639 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
6640 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
6643 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
6644 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
6645 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
6646 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
6647 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
6648 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
6649 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
6651 o Minor features (dormant mode):
6652 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
6653 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
6654 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
6655 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
6656 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
6657 background. Closes ticket 29357.
6659 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
6660 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
6661 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
6663 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
6664 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
6665 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
6666 Closes ticket 28518.
6668 o Minor features (geoip):
6669 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6670 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
6672 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
6673 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
6674 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
6675 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
6677 o Minor features (IPv6):
6678 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
6679 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
6680 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
6681 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
6682 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
6683 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6684 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
6685 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
6686 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
6687 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6689 o Minor features (log messages):
6690 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
6691 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
6694 o Minor features (memory usage):
6695 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
6696 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
6697 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
6698 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
6699 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
6701 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
6702 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6703 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6704 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6706 o Minor features (parsing):
6707 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
6708 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
6709 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
6711 o Minor features (performance):
6712 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
6713 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
6714 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
6715 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
6717 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
6718 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
6719 Closes ticket 28852.
6720 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
6721 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
6722 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
6723 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
6724 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
6725 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
6727 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
6728 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
6729 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
6730 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
6731 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
6733 o Minor features (process management):
6734 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
6735 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
6736 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
6737 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
6738 module. Closes ticket 28847.
6740 o Minor features (relay):
6741 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
6742 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
6743 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
6745 o Minor features (required protocols):
6746 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
6747 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
6748 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
6749 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
6750 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
6751 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
6752 297; closes ticket 27735.
6754 o Minor features (testing):
6755 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
6757 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
6758 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
6759 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
6760 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
6763 o Minor bugfixes (security):
6764 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6765 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6766 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6767 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6768 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6769 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6770 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6771 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6773 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6774 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6775 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6776 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6778 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
6779 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6780 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6781 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6782 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6784 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6785 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6786 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6788 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
6789 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6790 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6791 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6793 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6794 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6795 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6798 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
6799 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
6800 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
6801 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
6802 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
6805 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6806 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6807 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6808 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
6809 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
6810 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6812 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
6813 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
6814 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6816 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
6817 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
6818 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
6819 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6821 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
6822 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
6823 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
6824 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
6825 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
6827 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6828 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
6829 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
6830 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
6832 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
6833 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
6834 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
6835 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
6836 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
6837 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
6838 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6840 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
6841 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
6842 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
6843 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
6846 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6847 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6848 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6849 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6850 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6851 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6852 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6853 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6854 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6855 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6856 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6857 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6858 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6859 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
6860 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
6861 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
6862 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6863 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
6864 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
6865 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
6866 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
6867 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
6869 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
6870 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6871 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6872 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6873 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6874 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6876 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
6877 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
6878 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
6879 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
6880 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6882 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
6883 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
6884 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
6885 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6887 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
6888 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
6889 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
6890 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
6891 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
6892 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6894 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6895 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
6896 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
6898 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
6899 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
6900 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
6902 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6903 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6904 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6905 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6907 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
6908 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
6909 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
6910 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
6912 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6913 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
6914 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
6915 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
6916 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6918 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6919 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6920 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6922 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
6923 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
6924 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
6925 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
6926 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
6929 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
6930 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6931 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6932 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6933 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6934 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6935 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6937 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
6938 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6939 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6942 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6943 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6944 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6945 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6946 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6947 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6949 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6950 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6951 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6952 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6953 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6954 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6955 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6956 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
6957 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6958 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
6959 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
6961 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
6962 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
6963 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
6964 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6966 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
6967 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6968 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6969 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6970 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6971 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6972 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6973 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6975 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
6976 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
6977 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
6978 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
6979 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6981 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
6982 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6983 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6984 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6985 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6986 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6988 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6989 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
6990 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
6991 Resolves issue 28816.
6992 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
6993 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
6994 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
6995 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
6996 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
6998 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
6999 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
7000 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
7001 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
7002 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
7003 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
7004 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
7005 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
7009 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
7010 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
7011 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
7012 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
7013 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
7014 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
7015 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
7016 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
7017 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
7019 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
7022 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
7023 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
7024 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
7025 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
7026 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
7027 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
7028 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
7029 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
7032 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
7034 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
7035 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
7037 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
7038 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
7039 code from client and service into one function. Closes
7042 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7043 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
7045 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
7046 Resolves ticket 28006.
7047 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
7048 Resolves ticket 28012.
7049 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
7050 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
7051 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
7052 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
7056 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
7057 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
7058 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
7061 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7062 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7063 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7065 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7066 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7067 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7068 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7069 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7070 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7071 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7072 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7074 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7075 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7076 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7077 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7078 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7080 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7081 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7082 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7083 Patches from "Mangix".
7085 o Minor features (geoip):
7086 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7087 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7089 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7090 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7093 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7094 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7095 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7096 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7097 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7098 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7100 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7101 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7102 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7103 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7106 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7107 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7108 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7109 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7111 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7112 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7113 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7116 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7117 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7118 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7119 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7121 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7122 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7123 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7124 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7126 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7127 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7128 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7129 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7130 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7131 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7133 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7134 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7135 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7136 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7137 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7139 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7140 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7141 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7142 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7143 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7145 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7146 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7147 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7149 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7150 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7151 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7153 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7154 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7155 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7156 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7158 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7159 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7160 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7162 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7163 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7164 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7165 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7166 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7169 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7170 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7171 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7172 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7173 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7176 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
7177 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
7178 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
7179 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
7180 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7182 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7183 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7184 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7185 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7186 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7187 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7188 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7189 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7191 o Minor features (geoip):
7192 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7193 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7195 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7196 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7197 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7198 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7200 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7201 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7202 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7203 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7204 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7207 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
7208 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7209 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7210 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7212 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
7213 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
7214 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
7215 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
7217 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7218 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7219 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7220 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7221 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7222 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7223 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7224 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7226 o Minor features (geoip):
7227 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7228 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7230 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7231 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7232 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7233 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7235 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7236 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7237 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7238 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7239 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7242 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
7243 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7244 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
7245 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
7246 to this version, or to a later series.
7248 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
7249 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
7250 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
7251 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
7252 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
7253 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
7255 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7256 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7257 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7258 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7259 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7262 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7263 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7264 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7265 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7267 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7268 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7269 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7270 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7271 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7272 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7273 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7274 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7276 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7277 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7278 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7279 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7281 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7282 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7283 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7284 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7285 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7287 o Minor features (geoip):
7288 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7289 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
7291 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7292 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7293 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7294 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7295 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7296 Closes ticket 28973.
7298 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7299 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7300 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7301 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7303 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7304 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7305 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7308 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7309 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7310 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7312 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7313 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7314 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7315 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7317 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7318 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7319 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
7320 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7322 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7323 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7324 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7325 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7326 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7327 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7330 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7331 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7332 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7335 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7336 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7337 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7338 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7339 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7341 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7342 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7343 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7344 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7345 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7347 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7348 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7349 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7350 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7351 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7352 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7354 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
7355 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
7356 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
7359 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7360 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7361 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7363 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7364 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7365 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7367 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7368 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7369 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7372 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7373 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7374 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7375 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7376 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7377 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7378 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7379 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7381 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7382 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7383 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7384 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7386 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7387 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7388 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7389 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7390 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7391 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7392 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7393 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7394 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7395 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7397 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7398 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7399 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7400 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7401 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7402 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7404 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7405 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7406 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7407 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7408 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7410 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7411 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7412 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7415 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
7416 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7417 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
7418 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
7421 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
7422 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
7423 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
7426 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7427 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7428 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7429 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7430 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7433 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7434 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7435 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7436 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7437 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7438 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7439 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7441 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7442 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
7443 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
7446 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7447 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7448 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7449 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7450 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7453 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7454 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7455 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7456 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7457 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7459 o Minor features (geoip):
7460 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7461 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
7463 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7464 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7465 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7466 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7467 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7468 Closes ticket 28973.
7470 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7471 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7472 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7473 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7475 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7476 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7477 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7478 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7479 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7482 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7483 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7484 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7485 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7487 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7488 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7489 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7491 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7492 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
7493 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
7494 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
7496 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7497 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7498 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7499 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7500 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7501 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7504 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7505 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7506 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7508 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7509 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7510 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7511 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7512 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7514 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7515 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7516 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7517 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7518 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7519 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7521 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7522 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7523 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7524 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7526 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7527 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7528 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7531 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
7532 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
7533 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
7534 affecting directory caches.
7536 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
7537 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
7538 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
7539 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
7540 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
7541 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
7542 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
7543 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
7545 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
7546 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
7547 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
7548 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
7549 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
7550 so it will recognize them.
7552 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
7553 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
7554 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
7555 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
7556 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
7557 with the latest stable release.)
7559 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
7560 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7562 o Major features (bootstrap):
7563 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
7564 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
7565 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
7566 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
7568 o Major features (new code layout):
7569 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
7570 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
7571 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
7572 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
7573 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
7574 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
7575 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
7577 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
7578 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
7579 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
7581 o Major features (onion services v3):
7582 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
7583 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
7584 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
7585 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
7586 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
7587 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
7588 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
7589 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
7590 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
7591 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
7592 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
7593 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
7594 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
7595 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
7596 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
7597 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
7598 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
7599 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
7601 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
7602 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
7603 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
7604 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
7605 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
7606 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
7608 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
7609 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
7610 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
7611 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
7612 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
7613 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
7614 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
7616 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
7617 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
7618 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
7619 (if present), and restart Tor.
7621 o Major features (relay, UI change):
7622 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
7623 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
7624 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
7625 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
7626 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7627 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
7628 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
7630 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
7631 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7632 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7634 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
7635 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
7636 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
7637 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
7638 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
7639 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7641 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7642 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
7643 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
7644 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
7647 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
7648 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
7649 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
7650 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
7651 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7653 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
7654 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7655 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7656 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7657 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7659 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
7660 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
7661 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
7662 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
7663 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
7664 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
7666 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
7667 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7668 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7669 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7670 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7673 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
7674 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
7675 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
7676 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
7677 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
7678 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
7680 o Major bugfixes (relay):
7681 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7682 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7683 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7684 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7686 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7687 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7688 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7689 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7690 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7691 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7693 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
7694 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7695 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7696 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7698 o Minor features (admin tools):
7699 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
7700 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
7703 o Minor features (build):
7704 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
7705 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
7706 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
7707 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
7709 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
7710 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
7711 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
7712 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
7713 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
7715 o Minor features (code layout):
7716 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
7717 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
7718 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
7719 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
7722 o Minor features (compilation):
7723 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
7724 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
7725 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
7726 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
7727 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
7728 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
7731 o Minor features (config):
7732 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
7735 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7736 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
7738 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
7739 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
7740 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7741 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7742 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7743 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
7744 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
7746 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7747 Implements ticket 27252.
7748 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
7749 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
7750 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7751 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7752 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7753 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7754 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7755 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7756 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7758 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
7759 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
7760 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
7762 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
7763 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
7765 o Minor features (controller):
7766 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
7767 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
7768 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
7769 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
7770 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7771 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7772 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7773 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7775 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
7776 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
7777 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
7778 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
7780 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
7781 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
7782 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
7783 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7785 o Minor features (development):
7786 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
7787 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
7789 o Minor features (directory authority):
7790 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
7791 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
7792 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
7793 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
7795 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
7796 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
7799 o Minor features (embedding API):
7800 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
7801 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
7802 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
7803 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
7804 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
7805 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
7808 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7809 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7810 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7811 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7812 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7814 o Minor features (geoip):
7815 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7816 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
7818 o Minor features (memory management):
7819 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
7820 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
7823 o Minor features (memory usage):
7824 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
7825 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
7826 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
7828 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
7829 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7830 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7831 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7832 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7833 Closes ticket 28973.
7835 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
7836 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
7837 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
7839 o Minor features (performance):
7840 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
7841 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
7842 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
7843 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
7844 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
7845 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
7846 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
7847 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
7848 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
7849 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
7851 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
7852 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
7853 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
7854 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
7856 o Minor features (testing):
7857 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
7858 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
7860 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
7861 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
7862 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
7864 o Minor features (UI):
7865 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
7866 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
7867 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
7868 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
7869 Closes ticket 26703.
7871 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
7872 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
7873 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
7874 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
7875 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7877 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
7878 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
7879 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7880 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
7881 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
7884 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
7885 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
7886 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
7887 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
7889 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7890 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
7891 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
7892 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7893 - Use time_t for all values in
7894 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
7895 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
7896 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7898 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
7899 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
7900 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
7901 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
7902 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
7905 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
7906 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
7907 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
7908 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
7909 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
7910 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7912 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
7913 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
7914 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
7915 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7917 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
7918 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7919 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7922 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7923 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7924 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7925 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7927 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7928 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
7929 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
7932 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
7933 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
7934 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
7935 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
7936 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
7938 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
7939 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7940 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7941 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7942 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7945 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
7946 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
7947 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7948 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
7949 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
7950 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
7951 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7952 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
7953 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
7954 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
7955 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7956 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7957 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7959 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7960 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7961 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7963 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
7964 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
7965 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
7966 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
7967 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
7970 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7971 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
7972 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
7973 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
7974 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
7976 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
7977 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
7978 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7980 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
7981 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7982 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7983 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7984 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7985 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7988 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
7989 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
7990 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
7993 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
7994 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
7995 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
7996 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
7997 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7999 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8000 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
8001 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
8004 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8005 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
8006 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
8008 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
8009 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
8010 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
8011 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8012 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
8013 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
8015 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
8016 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
8017 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
8018 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
8019 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8021 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8022 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8023 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8024 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
8025 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8027 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
8028 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8029 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8031 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
8032 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
8033 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
8034 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
8037 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8038 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8039 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8040 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8041 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8042 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8043 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
8044 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
8045 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
8047 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
8048 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
8050 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8051 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8052 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8053 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8054 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8055 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8056 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8057 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8058 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8059 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8060 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8062 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
8063 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
8064 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
8065 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8067 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
8068 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
8069 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
8070 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
8071 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
8073 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
8074 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
8075 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
8076 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
8078 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
8079 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8080 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8083 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
8084 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
8086 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8087 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8088 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8089 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8090 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8091 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8092 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8093 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8094 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8095 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8097 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
8098 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
8099 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
8100 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
8101 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8103 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
8104 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8105 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8106 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8108 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8109 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
8110 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
8111 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
8112 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
8113 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8114 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8115 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
8116 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
8117 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8119 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8120 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
8121 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
8122 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8123 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8124 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8125 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8126 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8127 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8129 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
8130 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
8131 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8132 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
8133 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8134 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8135 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8136 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8137 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8138 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8139 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
8140 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
8141 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8142 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
8143 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8145 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
8146 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
8147 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
8148 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
8149 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
8150 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
8151 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
8152 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
8154 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
8155 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
8156 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
8157 reported by Keifer Bly.
8159 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8160 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
8161 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
8163 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
8164 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
8165 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
8166 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
8167 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
8168 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
8169 Closes ticket 27814.
8170 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
8171 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
8172 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
8173 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
8174 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
8175 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
8176 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
8177 Closes ticket 27799.
8178 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
8179 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
8180 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
8181 directory within the top-level src directory.
8182 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
8183 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
8184 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
8185 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
8186 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
8187 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
8188 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
8189 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
8190 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
8191 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
8192 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
8193 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
8194 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
8195 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
8196 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
8197 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
8198 Closes ticket 21349.
8199 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
8200 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
8201 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
8202 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
8203 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
8204 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
8205 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
8207 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
8208 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
8209 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
8212 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
8213 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
8214 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
8215 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
8216 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
8217 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
8218 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
8219 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
8220 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
8223 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
8224 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
8225 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
8226 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
8227 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
8228 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
8229 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
8230 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
8231 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
8232 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
8233 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
8234 Closes ticket 26367.
8237 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
8238 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
8240 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
8241 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
8242 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
8243 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
8244 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
8245 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
8246 Closes ticket 19566.
8248 o Documentation (onion services):
8249 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
8250 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
8251 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
8252 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
8253 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
8254 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
8255 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
8256 process. Closes ticket 28275.
8259 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
8260 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8261 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
8262 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
8263 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
8265 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8266 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8267 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8269 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8270 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8271 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8272 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8273 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8275 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8276 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8277 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8278 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8279 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8282 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8283 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8284 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8285 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8287 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8288 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8289 Implements ticket 27252.
8290 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8291 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8292 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8293 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8294 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8295 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8296 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8298 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8299 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8300 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8301 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8303 o Minor features (geoip):
8304 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8305 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
8307 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8308 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8309 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8310 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8311 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8313 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8314 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8315 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8316 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8317 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8320 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8321 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8322 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8325 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8326 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8327 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8328 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8329 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8331 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8332 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8333 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8335 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8336 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8337 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8339 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8340 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8341 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8342 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8344 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8345 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8346 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8348 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8349 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8350 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8353 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8354 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8355 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8357 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8358 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8359 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8362 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8363 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8364 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8365 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8366 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8368 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8369 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8370 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8371 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8372 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8373 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8375 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8376 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8377 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8380 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8381 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8382 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8383 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8384 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8385 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8386 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8387 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8389 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8390 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8391 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8392 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8394 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8395 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8396 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8397 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8398 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8400 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8401 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8402 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8403 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8404 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8405 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8407 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8408 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8409 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8410 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8411 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8412 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8414 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8415 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8416 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8417 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8420 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8421 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8422 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8423 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8424 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8427 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
8428 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
8430 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8431 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8432 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8433 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8435 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8436 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8438 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8439 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8440 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8441 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8443 o Minor features (geoip):
8444 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8445 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8447 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8448 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8449 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8450 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8452 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8453 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8454 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8455 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8456 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8457 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8458 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8459 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8462 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8463 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8464 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8465 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8467 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8468 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8469 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8470 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8472 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8473 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8474 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8475 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8477 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8478 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8479 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8480 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8481 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8483 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8484 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8485 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8488 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8489 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8490 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8491 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8492 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8494 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8495 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8496 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8499 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8500 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8501 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8502 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8504 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8505 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8506 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8508 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8509 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8510 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8513 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8514 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8515 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8516 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8517 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8519 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8520 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8521 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8524 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
8525 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8527 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8528 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8529 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8530 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8532 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8533 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8535 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8536 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8537 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8538 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8540 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8541 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8544 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8545 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8546 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8547 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8549 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8550 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8551 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8552 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8554 o Minor features (geoip):
8555 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8556 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8558 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8559 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8560 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8561 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8562 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8563 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8564 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8566 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8567 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8568 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8569 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8570 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8571 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8572 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8573 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8576 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8577 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8578 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8579 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8581 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8582 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8583 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8584 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8586 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8587 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8588 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8589 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8590 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8592 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8593 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8594 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8595 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8596 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8598 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8599 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8600 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8603 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8604 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8605 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8606 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8607 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8609 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8610 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8611 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8614 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8615 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8616 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8619 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8620 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8621 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8624 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8625 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8627 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8628 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8629 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8630 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8632 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8633 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8634 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8635 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8637 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8638 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8639 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8641 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8642 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8643 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8644 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8645 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8646 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8647 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8650 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
8651 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
8652 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
8653 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
8654 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8656 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8657 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8658 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8659 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8660 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8662 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8663 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8664 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8667 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
8668 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8670 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8671 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8672 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8673 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8675 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8676 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8677 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8678 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8680 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8681 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8682 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8684 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8685 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8686 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8687 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8689 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8690 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8693 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8694 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8695 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8696 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8698 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8699 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8700 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8701 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8703 o Minor features (geoip):
8704 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8705 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8707 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8708 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8709 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8710 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8711 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8712 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8713 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8715 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8716 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8717 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8718 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8719 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8720 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8721 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8722 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8725 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8726 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8727 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8728 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8730 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8731 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8732 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8733 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8735 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8736 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8737 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8738 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8739 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8741 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8742 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8743 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8744 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8745 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8747 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8748 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8749 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8752 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8753 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
8754 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
8755 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8757 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8758 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8759 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8760 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8761 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8763 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8764 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8765 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8768 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8769 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8770 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8773 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8774 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8775 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8778 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8779 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
8780 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
8781 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8783 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8784 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
8785 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
8788 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8789 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8791 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8792 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8793 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
8794 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
8795 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8796 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
8797 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
8799 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8800 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8801 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
8802 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
8803 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
8805 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8806 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8807 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8808 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8810 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8811 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8812 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8814 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8815 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8816 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8817 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8818 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8819 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8820 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8823 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8824 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8825 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8826 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8827 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8829 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8830 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
8831 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
8832 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
8833 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8835 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8836 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8837 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8840 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
8841 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8842 compilation and portability fixes.
8844 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
8845 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
8846 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
8847 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
8848 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
8849 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
8850 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
8851 our anti-denial-of-service code.
8853 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
8854 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8856 o New system requirements:
8857 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
8858 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
8859 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
8860 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
8862 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
8863 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
8864 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
8865 To disable the module, the configure option
8866 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
8867 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
8869 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
8870 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
8871 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
8872 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
8873 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
8874 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
8875 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
8876 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
8877 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
8878 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
8879 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
8881 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
8882 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
8883 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
8884 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
8885 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
8886 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
8887 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
8888 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
8889 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
8890 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
8891 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
8892 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
8893 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
8894 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
8895 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
8896 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
8897 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
8898 Tor's uptime (26009).
8900 o Minor features (accounting):
8901 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
8902 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
8903 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
8904 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
8906 o Minor features (bug workaround):
8907 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8908 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8909 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8911 o Minor features (code quality):
8912 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
8913 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
8914 Closes ticket 25024.
8916 o Minor features (compatibility):
8917 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8918 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8919 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8920 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
8921 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
8922 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
8924 o Minor features (compilation):
8925 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8926 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8927 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8928 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8929 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8930 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8931 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
8932 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
8935 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
8936 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
8937 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
8938 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
8939 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
8940 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
8942 o Minor features (configuration):
8943 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
8944 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
8945 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
8946 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
8947 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
8949 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8950 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
8951 Implements ticket 27449.
8952 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
8953 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
8955 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8956 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8958 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8959 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8960 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
8961 Implements ticket 27275.
8962 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8963 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8964 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
8965 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
8966 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
8968 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
8969 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8972 o Minor features (control port):
8973 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
8974 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
8975 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
8976 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8977 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
8978 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
8979 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
8980 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
8981 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
8982 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
8984 o Minor features (controller):
8985 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8986 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8987 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8989 o Minor features (directory authorities):
8990 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
8991 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
8992 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
8993 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8994 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8995 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8997 o Minor features (directory authority):
8998 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
8999 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
9000 Closes ticket 23909.
9002 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
9003 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
9004 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
9005 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
9007 o Minor features (entry guards):
9008 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
9009 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
9011 o Minor features (geoip):
9012 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9013 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9015 o Minor features (performance):
9016 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
9017 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
9018 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
9019 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
9021 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
9022 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
9024 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
9025 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
9027 o Minor features (testing):
9028 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
9029 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
9031 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
9032 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
9033 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
9034 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
9035 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
9036 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
9038 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
9039 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
9040 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
9041 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
9042 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9044 o Minor features (unit tests):
9045 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
9046 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
9047 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
9050 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
9051 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
9052 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
9053 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
9054 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
9055 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
9057 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9058 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
9059 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
9060 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
9062 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9063 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
9064 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9065 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
9066 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
9068 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9069 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9070 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9071 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9072 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9073 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9074 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9075 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9077 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9078 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9079 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9080 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9081 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
9082 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
9083 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9084 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
9085 Closes ticket 26245.
9086 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
9087 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
9088 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9090 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
9091 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9092 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9093 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9095 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9096 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9097 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9098 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9099 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9101 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9102 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
9103 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
9104 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
9105 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9106 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
9107 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
9108 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9109 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
9110 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
9111 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
9112 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9114 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
9115 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
9116 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
9119 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9120 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9121 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9124 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9125 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
9126 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9127 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
9128 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
9129 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
9132 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
9133 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
9134 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
9135 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
9136 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
9137 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
9138 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9140 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
9141 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9142 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9143 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9145 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9146 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9147 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9148 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9149 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9151 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9152 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9153 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9156 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9157 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9158 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9160 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9161 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9163 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
9164 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
9165 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
9166 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
9167 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9169 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9170 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9171 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9173 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9174 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9175 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9176 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
9177 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
9180 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
9181 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
9182 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
9183 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9185 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9186 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
9187 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
9188 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
9189 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
9190 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
9191 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
9193 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
9194 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9196 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9197 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9198 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9199 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9200 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9202 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9203 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9204 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9205 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9206 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9208 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
9209 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
9210 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
9211 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9213 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
9214 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
9215 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
9216 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
9219 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9220 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9221 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9222 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
9223 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
9224 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
9225 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
9226 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9227 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
9228 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
9230 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
9231 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
9232 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9233 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
9234 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
9235 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
9236 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
9238 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
9239 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
9240 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
9241 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
9242 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
9244 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
9245 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
9246 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
9249 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
9250 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
9251 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
9252 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
9253 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9255 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
9256 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9257 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9258 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9259 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9260 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9261 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9264 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9265 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9266 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9267 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9268 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9270 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
9271 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9272 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9273 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9274 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9276 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
9277 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
9278 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
9279 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
9280 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
9281 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9283 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
9284 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9285 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9287 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9288 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
9289 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
9290 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9291 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
9292 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
9293 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
9294 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
9296 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
9297 confusing we renamed some functions and
9298 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
9299 router_should_check_reachability() and
9300 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
9301 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
9302 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
9303 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
9304 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
9306 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
9307 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
9309 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
9310 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
9311 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9312 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
9313 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
9314 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
9315 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
9316 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
9317 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
9318 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
9319 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
9320 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
9321 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
9322 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
9323 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
9324 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9325 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
9326 Closes ticket 25766.
9327 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
9328 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
9329 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
9330 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
9331 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
9332 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9333 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
9334 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
9335 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
9336 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
9337 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9338 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
9339 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
9340 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
9342 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
9343 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
9344 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
9345 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
9346 before. Closes ticket 26016.
9347 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
9348 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
9349 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
9350 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
9352 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
9353 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
9354 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
9355 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9357 o Deprecated features:
9358 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
9359 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
9360 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
9361 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
9362 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
9363 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
9366 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
9367 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
9368 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
9369 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
9370 24378 and proposal 290.
9371 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
9372 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
9373 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
9374 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
9375 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
9376 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
9377 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
9378 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
9379 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
9380 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
9381 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
9382 their local router. Closes 25409.
9383 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
9384 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
9385 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
9386 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
9387 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
9388 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
9389 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
9390 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
9391 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
9392 Closes ticket 25268.
9395 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
9396 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9397 bridge relays should upgrade.
9399 o Directory authority changes:
9400 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9401 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9402 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9405 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
9406 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9407 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9410 o Directory authority changes:
9411 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9412 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9413 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9415 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9416 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9417 Closes ticket 26343.
9419 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9420 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9421 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9422 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9423 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9425 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9426 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9427 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9429 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9430 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9431 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9432 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9434 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9435 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9436 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9438 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9439 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9440 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9441 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9442 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9443 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9445 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9446 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9447 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9448 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9450 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9451 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9452 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9455 o Minor features (geoip):
9456 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9457 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9459 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9460 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9461 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9462 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9463 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9465 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9466 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9467 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9469 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9470 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9471 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9472 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9473 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9474 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9475 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9476 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9479 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9480 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9481 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9482 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9483 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9484 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9486 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9487 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
9488 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
9489 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
9490 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9492 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9493 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9494 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9495 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9496 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9498 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9499 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9500 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9503 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9504 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9505 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9507 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9508 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9509 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9510 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9512 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9513 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9514 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9515 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9516 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9517 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9518 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9520 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9521 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9522 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9523 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9526 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9527 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9528 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9530 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9531 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9532 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9534 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9535 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
9536 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
9537 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
9540 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9541 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
9542 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
9543 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9545 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9546 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9547 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9549 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9550 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9551 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9554 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
9555 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9556 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9559 o Directory authority changes:
9560 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9561 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9562 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9564 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9565 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9566 Closes ticket 26343.
9568 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9569 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9570 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9571 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9572 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9574 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9575 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9576 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9577 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9579 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9580 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9581 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9582 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9583 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9584 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9586 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9587 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9588 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9591 o Minor features (geoip):
9592 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9593 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9595 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9596 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9597 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9598 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9599 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9601 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9602 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9603 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9605 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9606 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9607 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9608 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9611 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9612 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9613 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9614 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9615 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9616 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9618 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9619 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9620 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9621 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9622 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9624 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9625 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9626 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9629 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9630 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9631 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9633 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9634 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9635 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9636 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9638 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9639 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9640 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9642 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9643 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9644 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9647 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
9648 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9649 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
9651 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9652 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
9653 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
9654 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9656 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9657 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
9658 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
9661 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9662 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9663 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9666 o Minor features (geoip):
9667 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9668 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9670 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9671 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9672 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9673 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9675 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9676 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
9677 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
9678 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
9679 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
9682 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9683 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9684 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9685 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9686 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9688 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9689 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
9690 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
9691 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9693 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9694 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9695 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9697 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9698 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9699 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9700 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9703 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9704 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
9705 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
9706 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9708 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9709 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9710 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9711 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9712 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9713 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9714 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9715 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9719 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
9720 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9721 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
9723 o Directory authority changes:
9724 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9725 Closes ticket 26343.
9727 o Minor features (geoip):
9728 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9729 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
9731 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9732 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9733 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9734 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9735 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9736 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9738 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9739 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9740 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9742 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9743 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
9744 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
9745 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
9746 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9748 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9749 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9750 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9752 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9753 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
9754 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
9755 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
9756 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
9757 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9760 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
9761 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
9762 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9764 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
9765 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
9766 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
9767 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
9768 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
9769 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
9771 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
9772 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9774 o New system requirements:
9775 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
9776 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
9778 o Major features (embedding):
9779 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
9780 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
9781 Closes ticket 23684.
9782 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
9783 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
9784 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
9785 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
9786 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
9787 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
9789 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
9790 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
9791 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
9792 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
9794 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
9795 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
9796 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
9797 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
9798 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
9800 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
9801 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
9804 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
9805 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
9806 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
9807 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
9808 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
9809 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
9810 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
9812 o Major features (onion services):
9813 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
9814 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
9815 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
9816 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
9817 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
9819 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
9820 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
9821 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
9822 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
9823 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
9824 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9826 o Major features (relay):
9827 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
9828 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
9829 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
9830 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
9831 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
9833 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
9834 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
9835 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
9836 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
9837 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
9838 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
9839 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
9840 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
9842 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9843 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9844 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9845 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9846 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9848 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
9849 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
9850 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
9851 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
9852 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
9854 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9855 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
9856 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
9857 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9859 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
9860 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
9861 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
9862 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
9863 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
9864 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
9865 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
9866 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9868 o Major bugfixes (networking):
9869 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
9870 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
9871 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
9873 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9874 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9875 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9877 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
9878 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
9879 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
9880 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
9881 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
9882 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
9883 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
9885 o Major bugfixes (relay):
9886 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
9887 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
9888 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
9889 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9891 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9892 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
9893 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
9896 o Minor features (cleanup):
9897 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
9898 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
9900 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9901 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
9902 Closes ticket 26006.
9904 o Minor features (config options):
9905 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
9906 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
9907 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
9910 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9911 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9912 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9914 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9915 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9916 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9917 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9918 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9919 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9921 o Minor features (defensive programming):
9922 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
9923 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
9924 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
9925 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
9926 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
9927 once. Part of ticket 24337.
9928 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
9929 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
9930 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
9932 o Minor features (directory authority):
9933 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
9934 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
9936 o Minor features (embedding):
9937 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
9938 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
9939 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
9940 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
9941 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
9942 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
9943 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
9944 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
9945 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
9946 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
9947 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
9948 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
9949 Closes ticket 23848.
9950 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
9951 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
9952 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
9954 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9955 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
9956 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
9957 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
9958 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
9959 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
9960 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
9961 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
9964 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
9965 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
9966 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
9967 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
9968 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
9969 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
9970 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
9972 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
9973 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
9974 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
9975 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
9976 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
9977 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
9978 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
9979 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
9980 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
9981 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
9982 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
9983 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
9985 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
9986 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
9987 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
9989 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
9990 Implements ticket 24791.
9992 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
9993 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
9994 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
9995 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
9996 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
9997 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
9999 o Minor features (geoip):
10000 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
10001 database. Closes ticket 26104.
10003 o Minor features (heartbeat):
10004 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
10005 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
10008 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
10009 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
10010 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
10011 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
10012 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
10014 o Minor features (IPv6):
10015 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
10016 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
10017 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
10018 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
10019 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
10022 o Minor features (log messages):
10023 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
10024 information about memory usage from the different compression
10025 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
10026 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
10027 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
10028 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
10029 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
10031 o Minor features (logging):
10032 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
10033 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
10034 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
10037 o Minor features (performance):
10038 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
10039 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
10040 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
10041 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
10043 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
10044 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10045 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
10046 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
10047 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10048 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
10049 Implements ticket 24374.
10051 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
10052 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
10053 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
10054 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
10055 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
10057 o Minor features (performance, windows):
10058 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
10059 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
10060 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
10063 o Minor features (sandbox):
10064 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10065 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10066 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10068 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
10069 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
10070 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
10071 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
10072 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
10074 o Minor features (testing):
10075 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
10078 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
10079 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
10080 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
10081 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
10082 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
10083 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
10084 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
10085 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
10086 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
10088 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
10089 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
10090 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
10091 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
10092 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
10093 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
10094 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10095 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
10096 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
10099 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10100 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10101 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10102 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10104 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
10105 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
10106 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10108 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
10109 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
10110 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
10111 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
10112 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10114 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10115 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10116 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10119 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10120 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10121 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10122 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10124 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10125 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
10126 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
10127 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10128 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
10129 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
10130 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10132 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10133 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
10134 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
10135 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10137 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10138 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10139 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10140 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10141 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10143 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
10144 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
10145 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
10146 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
10149 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10150 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10151 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10152 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10153 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10155 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10156 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
10157 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
10158 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
10159 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
10162 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
10163 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
10164 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
10165 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
10166 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
10168 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
10169 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
10170 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
10173 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
10174 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
10175 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
10177 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
10178 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10179 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
10180 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
10181 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
10183 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
10184 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
10185 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
10186 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10188 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
10189 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
10190 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10191 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
10192 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
10193 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10195 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10196 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
10197 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
10198 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
10200 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10201 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10202 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10204 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10205 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
10206 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
10207 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10209 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
10210 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
10211 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
10212 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
10215 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10216 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
10217 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
10218 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
10219 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10220 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
10223 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
10224 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
10225 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
10226 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10228 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
10229 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
10230 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
10232 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10233 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
10234 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
10235 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
10236 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
10237 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10239 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10240 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10241 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10242 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10243 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10244 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10245 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10247 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10248 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
10249 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
10250 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
10252 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10253 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
10254 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
10255 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
10256 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
10258 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
10259 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
10260 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
10261 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
10262 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
10263 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10265 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
10266 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
10267 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
10268 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
10269 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
10270 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10271 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
10272 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
10273 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
10274 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
10275 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
10276 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10278 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10279 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10280 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10282 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
10283 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
10284 would call the Rust implementation of
10285 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
10286 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
10287 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
10288 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
10289 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10291 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
10292 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
10293 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
10294 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
10296 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10297 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10298 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10299 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10301 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
10302 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10304 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
10305 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
10306 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
10307 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
10308 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
10309 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10311 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10312 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10313 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10314 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
10315 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
10317 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
10319 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
10320 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
10321 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
10323 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
10325 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
10326 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
10327 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
10328 "aruna1234" and teor.
10329 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
10330 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
10331 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
10332 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
10334 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
10335 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
10336 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
10337 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
10338 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
10339 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
10340 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
10341 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
10342 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
10343 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
10345 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
10346 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
10349 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
10351 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
10352 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
10353 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
10354 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
10356 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
10357 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
10358 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
10359 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
10361 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
10362 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
10363 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
10364 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
10365 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
10367 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
10368 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
10369 adding very little except for unit test.
10371 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
10372 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
10373 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
10374 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
10376 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
10377 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
10378 const. Implements ticket 24489.
10380 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10381 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
10382 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
10384 o Documentation (man page):
10385 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
10386 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
10389 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
10390 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
10391 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
10395 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
10396 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
10399 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10400 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10402 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10403 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10405 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10408 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10409 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
10410 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10412 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
10413 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
10414 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
10415 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
10418 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10419 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10420 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10421 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10424 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10425 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10426 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10427 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10428 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10429 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10430 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10431 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10432 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10433 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10434 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10435 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10436 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10438 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10439 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10440 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10442 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10443 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10444 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10445 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10446 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10447 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10448 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10450 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10451 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10452 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10454 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10455 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10456 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10457 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10458 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10459 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10460 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10462 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10463 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10464 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10465 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10467 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10468 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10469 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10470 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10472 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10473 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10474 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10475 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10476 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10477 Closes ticket 24978.
10479 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10480 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10481 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10482 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10483 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10484 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10485 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10486 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10487 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10489 o Minor features (geoip):
10490 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10493 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10494 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10495 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10496 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10497 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10499 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10500 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10501 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10502 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10503 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10505 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10506 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10507 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10508 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10509 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10512 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10513 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10514 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10515 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10516 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10517 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10518 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10519 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10520 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10521 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
10522 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
10525 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
10526 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10527 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10529 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10530 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10531 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10534 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10535 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10536 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10537 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10538 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10539 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10540 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10542 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10543 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
10544 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10545 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
10546 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
10547 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
10548 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
10549 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
10550 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
10553 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10554 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
10555 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
10556 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
10557 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
10558 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10560 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10561 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10562 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10563 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10565 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
10566 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10567 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10568 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10569 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10572 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10573 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10574 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10575 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10576 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10577 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10579 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10580 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10581 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10582 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10583 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10584 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10585 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10586 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10587 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10588 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10589 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10590 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10592 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10593 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10594 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10595 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10597 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10598 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10599 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10600 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10602 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10603 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10604 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10605 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10608 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
10609 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10610 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10611 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10612 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10614 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10615 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10617 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10618 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10620 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10621 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10622 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10625 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
10626 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10627 later Tor releases.
10629 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10630 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10632 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10633 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10635 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10638 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10639 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
10640 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10642 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10643 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10644 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10645 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10648 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
10649 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10650 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10651 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10652 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10653 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10654 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10655 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10656 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10657 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10658 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10659 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10660 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10662 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10663 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10664 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10665 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10666 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10667 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10668 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10669 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10670 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10672 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
10673 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10674 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10675 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10676 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10677 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10678 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10680 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
10681 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10682 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10683 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10685 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
10686 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10687 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10688 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10689 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10690 Closes ticket 24978.
10692 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10693 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10694 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10695 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10697 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
10698 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10699 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10700 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10701 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10702 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10703 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10704 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10705 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10707 o Minor features (geoip):
10708 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10711 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10712 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10713 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10715 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
10716 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10717 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10718 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10719 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10721 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
10722 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10723 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10724 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10725 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10727 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
10728 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10729 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10730 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10731 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10734 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10735 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10736 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10738 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10739 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10740 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10743 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10744 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10745 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10746 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10747 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10748 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10749 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10751 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
10752 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10753 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10754 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10755 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10758 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
10759 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10760 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10761 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10762 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10763 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10765 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
10766 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10767 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10768 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10770 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
10771 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10772 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10773 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10774 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10775 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10776 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10777 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10778 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10779 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10780 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10781 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10783 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
10784 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10785 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10786 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10789 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
10790 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10791 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10792 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10793 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10795 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10796 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10798 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10799 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10802 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
10803 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
10804 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
10807 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10808 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10810 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
10811 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
10812 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
10813 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
10814 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
10815 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
10818 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10819 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10821 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10824 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
10825 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
10826 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
10827 the DoS mitigations.)
10829 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10830 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10831 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10832 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10835 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10836 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
10837 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
10838 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10840 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10841 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10842 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10843 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10844 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10845 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10846 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10847 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10848 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10849 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10850 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10851 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10852 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10854 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10855 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10856 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10857 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10858 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10859 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10860 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10861 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
10862 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
10863 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
10864 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10866 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10867 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10868 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10870 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10871 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10872 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10873 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10874 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10875 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10876 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10878 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10879 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
10880 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
10881 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10883 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10884 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10885 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10886 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10888 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10889 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10890 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10891 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10892 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10893 Closes ticket 24978.
10895 o Minor features (geoip):
10896 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10899 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10900 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
10901 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
10904 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10905 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10906 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10907 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10908 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10910 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10911 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10912 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10913 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10914 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10915 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10916 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10918 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10919 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10920 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10921 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10922 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10924 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10925 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
10926 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
10927 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10929 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10930 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
10931 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
10932 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
10933 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10935 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10936 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10937 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10938 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10940 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10941 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10942 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10943 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10945 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10946 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10947 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10948 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10950 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10951 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10953 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10954 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10956 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10957 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
10958 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
10960 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10961 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
10962 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
10963 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
10964 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10966 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10967 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10968 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10970 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
10971 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
10972 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
10976 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
10977 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
10979 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
10980 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
10981 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
10982 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
10983 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
10984 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
10986 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
10987 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
10988 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
10989 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
10990 with the 0.2.9 series.
10992 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
10993 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10995 o Directory authority changes:
10996 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
10997 Closes ticket 23910.
10998 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
10999 Closes ticket 23592.
11000 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11001 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11002 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11003 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11004 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11007 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
11008 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
11009 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
11010 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
11011 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
11012 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
11015 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
11016 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
11018 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
11021 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
11024 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
11026 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
11028 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
11030 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
11031 they are 56 characters long, as in
11032 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
11034 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
11035 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
11036 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
11037 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
11038 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
11041 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
11042 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
11043 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
11044 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
11045 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
11046 options. For more information, see our blog post at
11047 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
11049 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
11050 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
11051 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
11052 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
11053 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
11054 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
11055 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
11056 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
11057 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
11058 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
11059 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
11060 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
11062 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
11063 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
11064 more information, see the design paper at
11065 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
11066 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
11067 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
11068 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
11070 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
11071 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11072 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11073 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11074 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11075 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11076 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11077 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11079 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
11080 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11081 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11082 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11085 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
11086 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11087 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11088 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11089 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11090 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11091 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11092 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11093 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11094 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11095 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11096 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11099 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
11100 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11101 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11102 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11103 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11104 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11105 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11106 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11107 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11109 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11110 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11111 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11112 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11113 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11114 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11115 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11116 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11117 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11118 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11119 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11122 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
11123 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
11124 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
11125 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
11126 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
11127 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
11128 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11130 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
11131 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11132 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11133 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11134 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11135 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11138 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
11139 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11140 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11141 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11143 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
11144 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
11145 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
11146 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
11148 o Minor features (bridge):
11149 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
11150 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
11151 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
11152 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
11153 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
11154 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
11155 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
11156 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
11157 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
11158 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
11159 related to ticket 23080.
11161 o Minor features (bug detection):
11162 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
11163 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
11164 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
11166 o Minor features (build, compilation):
11167 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
11168 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
11169 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
11170 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
11171 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
11172 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
11173 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
11174 Closes ticket 23643.
11176 o Minor features (client):
11177 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
11178 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
11179 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
11180 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
11181 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
11182 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
11183 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
11184 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
11185 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
11186 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
11187 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
11188 Resolves ticket 23670.
11190 o Minor features (command line):
11191 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
11192 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
11193 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
11195 o Minor features (control port):
11196 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
11197 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
11198 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
11200 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
11201 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
11203 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
11204 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
11205 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
11206 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
11207 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
11208 Closes ticket 23237.
11209 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
11210 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
11212 o Minor features (development support):
11213 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
11214 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
11215 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
11216 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
11217 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
11218 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
11220 o Minor features (directory authority):
11221 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
11222 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
11223 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
11224 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
11226 o Minor features (ed25519):
11227 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
11228 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
11229 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
11231 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
11232 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
11233 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
11235 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11236 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11237 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11238 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11239 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11240 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11241 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11242 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11243 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11245 o Minor features (geoip):
11246 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11249 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
11250 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
11251 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
11252 another program, regardless of the settings of
11253 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
11254 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
11255 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
11257 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11258 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11259 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11261 o Minor features (logging):
11262 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
11264 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
11265 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
11267 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
11268 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
11269 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
11270 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
11271 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
11272 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
11273 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
11274 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
11275 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
11276 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
11278 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
11279 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
11281 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
11282 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
11283 the circuit identifier(s).
11284 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
11285 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
11287 o Minor features (portability):
11288 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
11289 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
11291 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
11292 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
11293 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
11294 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
11296 o Minor features (relay):
11297 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
11298 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
11299 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
11300 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
11301 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
11302 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
11303 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
11304 results. Closes ticket 22731.
11306 o Minor features (relay statistics):
11307 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11308 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11309 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11311 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
11312 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
11313 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
11314 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
11315 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
11317 o Minor features (robustness):
11318 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
11319 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
11321 o Minor features (startup, safety):
11322 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
11323 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
11326 o Minor features (static analysis):
11327 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
11328 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
11331 o Minor features (testing):
11332 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
11333 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
11334 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
11335 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
11337 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
11338 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
11339 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
11340 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
11341 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
11343 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11344 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11345 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11346 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11347 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11350 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11351 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
11352 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
11355 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
11356 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
11357 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
11358 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
11359 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11360 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
11361 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
11362 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
11363 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11364 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
11365 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
11366 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
11367 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11369 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
11370 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
11371 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
11372 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11374 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
11375 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
11376 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
11377 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
11378 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
11379 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
11380 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
11381 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
11382 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11383 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11384 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11385 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
11386 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
11387 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11388 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
11389 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11390 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11392 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
11393 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
11394 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
11395 Coverity as CID 1415728.
11397 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11398 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
11399 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
11400 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11402 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
11403 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
11404 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
11405 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
11406 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
11407 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
11408 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
11409 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11411 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11412 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
11413 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
11414 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
11415 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11416 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
11417 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
11418 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11419 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
11420 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
11421 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
11422 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
11423 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
11424 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
11427 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
11428 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
11429 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
11432 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
11433 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
11434 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
11435 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
11437 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11438 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11439 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11442 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
11443 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
11444 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
11445 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11447 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
11448 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11449 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11450 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11451 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11452 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11453 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11454 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11455 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11458 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
11459 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
11460 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
11461 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
11462 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11464 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
11465 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
11466 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
11467 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
11468 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
11469 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
11471 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
11472 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
11475 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11476 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
11477 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11478 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
11479 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
11480 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11482 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
11483 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
11484 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
11485 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11487 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
11488 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11489 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11490 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11491 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11492 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11494 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
11495 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
11496 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
11497 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
11498 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
11499 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
11500 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
11503 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
11504 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
11505 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
11506 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11508 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11509 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
11510 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
11511 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
11512 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11513 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
11514 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
11515 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11516 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
11517 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
11519 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
11520 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
11521 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
11523 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
11524 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
11525 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
11527 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
11528 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11529 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
11530 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
11531 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
11532 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
11534 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
11535 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11536 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11537 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11538 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11539 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11541 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
11542 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
11543 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11545 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11546 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11547 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11548 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11549 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11552 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11553 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11554 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11555 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11556 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11557 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11559 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11560 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
11561 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
11562 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
11563 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11564 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11565 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11567 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
11568 only fetch the service descriptor once.
11569 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11570 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11571 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11572 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
11573 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
11574 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
11575 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
11577 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11578 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11579 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11580 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11581 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11582 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11583 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11584 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11585 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11586 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11587 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11588 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11590 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11591 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
11592 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11593 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11594 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11595 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11598 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11599 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
11600 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
11601 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
11602 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11603 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11604 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11605 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11606 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11607 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11608 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11609 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11611 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11612 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
11613 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11614 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
11615 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
11616 Closes ticket 24109.
11617 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
11618 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11619 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
11620 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
11622 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
11623 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
11625 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
11626 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
11627 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
11628 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
11629 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
11630 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
11631 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
11632 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11633 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
11634 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
11635 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11637 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
11638 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
11639 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
11640 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11642 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11643 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
11644 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
11646 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
11647 function from the general code to handle channel state
11648 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
11649 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
11650 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
11651 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
11652 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
11653 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
11654 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
11655 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
11657 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
11658 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
11660 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
11661 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
11662 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
11663 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
11664 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
11665 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
11666 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
11667 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
11668 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
11669 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
11670 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
11671 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
11673 o Deprecated features:
11674 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
11675 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
11676 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
11677 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
11678 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
11679 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
11683 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
11684 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
11685 section. Closes ticket 24254.
11686 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
11687 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
11688 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
11689 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
11690 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
11691 Closes ticket 18736.
11692 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
11693 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
11694 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
11695 Closes ticket 15645.
11696 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
11697 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
11698 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
11699 file. Closes ticket 21148.
11701 o Removed features:
11702 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
11703 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
11704 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
11705 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
11706 Closes ticket 21031.
11707 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
11708 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
11711 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
11712 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
11713 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
11714 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
11716 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11717 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11718 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11719 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11720 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11721 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11722 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11723 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11724 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11725 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11726 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11728 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11729 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11730 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11731 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11732 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11733 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11734 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11737 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11738 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11739 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11740 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11741 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11743 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11744 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11745 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11746 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11747 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11748 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11749 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11750 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11751 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11753 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11754 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11755 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11756 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11757 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11758 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11761 o Minor features (bridge):
11762 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11763 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11764 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11765 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11768 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11769 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11772 o Minor features (geoip):
11773 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11776 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11777 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11778 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11779 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11780 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11782 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11783 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11784 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11786 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11787 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11788 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11789 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11790 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11791 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11793 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11794 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11795 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11798 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11799 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11800 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11801 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11802 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11805 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
11806 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11807 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11808 to another of the releases coming out today.
11810 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
11811 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
11812 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
11814 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11815 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11816 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11817 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11818 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11819 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11820 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11821 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11822 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11823 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11824 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11826 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11827 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11828 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11829 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11830 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11831 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11832 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11835 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11836 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11837 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11838 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11839 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11841 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11842 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11843 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11844 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11845 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11846 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11847 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11848 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11849 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11851 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11852 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11853 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11854 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11855 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11856 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11859 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11860 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11861 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11862 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11863 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11864 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11866 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11867 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11868 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11869 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11870 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11873 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11874 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11877 o Minor features (geoip):
11878 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11881 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11882 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11883 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11884 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11885 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11887 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11888 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11889 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11891 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11892 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11893 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11894 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11895 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11896 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11898 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11899 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11900 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11901 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11902 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11904 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
11905 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
11906 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
11909 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
11910 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11911 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
11912 to another of the releases coming out today.
11914 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11915 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11916 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11917 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11918 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11919 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11922 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11923 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11924 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11925 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11926 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11927 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11928 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11929 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11930 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11931 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11932 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11934 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11935 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11936 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11937 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11938 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11939 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11940 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11943 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11944 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11945 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11946 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11947 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11949 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11950 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11951 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11952 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11953 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11954 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11956 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
11957 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
11958 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
11959 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
11960 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
11963 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11964 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11967 o Minor features (geoip):
11968 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
11971 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
11972 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
11973 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
11974 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
11975 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
11976 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
11978 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11979 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11980 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11981 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11982 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11984 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
11985 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11986 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11988 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
11989 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11990 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11991 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11992 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11993 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11995 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11996 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11997 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11998 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11999 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12001 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12002 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12003 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12006 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
12007 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12008 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12009 to another of the releases coming out today.
12011 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12012 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
12013 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12015 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12016 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12017 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12018 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12019 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12020 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12021 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12022 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12023 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12024 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12025 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12026 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12027 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12028 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12029 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12032 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12033 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12034 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12035 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12036 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12038 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12039 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
12040 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
12041 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
12042 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
12045 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12046 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12047 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12048 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12049 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12052 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12053 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12056 o Minor features (geoip):
12057 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12060 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12061 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12062 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12065 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
12066 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12067 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12068 to another of the releases coming out today.
12070 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12071 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12072 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12074 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12075 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12076 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12077 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12078 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12079 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12080 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12081 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12082 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12083 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12084 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12085 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12086 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12087 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12088 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12091 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12092 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12093 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12094 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12095 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12096 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12098 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12099 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12100 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12101 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12102 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12105 o Minor features (geoip):
12106 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12110 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
12111 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12112 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12114 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12115 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12116 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12118 o Directory authority changes:
12119 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12120 Closes ticket 23910.
12121 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12122 Closes ticket 23592.
12124 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12125 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12126 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12127 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12128 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12130 o Minor features (geoip):
12131 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12134 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12135 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12136 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12137 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12138 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12139 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12140 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12141 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12142 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12144 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12145 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12146 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12147 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12148 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12149 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12150 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12151 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12152 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12155 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
12156 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12157 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12158 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12160 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12161 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12162 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12164 o Directory authority changes:
12165 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12166 Closes ticket 23910.
12167 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12168 Closes ticket 23592.
12170 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12171 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12172 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12173 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12175 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12176 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12177 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12178 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12179 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12181 o Minor features (geoip):
12182 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12186 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
12187 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12188 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12189 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12191 o Directory authority changes:
12192 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12193 Closes ticket 23910.
12194 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12195 Closes ticket 23592.
12197 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12198 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12199 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12200 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12202 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12203 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12204 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12205 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12206 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12208 o Minor features (geoip):
12209 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12212 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12213 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12214 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12215 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12216 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12217 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12218 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12219 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12222 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12223 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12224 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12226 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12227 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12228 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12229 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12230 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12231 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12232 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12235 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
12236 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12237 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12238 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12240 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12241 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12242 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12244 o Directory authority changes:
12245 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12246 Closes ticket 23910.
12247 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12248 Closes ticket 23592.
12250 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12251 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12252 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12253 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12255 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12256 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12257 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12258 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12259 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12261 o Minor features (geoip):
12262 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12265 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12266 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12267 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12268 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12269 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12270 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12271 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12272 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12275 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12276 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12277 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12278 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12280 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12281 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12282 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12284 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12285 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12286 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12287 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12288 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12289 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12290 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12293 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
12294 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
12295 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
12296 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
12297 a new directory authority, Bastet.
12299 o Directory authority changes:
12300 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12301 Closes ticket 23910.
12302 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12303 Closes ticket 23592.
12305 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12306 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12307 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12308 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12310 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12311 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12312 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12313 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12314 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12316 o Minor features (geoip):
12317 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12320 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12321 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12322 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12323 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12325 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12326 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12327 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12330 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12331 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
12332 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
12334 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12335 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12336 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12337 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12339 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12340 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12341 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12343 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12344 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12345 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12349 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
12350 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12353 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12354 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12355 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12356 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12358 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12359 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
12360 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
12361 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
12363 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12364 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12365 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12366 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12367 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12370 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12373 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12374 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12375 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12378 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12379 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12380 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12381 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12382 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12383 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12384 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12385 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12386 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12388 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12389 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12390 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12391 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12392 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12393 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12394 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12395 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12396 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12399 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
12400 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12403 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12404 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12405 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12406 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12408 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12409 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
12410 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
12411 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
12412 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
12413 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
12414 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
12416 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12417 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12418 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12419 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12421 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12422 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
12423 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12425 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12426 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12427 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12428 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12430 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12431 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12432 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12433 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12434 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12436 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12437 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12438 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12439 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12441 o Minor features (geoip):
12442 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12445 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12446 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12447 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12448 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12450 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12451 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
12452 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12453 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
12454 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12455 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
12456 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
12457 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12459 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12460 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
12461 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12463 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12464 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12465 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12468 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12469 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12470 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12471 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
12472 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12474 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12475 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12476 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12477 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12478 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12479 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12481 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12482 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12483 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12484 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12485 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12486 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12487 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12488 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12489 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12491 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12492 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12493 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12494 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12496 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12497 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12498 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12500 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12501 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12502 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12503 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12504 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12506 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12507 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12508 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12511 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12512 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12513 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12514 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12515 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12517 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12518 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12519 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12520 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12521 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12522 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12523 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12524 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12525 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12528 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
12529 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
12532 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12533 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12534 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12535 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12537 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12538 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12539 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12540 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12543 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12546 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12547 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
12548 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12550 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12551 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12552 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12553 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
12554 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12556 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12557 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12558 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12559 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12561 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12562 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
12563 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
12565 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
12566 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
12567 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
12568 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12571 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
12572 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
12574 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
12575 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
12576 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
12577 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
12578 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
12579 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
12580 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
12582 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
12583 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
12584 disabled. For more information, see
12585 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12587 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
12588 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
12589 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
12590 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
12591 with the 0.2.9 series.
12593 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
12594 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
12596 o New dependencies:
12597 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
12598 pkg-config tool at build time.
12600 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
12601 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
12602 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
12603 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12604 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
12606 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
12607 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12608 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12609 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12610 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12611 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12612 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12613 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12614 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12616 o Major features (directory protocol):
12617 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
12618 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
12619 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
12620 now request these documents when available. When both client and
12621 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
12622 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
12623 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
12624 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
12625 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
12626 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
12627 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
12628 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
12629 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
12630 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
12631 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
12632 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
12633 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
12635 o Major features (experimental):
12636 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
12637 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
12638 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
12639 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
12640 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
12641 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
12642 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
12644 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
12645 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
12646 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
12647 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
12648 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
12649 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
12652 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
12653 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
12654 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
12655 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
12656 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
12657 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
12658 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
12659 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
12660 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
12661 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
12662 multiples of 10000.
12664 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12665 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
12666 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
12667 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12668 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12669 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12670 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12673 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
12674 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
12675 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
12676 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
12677 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
12678 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
12680 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
12681 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
12682 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
12683 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
12684 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
12685 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
12686 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
12687 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
12688 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12689 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
12690 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
12691 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
12692 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
12693 Otherwise it is at info.
12695 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
12696 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
12697 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
12698 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12699 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
12700 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
12701 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12703 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
12704 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12705 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12706 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12708 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
12709 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12710 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12711 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12712 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12714 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
12715 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
12716 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
12717 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
12718 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
12719 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
12720 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
12723 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
12724 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
12725 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
12726 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
12727 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
12728 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
12729 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
12730 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12731 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
12732 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
12733 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
12734 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
12735 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
12738 o Minor features (security, windows):
12739 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12740 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12741 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12742 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12743 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12745 o Minor features (bridge authority):
12746 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
12747 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
12749 o Minor features (code style):
12750 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12751 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12752 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12754 o Minor features (config options):
12755 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
12756 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
12757 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
12758 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
12759 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
12760 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
12761 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
12762 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
12764 o Minor features (controller):
12765 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
12766 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
12768 o Minor features (defaults):
12769 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
12770 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
12771 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
12772 can. Closes ticket 21407.
12773 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
12774 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
12775 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
12776 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
12777 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
12778 Closes ticket 21641.
12780 o Minor features (defensive programming):
12781 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
12782 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
12783 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
12786 o Minor features (diagnostic):
12787 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
12788 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
12789 attempt for bug 23105.
12790 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
12791 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
12792 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
12793 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
12794 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
12795 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
12796 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
12798 o Minor features (directory authority):
12799 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
12800 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
12801 Closes ticket 22348.
12803 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
12804 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
12805 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
12806 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
12807 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
12810 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
12811 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
12812 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
12813 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
12814 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
12815 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
12816 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
12818 o Minor features (geoip):
12819 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12822 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
12823 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
12824 introduction points than specified in
12825 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
12826 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
12827 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
12828 21594; closes ticket 21622.
12829 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
12830 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
12831 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
12832 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
12834 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12835 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
12836 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
12837 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
12838 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
12839 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
12840 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
12841 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
12842 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
12843 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
12845 o Minor features (logging):
12846 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
12847 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
12848 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
12849 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
12852 o Minor features (performance):
12853 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
12854 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
12856 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
12857 speed some controller functions.
12859 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
12860 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
12861 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
12862 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
12864 o Minor features (relay, performance):
12865 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
12866 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
12867 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
12868 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
12869 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
12872 o Minor features (safety):
12873 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
12874 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
12875 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
12878 o Minor features (testing):
12879 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
12881 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
12882 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
12883 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
12884 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
12885 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
12886 on. Closes ticket 21439.
12887 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
12888 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
12889 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
12890 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
12891 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
12892 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
12893 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
12894 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
12895 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
12896 21507. Partially implements 21470.
12898 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
12899 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12900 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12901 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12903 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12904 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
12905 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
12906 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
12909 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
12910 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
12911 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12912 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
12913 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12914 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
12915 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
12916 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
12919 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12920 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
12921 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12923 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12924 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
12925 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
12926 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
12927 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
12928 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
12930 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
12931 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
12932 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12934 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
12935 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
12936 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
12937 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
12938 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
12939 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
12940 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12941 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
12942 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
12943 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
12944 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
12945 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
12946 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
12947 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
12949 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12950 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12951 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12952 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
12953 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12954 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
12955 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12956 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
12957 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
12958 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
12959 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
12960 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12962 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12963 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
12964 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
12966 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
12967 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12968 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12969 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12970 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12971 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12973 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
12974 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
12975 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
12976 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
12977 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12978 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12979 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12980 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12981 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12982 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12983 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12984 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12986 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
12987 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12988 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12989 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12990 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12991 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12992 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12993 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12995 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
12996 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
12997 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12998 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
12999 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
13000 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
13002 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
13003 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
13004 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
13007 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
13008 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
13009 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
13010 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
13011 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
13013 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13014 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
13015 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13016 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
13017 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
13018 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13019 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
13020 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13021 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
13022 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
13023 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13025 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
13026 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13027 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13028 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13030 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13031 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
13032 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
13033 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
13034 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
13035 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
13036 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
13037 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
13038 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
13039 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
13040 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13041 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
13042 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
13043 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13045 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
13046 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13047 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13048 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13049 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13050 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13051 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13053 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13054 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13055 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13056 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13057 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13058 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13059 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13061 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13062 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
13063 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
13064 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13065 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
13066 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
13067 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13068 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
13069 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
13070 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
13071 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13072 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
13073 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
13075 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
13076 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
13077 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
13078 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13080 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13081 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13082 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13084 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13085 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13086 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13087 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13089 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13090 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
13091 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
13092 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13094 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13095 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
13096 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13097 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13098 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13099 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13100 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
13101 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
13102 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
13104 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
13105 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
13106 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
13107 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
13108 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
13109 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
13110 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
13113 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
13114 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
13115 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
13116 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
13117 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
13118 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
13120 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13121 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13122 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13123 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
13124 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
13125 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13126 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
13127 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13128 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
13129 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
13130 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
13131 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
13132 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13133 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13134 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
13135 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
13138 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
13139 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13140 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13141 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13142 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13144 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
13145 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13146 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13147 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13148 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13149 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13150 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13152 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
13153 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
13154 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13156 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13157 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
13158 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
13159 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
13160 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
13161 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
13162 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
13163 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
13164 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
13165 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
13166 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
13167 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
13169 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
13170 Resolves ticket 22213.
13171 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
13172 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
13173 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
13174 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
13175 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
13176 types. Closes ticket 21651.
13177 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
13178 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
13181 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
13183 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
13184 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
13186 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
13187 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
13188 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
13190 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
13192 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
13193 Closes ticket 21873.
13194 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
13195 Closes ticket 21151.
13196 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
13197 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
13199 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
13200 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13201 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
13202 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
13204 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
13205 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
13206 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
13207 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
13208 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
13209 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
13210 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
13211 default behavior is now unavailable.
13212 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
13213 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
13214 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
13215 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
13216 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
13217 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
13218 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
13220 o Removed features (tools):
13221 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
13222 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
13223 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
13224 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
13225 required. Closes ticket 21842.
13228 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
13229 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
13230 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
13231 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
13233 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13234 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13235 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13236 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13237 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13238 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13239 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13240 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13241 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13243 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13244 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13245 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13246 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13248 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13249 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13250 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13251 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13252 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13254 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13255 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13258 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13259 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13260 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13261 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13263 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13264 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13265 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13266 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13267 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13268 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13269 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13270 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13273 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13274 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13275 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13278 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13279 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13280 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13281 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13282 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13283 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13285 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13286 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13287 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13288 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13290 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13291 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13292 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13294 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
13295 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13296 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13299 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
13300 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
13301 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
13302 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
13303 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
13306 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
13309 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13310 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13311 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13312 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13313 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13314 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13316 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13317 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13318 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13319 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13321 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13322 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13323 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13324 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13326 o Minor features (geoip):
13327 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13330 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13331 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13332 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13333 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13334 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13336 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13337 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13338 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13339 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13340 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13342 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13343 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13344 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13345 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13346 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13347 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13348 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13349 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13350 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13353 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
13354 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
13355 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13356 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13357 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
13359 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
13360 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13361 bugfixes described below.
13363 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13364 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13365 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13366 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13367 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13368 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13369 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13370 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13373 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13374 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13375 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13376 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13377 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13378 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13379 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13382 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13383 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13384 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13385 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13386 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13387 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13388 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13389 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13390 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13391 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13392 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13393 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13394 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13397 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13398 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
13399 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
13402 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13403 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13404 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13405 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13406 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13408 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13409 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13410 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13412 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13413 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13414 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13416 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13417 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13418 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13419 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13420 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13421 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13422 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13424 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
13426 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13427 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13428 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13431 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
13432 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13433 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13434 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13435 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13436 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13438 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
13439 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13440 bugfixes described below.
13442 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13443 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13444 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13445 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13446 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13449 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13450 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13451 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13452 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13453 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13454 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13455 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13458 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13459 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13460 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13461 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13462 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13464 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13465 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
13466 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13467 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13468 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13469 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13470 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13472 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
13473 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
13474 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
13475 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
13476 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
13478 o Minor features (geoip):
13479 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13482 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
13483 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
13484 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
13485 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13487 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13488 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13489 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13491 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13492 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13493 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13494 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13495 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13498 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
13499 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13500 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13501 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13502 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13504 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
13505 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13506 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13507 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13508 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13509 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13511 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13512 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13513 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13514 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13517 o Minor features (geoip):
13518 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13521 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13522 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13523 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13524 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13525 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13527 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13528 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13529 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13531 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
13532 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13533 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13534 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13535 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13536 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13538 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13539 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13540 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13541 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13544 o Minor features (geoip):
13545 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13548 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13549 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13550 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13553 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
13554 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13555 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13556 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13557 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13558 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13560 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13561 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13562 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13563 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13566 o Minor features (geoip):
13567 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13570 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13571 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13572 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13574 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
13575 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13576 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13577 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13578 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13579 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13581 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13582 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13583 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13584 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13587 o Minor features (geoip):
13588 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13591 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13592 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13593 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13595 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
13596 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13597 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13598 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13599 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13600 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13602 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13603 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13604 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13605 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13608 o Minor features (geoip):
13609 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13612 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13613 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13614 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13617 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
13618 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
13619 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
13620 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
13621 clients are not affected.
13623 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
13624 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
13625 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
13626 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
13627 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
13628 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13631 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13634 o Minor features (future-proofing):
13635 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
13636 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13637 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13638 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13639 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13640 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13642 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13643 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13644 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13645 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13646 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13650 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
13651 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
13653 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
13654 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
13655 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
13656 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
13657 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
13658 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
13661 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
13662 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
13664 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
13665 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
13666 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
13667 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
13668 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
13670 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
13671 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13673 o Major features (directory authority, security):
13674 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
13675 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
13676 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
13678 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
13679 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
13680 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
13681 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
13682 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
13685 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
13686 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
13687 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
13688 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
13689 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
13690 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
13691 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
13692 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
13695 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
13696 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
13697 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
13698 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
13699 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
13700 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
13701 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
13702 15056; part of proposal 220.
13703 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
13704 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
13705 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
13706 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
13707 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
13708 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
13709 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
13710 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
13711 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
13714 o Major features (security):
13715 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13716 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13717 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13718 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13719 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13720 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13722 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
13723 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13724 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13725 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13726 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13727 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13728 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13729 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13730 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13731 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13732 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13734 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
13735 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13736 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13737 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13739 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
13740 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
13741 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
13742 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
13745 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
13746 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13747 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13749 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
13750 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
13751 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
13752 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
13753 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
13754 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
13755 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13757 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
13758 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
13759 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
13760 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
13761 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
13762 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
13763 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
13764 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
13765 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
13766 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
13767 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
13768 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
13769 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
13770 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
13771 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
13773 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
13774 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
13775 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
13776 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
13777 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13779 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
13780 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
13781 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
13782 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
13783 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
13784 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
13785 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13787 o Minor feature (client):
13788 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
13789 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
13791 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
13792 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
13793 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
13794 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
13796 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
13797 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
13798 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
13800 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
13801 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
13802 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
13803 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
13804 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
13806 o Minor features (controller):
13807 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
13808 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
13809 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
13810 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
13813 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
13814 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
13815 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
13816 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
13817 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
13818 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
13819 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
13820 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
13821 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
13822 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
13824 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
13825 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
13826 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
13829 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13830 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
13831 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
13833 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
13834 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
13835 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13837 o Minor features (directory authority):
13838 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
13839 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
13840 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
13841 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
13842 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
13844 o Minor features (directory cache):
13845 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
13846 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
13849 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
13850 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
13851 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
13852 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
13854 o Minor features (entry guards):
13855 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
13856 break regression tests.
13857 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
13858 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
13860 o Minor features (fallback directories):
13861 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
13862 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
13863 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
13864 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
13865 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
13866 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
13867 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
13868 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
13869 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
13870 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
13871 Closes ticket 20539.
13872 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
13873 Closes ticket 20822.
13874 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
13876 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
13877 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
13878 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
13879 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
13880 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
13882 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
13883 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
13884 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
13885 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
13886 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
13889 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
13890 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
13891 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
13892 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
13894 o Minor features (geoip):
13895 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13898 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
13899 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13902 o Minor features (infrastructure):
13903 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
13904 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
13906 o Minor features (linting):
13907 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
13908 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
13910 o Minor features (logging):
13911 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
13912 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
13914 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
13915 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
13916 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
13918 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
13919 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
13921 o Minor features (relay):
13922 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
13923 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
13924 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
13925 Written by Michael Sonntag.
13927 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
13928 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
13929 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
13932 o Minor features (testing):
13933 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
13934 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
13935 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
13937 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
13938 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
13939 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
13940 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
13941 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
13942 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
13943 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
13944 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
13945 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13947 o Minor bugfix (logging):
13948 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
13949 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
13950 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
13951 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
13954 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
13955 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
13956 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
13957 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
13959 o Minor bugfixes (build):
13960 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
13961 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
13964 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
13965 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
13966 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
13968 o Minor bugfixes (client):
13969 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
13970 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
13971 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13972 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
13973 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
13974 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
13976 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13977 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
13978 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
13980 o Minor bugfixes (config):
13981 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
13982 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
13983 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
13984 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13986 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13987 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
13988 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13989 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
13990 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
13991 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
13993 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
13994 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
13995 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
13996 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
13997 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
13998 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
13999 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
14002 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
14003 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
14004 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
14005 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
14006 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
14008 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
14009 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
14010 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
14011 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14013 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
14014 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
14015 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
14016 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
14017 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14019 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
14020 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
14021 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
14022 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
14023 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14025 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
14026 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
14027 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
14028 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14029 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
14030 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
14031 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
14034 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
14035 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
14036 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
14037 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
14038 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14039 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
14040 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
14041 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
14042 on all recent tor versions.
14044 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14045 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
14046 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
14048 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
14049 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
14050 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14052 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14053 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
14054 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
14055 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
14056 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14057 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
14058 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14059 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
14060 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14062 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14063 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
14064 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
14065 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
14066 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14067 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
14068 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
14069 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14070 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
14071 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
14072 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
14075 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14076 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
14077 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
14078 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14079 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
14080 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
14081 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
14082 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14083 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
14084 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
14085 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
14088 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
14089 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
14090 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14091 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
14092 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
14093 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
14094 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
14095 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
14097 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
14098 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
14099 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
14102 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14103 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
14104 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14106 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14107 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
14108 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
14109 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
14112 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
14113 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
14114 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
14115 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
14117 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
14118 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14120 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14121 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
14122 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
14124 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
14125 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
14126 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
14127 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
14129 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14130 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
14131 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
14132 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
14133 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14134 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
14135 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
14136 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14138 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
14139 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
14140 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
14141 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14142 Patch by "junglefowl".
14144 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14145 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
14146 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
14147 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
14148 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
14150 o Minor bugfixes (util):
14151 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
14152 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
14153 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
14154 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
14156 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
14157 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
14158 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
14161 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
14162 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
14163 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
14164 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
14166 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14167 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
14168 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
14169 Closes ticket 19858.
14170 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
14171 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
14172 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
14173 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
14174 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
14175 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
14176 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
14177 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
14178 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
14179 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
14180 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
14181 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
14182 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
14183 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
14184 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
14185 redundant with the similar structures used in the
14186 channel abstraction.
14187 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
14188 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
14189 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
14190 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
14191 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
14192 replaced with code automatically generated by the
14195 o Documentation (formatting):
14196 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
14197 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
14199 o Documentation (man page):
14200 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
14201 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
14204 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
14205 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
14207 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
14208 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
14209 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
14211 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
14212 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
14213 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
14214 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14215 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
14216 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
14217 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
14218 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
14219 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
14220 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
14222 o Removed features:
14223 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
14224 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
14225 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
14227 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
14228 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
14229 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
14232 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
14233 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
14234 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
14236 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
14237 from "overcaffeinated".
14238 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
14239 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
14242 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
14243 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
14244 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
14245 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14246 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
14249 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14250 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
14251 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14253 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14254 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14255 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14256 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14257 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14258 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14259 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14261 o Minor features (geoip):
14262 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14266 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
14267 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14268 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
14269 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14272 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14273 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14274 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14276 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14277 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14279 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14280 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14281 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14283 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14284 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14285 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14288 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14289 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14290 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14291 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14292 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14293 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14294 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14295 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14296 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14298 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14299 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14300 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14301 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14302 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14303 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14304 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14305 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14306 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14307 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14308 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14309 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14310 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14312 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14313 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14314 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14315 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14316 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14318 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14319 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14320 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14322 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14323 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14324 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14325 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14326 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14327 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14328 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14331 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14332 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14333 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14334 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14335 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14336 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14337 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14339 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14340 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14341 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14342 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14345 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14346 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14347 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14348 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14350 o Minor features (geoip):
14351 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14355 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
14356 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14357 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
14358 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14361 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14362 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14363 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14365 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14366 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14368 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14369 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14370 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14372 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14373 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14374 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14377 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14378 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14379 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14380 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14381 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14382 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14383 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14384 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14385 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14387 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14388 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14389 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14390 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14391 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14392 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14393 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14394 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14395 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14397 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14398 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14399 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14400 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14401 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14403 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14404 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14405 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14406 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14407 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14410 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14411 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14412 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14413 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14414 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14416 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14417 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14418 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14420 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14421 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14422 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14423 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14424 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14425 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14428 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14429 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14430 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14431 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14432 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14433 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14434 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14437 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14438 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14439 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14440 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14441 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14442 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14443 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14445 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14446 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14447 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14448 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14451 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14452 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14453 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14454 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14456 o Minor features (geoip):
14457 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14460 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14461 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14462 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14465 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
14466 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14467 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
14468 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14471 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14472 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
14473 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14475 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14476 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14478 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14479 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14480 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14482 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14483 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14484 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14487 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14488 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14489 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14490 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14491 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14492 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14493 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14494 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14495 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14497 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14498 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14499 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14500 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14501 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14502 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14503 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14504 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14505 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14507 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14508 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14509 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14510 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14511 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14513 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14514 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14515 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14516 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14517 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14520 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14521 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14522 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14523 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14524 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14526 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14527 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14528 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14530 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14531 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14532 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14533 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14534 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14535 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14538 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14539 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14540 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14541 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14542 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14543 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14544 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14547 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14548 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14549 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14550 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14551 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14552 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14553 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14555 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14556 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14557 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14558 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14561 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14562 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14563 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14564 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14566 o Minor features (geoip):
14567 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14570 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14571 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14572 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14574 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
14575 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
14576 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
14577 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
14578 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
14579 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
14581 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14582 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14583 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14587 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
14588 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14589 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
14590 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14593 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
14594 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14595 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14597 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14598 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14600 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14601 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14602 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14604 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14605 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14606 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14609 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14610 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14611 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14612 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14613 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14614 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14615 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14616 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14617 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14619 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14620 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14621 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14622 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14623 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14624 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14625 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14626 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14627 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14629 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14630 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14631 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14632 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14633 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14636 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14637 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14638 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14639 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14640 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14642 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14643 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14644 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14646 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14647 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14648 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14649 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14650 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14651 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14654 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14655 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14656 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14657 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14658 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14659 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14660 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14663 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14664 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14665 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14666 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14667 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14668 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14669 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14671 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14672 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14673 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14674 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14677 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14678 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14679 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14680 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14682 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14683 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
14684 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
14685 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
14687 o Minor features (geoip):
14688 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14691 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14692 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14693 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14695 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14696 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14697 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14701 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
14702 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
14703 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
14704 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
14706 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
14707 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
14708 least January of 2020.
14710 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14711 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14712 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14713 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14716 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14717 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14718 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14719 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14720 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14721 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14722 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14724 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14725 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14726 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14727 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14728 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14729 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14730 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14732 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14733 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14734 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14736 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14737 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14738 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14740 o Minor features (geoip):
14741 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14744 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14745 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14746 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14748 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14749 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14751 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14752 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14753 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14755 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14756 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
14757 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
14758 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14759 Patch by "junglefowl".
14762 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
14763 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
14764 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
14765 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
14766 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
14767 version should upgrade.
14769 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
14770 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
14772 o Major bugfixes (security):
14773 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14774 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
14775 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
14776 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
14777 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
14778 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14780 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
14781 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
14782 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
14783 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
14784 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
14785 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
14786 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
14787 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
14788 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
14789 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
14790 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14792 o Minor features (geoip):
14793 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14796 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14797 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
14798 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
14799 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
14801 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
14802 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14805 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
14806 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
14807 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
14808 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
14809 become available for their systems.
14811 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
14814 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
14815 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
14817 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
14818 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14819 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14820 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14821 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14822 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14823 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14824 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14825 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14827 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
14828 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
14829 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
14830 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
14831 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
14833 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
14834 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
14838 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
14839 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
14841 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
14842 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
14843 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
14844 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
14845 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
14846 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
14847 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
14848 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
14850 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
14852 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
14853 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
14854 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
14855 become available for their systems.
14857 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
14858 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
14860 o New system requirements:
14861 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
14862 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
14863 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
14864 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
14865 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
14866 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
14867 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
14868 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
14869 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
14870 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
14871 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
14873 o Deprecated features:
14874 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
14875 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
14876 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
14877 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
14878 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
14879 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
14880 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
14881 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
14882 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14883 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
14884 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14885 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
14886 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
14887 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
14888 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
14889 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
14890 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
14891 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
14892 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
14893 and TransListenAddress.
14895 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
14896 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14897 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14898 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14899 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14900 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14901 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14902 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14903 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14905 o Major features (build, hardening):
14906 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
14907 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
14908 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
14909 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
14910 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
14911 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
14912 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
14913 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
14914 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
14916 o Major features (circuit building, security):
14917 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
14918 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
14919 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
14921 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
14922 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
14924 o Major features (compilation):
14925 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
14926 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
14927 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
14928 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
14930 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
14931 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
14932 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
14934 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
14935 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
14936 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
14937 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
14938 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
14939 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
14940 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
14941 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
14943 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
14944 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
14945 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
14946 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
14947 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
14948 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
14949 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
14951 o Major features (resource management):
14952 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
14953 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
14954 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
14955 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
14956 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
14957 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
14959 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
14960 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
14961 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
14962 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
14963 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
14964 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
14965 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
14966 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
14967 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
14968 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
14969 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
14971 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
14972 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
14973 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
14974 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
14975 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
14976 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
14977 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
14978 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
14979 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
14980 part of proposal 264.
14982 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
14983 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
14984 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
14985 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
14987 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
14988 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
14989 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
14990 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
14991 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
14992 download, stop waiting for certificates.
14993 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
14994 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
14995 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
14997 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
14998 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
14999 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
15001 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
15002 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
15003 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
15004 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
15005 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
15006 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
15007 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15009 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15010 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
15011 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
15012 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
15013 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
15014 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
15015 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
15016 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
15017 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
15018 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15020 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
15021 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
15022 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
15023 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
15024 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
15025 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15027 o Minor features (port flags):
15028 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
15029 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
15030 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
15031 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
15032 18693; patch by "teor".
15034 o Minor features (build, hardening):
15035 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
15036 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
15037 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
15038 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
15039 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
15040 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
15041 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
15042 Closes ticket 18895.
15044 o Minor features (client, directory):
15045 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
15046 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
15047 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
15050 o Minor features (code safety):
15051 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
15052 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
15053 patch from "U+039b".
15055 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
15056 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
15059 o Minor features (config):
15060 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
15061 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
15063 o Minor features (controller):
15064 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
15065 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
15066 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
15067 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
15068 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
15069 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
15070 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
15071 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
15073 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
15074 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
15075 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
15078 o Minor features (directory authority):
15079 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
15080 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
15081 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
15082 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
15083 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
15084 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
15085 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
15086 Implements ticket 18624.
15087 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
15088 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
15089 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
15092 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15093 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15094 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15095 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15096 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15098 o Minor features (hidden service):
15099 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
15100 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
15101 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
15104 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
15105 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
15106 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
15107 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
15108 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
15109 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
15110 Closes ticket 18365.
15111 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
15112 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
15113 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
15114 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
15116 o Minor features (logging):
15117 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
15118 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
15119 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
15120 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
15121 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15122 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
15123 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
15124 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
15125 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
15126 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
15128 o Minor features (performance):
15129 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
15130 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
15131 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
15132 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
15133 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
15134 Closes ticket 18815.
15136 o Minor features (relay, usability):
15137 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
15138 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
15139 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
15140 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
15143 o Minor features (security, TLS):
15144 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
15145 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
15146 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
15147 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
15149 o Minor features (testing):
15150 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
15151 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
15152 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
15153 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
15154 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
15155 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
15156 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
15157 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
15158 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
15159 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
15161 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
15162 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
15163 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
15164 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
15165 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
15166 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
15167 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
15169 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
15170 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
15171 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
15172 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
15173 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
15174 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
15175 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
15176 assertion as a test failure.
15177 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
15179 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
15180 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
15181 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
15182 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
15183 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
15184 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
15185 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
15186 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
15187 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
15189 o Minor features (Tor2web):
15190 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
15191 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
15192 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
15194 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
15195 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
15196 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
15197 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
15198 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
15200 o Minor features (user interface):
15201 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
15202 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
15203 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
15204 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
15207 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
15208 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
15209 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
15210 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
15213 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
15214 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
15215 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
15216 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
15217 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
15218 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
15220 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15221 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
15222 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
15223 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15225 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
15226 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
15227 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
15228 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
15229 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
15231 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
15232 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
15233 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
15234 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
15235 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
15237 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
15238 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
15239 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
15240 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
15241 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15243 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
15244 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
15245 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15247 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
15248 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
15249 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15251 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
15252 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
15253 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
15256 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
15257 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
15258 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
15260 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15261 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
15262 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
15264 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
15265 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
15266 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15267 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
15268 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
15269 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
15270 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
15271 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
15273 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15274 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
15275 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
15276 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
15278 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15279 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
15280 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
15281 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15282 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
15283 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
15284 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
15285 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15286 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
15287 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
15289 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
15290 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
15291 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
15292 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15294 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
15295 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
15296 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
15297 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
15300 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
15301 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
15302 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
15303 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
15305 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
15306 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
15309 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15310 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
15311 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
15312 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
15314 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
15315 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
15317 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
15318 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
15319 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15320 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
15321 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
15323 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
15324 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
15325 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15327 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
15328 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
15329 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
15331 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15332 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
15333 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
15334 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
15335 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
15336 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15338 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15339 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
15340 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
15342 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
15343 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
15344 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
15345 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
15346 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
15347 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
15348 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
15350 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
15351 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
15352 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15353 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
15354 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15355 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
15356 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15357 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
15358 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
15359 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15360 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
15361 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
15362 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15363 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
15364 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
15367 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
15368 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
15369 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
15370 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
15371 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
15372 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
15374 o Minor bugfixes (options):
15375 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
15376 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
15378 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
15379 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
15380 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
15383 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15384 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
15385 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15386 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
15387 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
15388 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15390 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15391 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
15392 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
15393 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
15394 patch from "cypherpunks".
15395 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
15396 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
15397 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
15398 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15399 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
15400 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
15401 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
15402 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
15403 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15404 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
15405 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
15407 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
15408 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
15410 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
15411 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
15412 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15413 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
15414 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
15417 o Minor bugfixes (time):
15418 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
15419 bugfix on all released tor versions.
15420 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
15421 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
15422 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
15423 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
15425 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
15426 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
15427 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
15428 19678. Patch by teor.
15430 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
15431 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
15432 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
15433 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
15434 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
15436 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
15437 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15439 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15440 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
15442 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
15443 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15444 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
15445 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
15448 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
15449 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
15450 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
15451 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
15452 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
15453 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
15454 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
15455 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
15456 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
15457 tickets 19287 and 19290.
15458 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
15459 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15460 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
15461 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
15462 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15463 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
15464 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
15465 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
15467 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
15468 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
15469 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
15470 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
15473 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
15474 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
15476 o Removed features:
15477 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
15478 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
15479 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
15480 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
15481 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
15482 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
15483 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
15486 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
15487 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
15488 command-line options to enable them.
15489 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
15490 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
15493 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
15494 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
15495 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
15496 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
15499 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15500 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
15501 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
15502 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
15503 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
15504 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
15507 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15508 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
15509 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
15512 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
15513 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
15514 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
15515 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
15517 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15518 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
15519 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
15520 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15523 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15524 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
15525 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
15526 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15529 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
15530 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
15531 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
15534 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15535 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
15536 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15538 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15539 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
15540 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
15542 o Minor features (geoip):
15543 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15547 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
15548 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
15549 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
15550 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
15551 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
15554 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15555 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15556 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15557 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15558 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15559 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15560 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15561 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15562 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15564 o Minor features (geoip):
15565 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15569 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
15570 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
15571 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
15572 who select public relays as their bridges.
15574 o Major bugfixes (crash):
15575 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
15576 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
15577 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
15578 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
15579 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15581 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
15582 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
15583 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
15584 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
15585 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
15588 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
15589 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
15590 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
15592 o Minor features (geoip):
15593 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15597 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
15598 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
15599 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
15600 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
15601 encouraged to upgrade.
15603 o Directory authority changes:
15604 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15605 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15607 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
15608 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
15609 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
15610 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
15611 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
15612 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15614 o Minor features (geoip):
15615 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15618 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15619 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
15620 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
15623 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15624 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
15625 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
15626 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
15629 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
15631 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
15633 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
15634 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
15635 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
15636 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
15637 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
15638 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15640 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
15642 o New system requirements:
15643 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
15644 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
15645 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
15647 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
15648 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
15649 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
15650 longer runs with, these versions.
15651 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
15652 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
15653 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
15654 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
15655 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
15657 o Directory authority changes:
15658 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15659 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15661 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15663 o Major features (directory system):
15664 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
15665 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
15666 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
15667 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
15668 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
15669 gsathya, and karsten.
15670 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
15671 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
15672 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
15673 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
15674 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
15676 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
15677 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
15678 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
15679 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
15680 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
15681 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
15682 mikeperry and teor.
15684 o Major features (security, Linux):
15685 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
15686 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
15687 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
15688 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
15689 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
15691 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
15692 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
15693 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
15694 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
15695 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
15696 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
15697 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
15699 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
15700 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
15703 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
15704 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15705 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15707 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
15708 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
15709 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
15710 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
15711 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
15713 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
15714 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
15715 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
15716 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15717 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
15718 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
15719 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
15720 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
15721 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
15722 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15724 o Major bugfixes (key management):
15725 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15726 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15727 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15728 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15729 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15730 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15733 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
15734 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15735 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15736 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15737 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15739 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
15740 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
15741 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
15742 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
15743 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
15744 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
15745 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
15746 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
15747 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15749 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
15750 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15751 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15752 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15753 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15755 o Major bugfixes (testing):
15756 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
15757 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15759 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
15760 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
15761 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
15762 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15764 o Minor features (accounting):
15765 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
15766 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
15767 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
15768 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
15770 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
15771 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15772 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15773 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15774 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
15775 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
15776 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
15779 o Minor features (build):
15780 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
15781 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
15782 Steven Chamberlain.
15783 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
15784 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
15785 patch from "cypherpunks".
15786 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
15787 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
15788 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
15789 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
15790 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
15791 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
15792 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
15793 Patch from intrigeri.
15795 o Minor features (clients):
15796 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
15797 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
15798 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
15800 o Minor features (controller):
15801 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
15802 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
15803 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
15805 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
15806 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
15807 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
15808 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
15809 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
15811 o Minor features (crypto):
15812 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
15813 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
15815 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
15816 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
15817 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
15818 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
15819 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
15821 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
15822 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
15823 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
15824 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
15826 o Minor features (directory downloads):
15827 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
15828 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
15829 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
15830 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
15831 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
15832 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
15833 17864; patch by teor.
15835 o Minor features (geoip):
15836 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15839 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
15840 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
15841 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
15842 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
15843 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
15845 o Minor features (IPv6):
15846 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
15847 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
15848 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
15849 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
15850 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
15851 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
15852 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
15853 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
15854 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
15855 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
15856 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
15857 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
15859 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
15860 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
15861 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
15862 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
15863 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
15864 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
15865 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
15866 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
15867 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
15868 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
15870 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15871 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
15872 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
15873 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
15874 while fixing 18548.
15876 o Minor features (logging):
15877 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
15878 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
15879 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
15880 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
15883 o Minor features (portability):
15884 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
15885 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
15887 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
15888 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
15889 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
15890 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
15891 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
15893 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
15894 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
15895 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
15896 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
15897 Resolves ticket 17951.
15899 o Minor features (replay cache):
15900 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
15901 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
15903 o Minor features (robustness):
15904 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
15905 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
15906 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
15908 o Minor features (security, clock):
15909 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
15910 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
15911 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
15912 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
15914 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
15915 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
15916 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
15917 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
15918 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
15919 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
15921 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
15922 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15923 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15924 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15926 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
15927 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
15928 Implements ticket 17026.
15929 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
15930 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
15931 Implements feature 17986.
15932 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
15933 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
15934 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
15936 o Minor features (security, RNG):
15937 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
15938 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
15939 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
15940 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
15941 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
15942 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
15943 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
15944 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
15945 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
15946 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
15949 o Minor features (security, win32):
15950 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
15951 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
15954 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
15955 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
15956 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
15957 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
15958 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
15959 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
15960 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
15963 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
15964 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
15965 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
15966 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
15967 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15968 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
15969 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
15970 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
15971 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
15972 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
15973 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15974 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
15975 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
15976 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
15978 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
15979 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
15980 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
15981 from "unixninja92".
15983 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
15984 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
15985 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
15988 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
15989 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
15990 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
15992 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15993 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
15994 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
15995 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15996 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
15997 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
15999 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
16000 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
16002 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
16003 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
16004 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16005 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
16006 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
16008 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
16009 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16010 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
16011 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
16012 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16013 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
16015 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
16016 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
16017 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
16018 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
16019 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16020 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
16021 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
16022 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16023 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
16024 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16025 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
16027 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
16028 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
16031 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
16032 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
16033 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
16034 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
16035 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16037 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16038 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
16039 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
16040 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
16041 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
16042 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16043 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
16044 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
16046 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
16048 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
16049 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
16050 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
16052 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
16053 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
16054 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16056 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16057 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
16058 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16060 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
16061 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
16062 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
16063 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16065 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
16066 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
16067 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
16068 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
16069 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16071 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
16072 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
16073 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
16075 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
16076 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
16077 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
16078 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
16079 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
16080 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16081 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
16082 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
16083 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
16085 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
16086 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
16087 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
16088 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
16091 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
16092 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
16093 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
16094 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
16095 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
16097 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16098 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
16099 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
16100 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
16101 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
16102 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
16103 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
16104 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
16106 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
16107 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
16108 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
16109 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
16110 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
16111 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
16112 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
16113 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
16114 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
16117 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
16118 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
16119 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
16120 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16122 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
16123 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
16124 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
16126 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
16127 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
16128 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16130 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16131 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
16132 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
16133 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
16134 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16135 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
16136 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
16137 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16138 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
16139 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
16140 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16141 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
16142 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
16143 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16144 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
16145 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16146 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
16147 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
16148 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
16150 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16151 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
16152 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
16153 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
16154 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
16156 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
16157 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16158 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
16159 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
16160 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
16161 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
16162 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
16163 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
16164 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
16165 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16166 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
16167 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
16170 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
16171 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
16172 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
16173 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
16175 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
16176 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16177 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
16180 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
16181 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
16182 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
16183 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16185 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
16186 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
16187 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
16188 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
16189 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
16190 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
16193 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
16194 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
16195 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
16196 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
16198 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
16199 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
16200 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
16201 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
16202 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
16203 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
16204 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
16205 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
16206 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16208 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
16209 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
16210 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
16211 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
16212 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
16214 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
16215 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
16216 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
16217 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
16219 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16220 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
16221 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
16222 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16223 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
16224 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
16225 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
16226 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
16228 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
16229 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
16231 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
16232 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
16233 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
16236 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16237 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
16238 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
16239 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
16241 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
16242 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
16243 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16244 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
16245 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
16246 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
16247 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
16248 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
16249 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
16250 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
16251 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16252 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
16253 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
16254 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
16255 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
16256 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16258 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
16259 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
16260 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
16261 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
16262 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
16263 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
16264 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
16266 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
16267 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
16268 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
16269 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
16271 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16272 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
16273 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
16275 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
16276 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
16277 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
16278 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
16280 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
16281 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
16282 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
16283 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
16284 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
16285 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
16286 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
16287 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
16288 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
16289 17744. Patch from zerosion.
16290 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
16291 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
16292 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
16293 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
16294 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
16295 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
16296 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
16297 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
16298 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
16299 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
16300 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
16301 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
16305 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
16306 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
16307 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
16308 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
16309 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
16310 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
16311 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
16312 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
16313 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
16314 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
16315 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
16316 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
16318 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
16319 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
16321 o Removed features:
16322 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
16323 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
16324 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
16325 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
16326 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
16327 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
16328 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
16329 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
16332 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
16333 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
16334 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
16335 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
16336 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
16337 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
16338 portion of ticket 16831.
16339 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
16341 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
16342 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
16343 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
16344 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
16345 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
16347 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
16348 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
16349 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
16350 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
16353 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
16354 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
16355 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
16357 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
16358 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16359 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16360 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16361 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16362 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16365 o Minor features (geoip):
16366 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16369 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16370 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
16371 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
16372 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
16373 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16374 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16376 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16377 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
16378 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
16379 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
16380 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
16381 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
16382 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
16383 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16384 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
16385 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16388 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
16389 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
16390 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
16391 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
16392 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
16393 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
16394 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
16395 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
16396 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
16397 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
16398 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
16399 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
16400 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
16401 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
16402 that would make him proud.
16404 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
16406 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
16407 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
16408 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
16409 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
16410 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
16411 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
16412 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
16414 o New system requirements:
16415 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
16416 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
16418 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
16419 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
16420 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
16421 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
16422 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
16423 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
16424 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
16425 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
16426 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
16427 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
16428 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
16429 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
16430 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
16432 o Major features (controller):
16433 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
16434 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
16436 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
16437 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
16438 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
16439 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
16440 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
16441 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
16442 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
16444 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
16445 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
16446 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
16447 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
16448 key). Closes ticket 13642.
16449 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
16450 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
16451 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
16452 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
16453 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
16454 Implements part of ticket 12498.
16455 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
16456 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16457 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
16458 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
16459 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16460 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
16461 part of ticket 12498.
16462 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
16463 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
16465 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
16466 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
16467 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
16468 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
16469 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
16470 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
16471 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
16472 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
16473 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
16476 o Major features (ECC performance):
16477 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
16478 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
16480 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
16481 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
16482 available. Implements ticket 16535.
16483 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
16484 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
16485 Implements ticket 16467.
16486 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
16487 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
16488 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
16489 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
16491 o Major features (Hidden services):
16492 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
16493 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
16494 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
16495 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
16496 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
16497 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
16498 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
16499 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
16500 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
16501 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
16502 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
16503 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
16505 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
16506 introduction points, which used to change the number of
16507 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
16508 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
16510 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
16511 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
16512 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
16513 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
16514 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
16515 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
16517 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
16518 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
16519 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
16520 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
16521 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
16522 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
16524 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16525 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
16526 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
16527 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
16528 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
16529 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
16530 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
16531 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
16534 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16535 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
16536 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
16537 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
16539 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
16540 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
16541 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
16542 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
16543 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
16544 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
16547 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
16548 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
16549 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
16551 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
16552 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
16553 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
16554 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
16555 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
16556 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
16558 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
16559 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16560 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16561 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16562 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16565 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16566 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
16567 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
16568 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
16569 by "cypherpunks_backup".
16570 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
16571 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
16572 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
16575 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
16576 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
16577 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
16578 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
16580 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
16581 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
16582 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
16583 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16584 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
16585 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
16586 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
16589 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
16590 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
16591 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
16592 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
16593 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
16594 own. Implements feature 15482.
16595 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
16596 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
16598 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
16599 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
16600 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
16601 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
16602 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
16604 o Minor features (command-line interface):
16605 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
16606 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16607 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
16608 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
16610 o Minor features (compilation):
16611 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
16612 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
16613 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
16614 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
16615 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
16617 o Minor features (control protocol):
16618 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
16619 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
16621 o Minor features (controller):
16622 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
16623 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
16624 present. Implements ticket 14840.
16625 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
16626 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
16627 Closes ticket 14845.
16628 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
16629 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
16630 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
16632 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16633 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
16634 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
16635 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
16636 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
16637 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
16639 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
16640 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
16641 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
16642 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
16643 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
16644 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
16645 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
16647 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
16648 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
16649 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
16650 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
16652 o Minor features (geoip):
16653 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16656 o Minor features (hidden services):
16657 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
16658 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
16659 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
16660 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
16662 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
16663 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
16664 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
16666 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
16667 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
16668 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
16669 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
16670 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
16671 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
16672 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
16673 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
16675 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
16676 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
16677 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
16678 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
16679 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
16680 Closes ticket 15745.
16682 o Minor features (logging):
16683 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
16684 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
16687 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
16688 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
16689 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
16690 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
16692 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
16693 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
16694 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
16695 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
16696 Resolves ticket 15435.
16698 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
16699 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
16700 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
16701 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16702 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
16703 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
16704 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
16705 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16706 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
16707 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
16708 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
16709 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
16710 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
16711 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
16712 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
16713 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
16714 Related to ticket 16069.
16716 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
16717 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
16718 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
16720 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
16721 stderr, not stdout.
16722 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
16723 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
16724 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
16727 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16728 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
16729 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
16730 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
16731 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
16733 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
16734 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
16735 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
16736 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
16738 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
16739 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
16740 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
16741 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
16742 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
16743 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
16744 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
16745 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16747 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16748 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
16749 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
16750 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16752 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16753 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
16754 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
16756 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
16757 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
16758 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
16760 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
16761 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
16762 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
16763 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16765 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
16766 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
16767 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
16768 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
16769 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
16770 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
16772 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16773 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
16774 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
16776 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
16777 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16779 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16780 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
16781 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16782 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
16783 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16784 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
16785 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
16786 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
16788 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
16789 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
16790 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
16791 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
16793 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
16794 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
16795 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
16797 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
16798 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
16799 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
16802 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16803 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
16804 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
16805 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
16806 recent enough Clang.
16808 o Minor bugfixes (network):
16809 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
16810 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
16811 unsuitable for public communications.
16813 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
16814 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
16815 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
16816 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
16818 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16819 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
16820 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16821 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
16822 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
16824 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
16825 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
16827 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16828 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
16829 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
16830 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
16831 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
16833 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
16834 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
16835 from "cypherpunks".
16836 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
16837 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
16840 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
16841 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
16842 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
16843 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
16844 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
16846 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16847 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
16848 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
16849 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
16850 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
16851 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
16853 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
16854 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
16855 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
16856 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16858 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
16859 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
16860 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
16861 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
16862 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
16863 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
16864 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
16865 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
16867 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
16868 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
16869 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
16871 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16872 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
16873 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
16874 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
16875 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
16876 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
16877 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
16878 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
16879 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
16880 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
16881 function. Closes ticket 16763.
16882 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
16883 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
16885 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
16886 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
16887 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
16888 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
16889 haven't supported that in ages.
16890 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
16891 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
16892 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
16893 suite of other microdesc functions.
16894 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
16895 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
16896 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
16897 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
16898 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
16899 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
16900 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
16901 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
16902 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
16903 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
16904 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
16905 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
16906 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
16907 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
16908 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
16909 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
16911 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
16912 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
16916 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
16917 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
16918 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
16920 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
16921 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16922 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
16923 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
16924 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
16925 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
16926 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
16927 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
16928 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
16929 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
16931 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
16933 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
16934 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
16935 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
16936 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
16937 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
16938 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
16939 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
16940 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
16941 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
16942 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
16943 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
16944 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
16945 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
16947 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
16948 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
16951 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
16952 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
16953 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
16954 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
16955 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
16956 Closes ticket 14922.
16957 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
16958 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
16959 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
16960 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
16961 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
16962 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
16963 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
16964 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
16965 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
16966 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
16967 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
16968 Closes ticket 13338.
16970 o Removed features:
16971 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
16972 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
16973 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
16974 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
16975 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
16976 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
16977 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
16978 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
16979 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
16980 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
16981 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
16982 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
16983 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
16984 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
16985 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
16988 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
16989 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
16990 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
16991 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
16992 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
16993 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
16994 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
16995 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
16996 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
16997 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
16998 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
17000 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
17001 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
17002 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
17003 Closes ticket 15817.
17004 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
17005 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
17006 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
17007 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
17008 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
17009 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
17010 network before we begin.
17011 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
17012 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
17013 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
17014 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
17015 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
17016 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
17018 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
17019 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
17021 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
17022 default as a part of "make check".
17023 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
17024 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
17025 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
17026 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
17027 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
17028 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
17029 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
17030 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
17031 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
17032 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
17033 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
17034 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
17035 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
17036 files. Closes ticket 15180.
17037 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
17038 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
17039 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
17040 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
17041 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
17042 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
17043 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
17044 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
17045 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
17046 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
17047 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
17048 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
17049 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
17050 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
17051 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
17052 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
17053 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
17055 - Set the severity correctly when testing
17056 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
17057 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
17058 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
17059 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
17061 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
17062 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
17063 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
17064 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
17065 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
17066 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
17068 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
17069 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17070 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17071 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17072 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17073 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17074 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17075 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17078 o Major bugfixes (stability):
17079 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17080 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17081 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17082 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17083 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17084 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17085 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17088 o Minor features (geoip):
17089 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17090 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17092 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
17093 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17094 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17095 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17096 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17097 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17099 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17100 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17101 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17102 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17105 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
17106 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
17107 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
17108 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
17109 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
17111 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
17112 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17113 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
17114 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
17115 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17118 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
17119 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17120 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17121 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17122 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
17123 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
17124 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17126 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17127 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17128 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17129 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17131 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17132 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
17133 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
17134 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
17135 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17136 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17139 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
17140 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17141 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17144 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
17145 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
17146 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
17147 authorities should upgrade.
17149 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17150 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17151 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17152 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17155 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17156 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17157 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17160 o Minor features (geoip):
17161 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17162 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17166 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
17167 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
17168 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
17169 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
17170 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17172 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
17173 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17175 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17176 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17177 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17178 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17179 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17180 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17181 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17183 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17184 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17185 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17186 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17187 Resolves ticket 15515.
17188 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
17189 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
17190 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
17194 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
17195 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
17196 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
17197 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
17198 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17200 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
17201 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17203 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17204 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17205 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17206 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17207 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17208 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17209 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17211 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17212 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17213 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17214 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17215 Resolves ticket 15515.
17218 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
17219 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
17220 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
17221 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
17222 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17224 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
17225 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17227 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17228 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17229 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17230 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17231 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17232 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17233 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17235 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17236 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17237 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17238 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17239 Resolves ticket 15515.
17242 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
17243 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
17245 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
17246 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
17247 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
17248 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
17249 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
17250 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
17251 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
17252 bugs should be addressed.
17254 o New compiler and system requirements:
17255 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
17256 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
17257 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
17258 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
17260 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
17261 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
17262 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
17263 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
17264 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
17265 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
17266 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
17267 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
17268 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
17270 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
17271 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
17272 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
17273 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
17274 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
17275 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
17276 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
17278 o Directory authority changes:
17279 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17280 closes ticket 14487.
17281 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17282 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17283 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17285 o Major features (bridges):
17286 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
17287 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
17288 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
17291 o Major features (changed defaults):
17292 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
17293 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
17294 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
17295 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
17296 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
17297 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
17299 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
17300 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
17301 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
17302 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
17305 o Major features (directory system):
17306 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
17307 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
17308 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
17309 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
17310 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
17311 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
17312 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
17313 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
17314 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
17315 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
17316 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
17317 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
17318 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
17319 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
17320 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
17321 227. Closes ticket 10395.
17323 o Major features (guards):
17324 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
17325 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
17326 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
17327 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
17328 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
17330 o Major features (hidden services):
17331 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
17332 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
17333 Closes ticket 13667.
17334 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
17335 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
17336 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
17337 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
17338 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
17339 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
17340 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
17341 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
17342 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
17343 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
17344 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
17346 o Major features (performance):
17347 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
17348 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
17349 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
17350 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
17351 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
17352 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
17353 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
17354 Implements ticket 9682.
17356 o Major features (relay):
17357 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
17358 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
17359 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
17360 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
17361 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
17362 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
17363 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
17364 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
17366 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
17367 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
17368 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
17369 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
17370 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
17371 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
17372 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
17375 o Major features (sample torrc):
17376 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
17377 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
17378 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
17379 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
17380 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
17381 generally useful "sample torrc".
17383 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
17384 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
17385 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
17386 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
17387 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
17388 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
17390 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
17391 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
17392 Implements ticket 11485.
17394 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
17395 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
17396 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
17397 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
17398 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
17399 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
17402 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
17403 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
17404 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
17407 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17408 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
17409 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17411 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
17412 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
17413 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
17414 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
17415 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17417 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17418 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17419 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17420 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17422 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
17423 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
17424 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
17427 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17428 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
17429 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
17430 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
17431 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
17432 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
17434 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17435 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
17436 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
17437 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
17439 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
17440 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
17441 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
17442 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
17443 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
17444 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
17445 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
17447 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17448 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
17449 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
17450 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
17451 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
17452 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17454 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
17455 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17456 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
17457 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17458 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17459 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17460 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17461 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17463 o Minor features (build):
17464 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
17465 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
17466 Resolves ticket 13037.
17468 o Minor features (client):
17469 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
17470 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
17471 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
17472 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
17474 o Minor features (client):
17475 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
17476 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
17477 Resolves ticket 13315.
17479 o Minor features (controller):
17480 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
17481 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
17483 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
17484 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
17486 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
17487 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
17488 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
17489 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
17490 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
17491 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
17492 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
17493 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
17494 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
17496 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
17497 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
17498 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
17499 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
17500 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
17501 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
17502 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
17503 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
17504 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
17505 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
17507 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17508 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
17509 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
17510 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
17511 argument more than once.
17512 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
17513 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
17514 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
17515 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
17516 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
17517 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
17519 o Minor features (geoip):
17520 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17521 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17524 o Minor features (guard nodes):
17525 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
17526 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
17527 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
17529 o Minor features (heartbeat):
17530 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
17531 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
17532 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
17533 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
17535 o Minor features (hidden service):
17536 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
17537 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
17538 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
17539 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
17540 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
17541 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
17542 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
17543 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
17544 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
17545 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
17546 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
17547 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
17548 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
17549 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
17551 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
17552 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
17553 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
17555 o Minor features (interface):
17556 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
17557 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
17558 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
17560 o Minor features (logging):
17561 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
17562 Resolves ticket 6852.
17563 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
17564 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
17565 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
17567 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
17568 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
17569 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
17570 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
17571 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
17572 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
17573 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
17574 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
17575 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
17576 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
17577 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
17578 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
17581 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
17582 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
17583 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
17584 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
17586 o Minor features (relay):
17587 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
17588 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
17589 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
17591 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
17592 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
17593 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
17594 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
17595 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
17596 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
17597 document. Implements feature 10427.
17599 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
17600 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
17601 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
17602 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
17604 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
17605 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
17606 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
17607 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
17608 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
17609 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
17611 o Minor features (stability):
17612 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
17613 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
17616 o Minor features (systemd):
17617 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
17618 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
17619 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
17620 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17621 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
17622 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17624 o Minor features (testing networks):
17625 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
17626 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
17627 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
17628 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
17629 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
17631 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
17632 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
17633 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
17634 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
17635 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
17636 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
17638 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
17639 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
17640 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
17641 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
17642 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
17644 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
17645 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
17646 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
17647 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
17648 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
17650 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
17651 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
17652 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
17653 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
17654 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
17657 o Minor features (validation):
17658 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
17659 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
17660 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
17661 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
17662 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
17663 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
17664 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
17665 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
17666 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
17667 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
17668 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
17671 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
17672 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
17673 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
17674 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17676 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
17677 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
17678 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
17679 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17681 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
17682 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
17683 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
17685 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
17686 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
17687 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
17689 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
17690 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17691 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
17692 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
17693 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17694 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
17695 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17697 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
17698 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
17699 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
17700 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17701 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
17702 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
17703 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
17704 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
17705 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
17707 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17708 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
17709 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
17710 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
17711 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
17712 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17713 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
17714 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
17715 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
17717 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
17718 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
17719 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
17720 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17721 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
17722 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17723 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
17724 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
17726 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
17727 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
17728 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
17731 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
17732 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
17733 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
17734 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
17735 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
17737 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
17738 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
17739 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
17740 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17741 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
17742 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
17743 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
17744 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17746 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
17747 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
17748 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
17749 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
17750 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17752 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
17753 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
17754 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
17755 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
17756 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
17758 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
17759 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
17760 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17762 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
17763 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
17764 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
17765 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
17766 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
17768 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
17769 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
17770 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
17772 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17773 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
17775 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
17776 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
17777 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
17778 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
17780 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
17781 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
17783 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
17784 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
17785 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
17786 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
17787 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
17788 Addresses ticket 14188.
17789 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
17790 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
17791 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
17792 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
17793 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
17794 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
17795 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
17796 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17797 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
17798 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
17799 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
17802 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17803 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
17804 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
17805 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
17806 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
17807 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17809 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17810 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
17811 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
17812 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
17813 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
17815 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17816 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
17817 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
17818 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
17819 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
17820 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
17821 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
17822 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17823 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
17824 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17825 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
17826 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
17827 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17828 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
17829 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
17830 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17832 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
17833 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
17834 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
17835 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17836 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
17837 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
17838 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
17839 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
17842 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
17843 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
17844 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
17845 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
17846 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
17847 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
17848 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
17849 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
17850 state, and key files.
17851 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
17852 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
17855 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17856 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
17857 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
17858 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
17859 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17860 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
17861 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
17862 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17863 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
17864 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
17865 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
17866 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
17867 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
17868 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
17869 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
17870 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
17871 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
17872 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
17875 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17876 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
17877 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
17878 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
17879 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
17880 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
17881 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
17882 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
17883 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
17884 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17886 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17887 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
17888 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17889 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
17890 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
17891 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
17893 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
17894 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
17896 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
17897 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
17898 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
17899 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
17900 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17902 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
17903 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
17904 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
17905 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
17906 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
17907 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17909 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17910 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
17911 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
17913 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
17914 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
17915 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
17917 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
17918 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
17919 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
17920 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
17921 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
17923 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
17924 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
17925 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
17928 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17929 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
17930 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
17931 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
17932 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
17935 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
17936 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
17937 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
17938 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
17941 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
17942 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
17943 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
17946 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17947 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
17948 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17950 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
17951 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
17952 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
17953 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
17954 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
17957 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
17958 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
17959 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17960 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
17961 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
17962 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
17964 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
17965 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
17966 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
17967 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
17968 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
17969 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
17971 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
17972 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
17973 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
17974 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
17975 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17976 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
17977 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
17978 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
17979 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
17980 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
17981 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
17982 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
17983 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
17984 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
17985 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
17986 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
17987 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
17988 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
17989 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
17990 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17991 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
17992 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
17993 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
17994 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
17995 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
17996 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
17997 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
17998 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17999 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
18000 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
18001 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
18002 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
18004 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
18005 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
18006 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
18007 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
18008 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18010 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18011 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
18012 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
18013 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
18014 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
18015 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18016 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
18017 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
18018 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18020 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
18021 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
18022 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
18024 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
18025 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
18026 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
18029 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
18030 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
18031 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
18032 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
18035 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
18036 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
18037 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18039 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18040 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
18041 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
18043 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
18044 Resolves ticket 12205.
18045 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
18046 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
18047 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
18048 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
18050 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
18051 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
18052 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
18054 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
18055 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
18057 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
18058 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
18059 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
18060 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
18061 or_options_t structure.
18062 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
18063 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
18064 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
18065 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
18066 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
18067 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
18068 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
18069 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
18071 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
18072 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
18074 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
18076 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
18077 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
18078 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
18079 with a function instead.
18080 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
18081 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
18082 Closes ticket 13172.
18083 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
18084 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
18085 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
18086 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
18087 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
18088 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
18089 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
18090 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
18091 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
18092 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
18093 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
18094 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
18098 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
18099 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
18100 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
18101 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
18103 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
18104 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
18105 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
18106 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18107 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
18108 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18109 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
18110 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
18111 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
18112 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
18113 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
18114 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
18115 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
18116 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
18117 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
18118 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
18119 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
18120 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
18122 o Distribution (systemd):
18123 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
18124 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
18125 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
18126 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
18127 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18129 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
18130 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
18132 o Downgraded warnings:
18133 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
18134 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
18137 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
18138 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
18139 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
18142 o Removed features (directory authorities):
18143 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
18144 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
18145 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
18146 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
18147 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
18148 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
18149 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
18150 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
18151 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
18153 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
18154 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
18155 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
18156 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
18159 o Removed features:
18160 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
18161 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
18162 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
18163 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
18164 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
18166 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
18167 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
18168 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
18169 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
18170 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
18171 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
18172 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
18173 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
18174 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
18176 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
18177 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
18179 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
18180 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
18181 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
18182 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
18183 anymore, and ignore it.
18185 o Removed platform support:
18186 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
18187 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
18188 Closes ticket 11446.
18190 o Testing (test-network.sh):
18191 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
18192 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
18194 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
18196 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
18197 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
18198 Partially implements ticket 13161.
18201 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
18202 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
18203 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
18204 (existing behavior).
18205 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
18206 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
18207 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
18208 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
18209 Closes ticket 14107.
18210 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
18211 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18212 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
18213 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
18215 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
18216 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
18217 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
18218 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
18219 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
18220 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
18222 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
18224 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
18225 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
18226 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
18227 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
18228 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
18229 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
18230 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
18231 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
18232 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
18233 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
18234 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
18235 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
18237 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
18238 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
18239 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
18241 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
18242 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
18244 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
18245 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
18246 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
18248 o Directory authority changes:
18249 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18250 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18251 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18252 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18253 closes ticket 14487.
18255 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
18256 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
18257 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
18260 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18261 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18262 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
18263 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18264 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
18265 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18266 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18267 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18269 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
18270 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18271 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18272 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18274 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18275 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18276 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18277 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18279 o Minor features (controller):
18280 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18281 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18282 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18284 o Minor features (geoip):
18285 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18286 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18289 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18290 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18291 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18292 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18293 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18294 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18296 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18297 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18298 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18299 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18301 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18302 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18303 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18304 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18305 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18306 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18307 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18308 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18310 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18311 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18312 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18314 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18315 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18316 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18317 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18318 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18322 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
18323 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
18324 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
18327 o Directory authority changes:
18328 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18329 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18330 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18331 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18332 closes ticket 14487.
18334 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
18335 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18336 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18337 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18339 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
18340 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18341 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
18342 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18343 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
18344 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18345 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18346 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18348 o Minor features (geoip):
18349 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18350 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18353 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
18354 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
18356 It adds several new security features, including improved
18357 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
18358 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
18359 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
18360 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
18361 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
18362 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
18363 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
18364 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
18365 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
18366 and features mentioned below.
18368 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
18369 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
18371 o Major features (security):
18372 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
18373 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
18374 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
18375 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
18376 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
18377 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
18378 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
18379 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
18380 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
18381 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
18383 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
18384 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
18385 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
18386 streams attached to each circuit.
18388 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
18389 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
18390 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
18391 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
18392 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
18393 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
18394 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
18395 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
18396 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
18397 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
18398 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
18399 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
18400 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
18402 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
18403 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
18404 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
18405 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
18407 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
18408 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
18409 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
18410 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
18411 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
18412 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
18414 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
18415 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
18416 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
18417 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
18418 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
18419 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
18420 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
18421 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
18424 o Major features (controller):
18425 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
18426 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
18427 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
18428 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
18429 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
18430 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
18432 o Major features (relay performance):
18433 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
18434 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
18435 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
18436 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
18437 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
18438 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
18439 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
18440 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
18441 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
18442 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
18444 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
18445 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
18446 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
18447 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
18448 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
18449 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
18450 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
18451 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
18452 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
18453 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
18455 o Major features (testing networks):
18456 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
18457 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
18458 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
18459 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
18460 Implements ticket 8530.
18462 o Major features (other):
18463 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
18464 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
18465 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
18466 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
18467 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
18468 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
18470 o Deprecated versions:
18471 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
18472 attention for some while.
18474 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
18475 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
18476 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
18478 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
18479 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
18480 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
18481 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
18482 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
18483 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
18484 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
18485 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
18486 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
18487 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
18488 router's identity is not forgeable.
18490 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
18491 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
18492 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
18493 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
18495 o Major bugfixes (client):
18496 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
18497 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
18498 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
18499 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
18500 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
18501 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
18502 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
18503 to build circuits".
18505 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
18506 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
18507 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
18508 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
18511 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
18512 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
18513 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
18514 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
18515 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
18516 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
18517 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18519 o Major bugfixes (relay):
18520 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
18521 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18522 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18523 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
18524 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
18525 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
18526 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18527 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
18528 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
18529 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
18530 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
18531 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
18532 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
18533 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
18534 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
18535 bugfix on every version of Tor.
18537 o Minor features (security):
18538 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
18539 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
18540 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
18541 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
18543 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
18544 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
18545 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
18546 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
18547 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
18548 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
18549 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
18551 o Minor features (security, memory management):
18552 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
18553 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
18554 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
18555 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
18556 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
18557 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
18559 o Minor features (bridge client):
18560 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
18561 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
18562 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
18564 o Minor features (bridge):
18565 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
18566 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
18568 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
18569 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
18570 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
18571 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
18572 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
18573 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
18574 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
18575 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
18576 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
18577 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
18578 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
18579 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
18580 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
18581 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
18582 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
18584 o Minor features (build):
18585 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
18586 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
18587 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
18588 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
18589 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
18590 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
18591 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
18592 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
18593 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
18594 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
18595 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
18596 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
18597 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
18598 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
18599 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
18602 o Minor features (client):
18603 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
18604 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
18605 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
18606 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
18608 o Minor features (config options and command line):
18609 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
18610 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
18611 Implements ticket 10060.
18612 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
18613 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
18614 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
18616 o Minor features (config options):
18617 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
18618 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
18619 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
18620 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
18621 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
18622 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
18623 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
18624 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
18625 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
18626 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
18627 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
18628 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
18629 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
18630 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
18631 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
18632 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
18633 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
18636 o Minor features (controller):
18637 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
18638 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
18640 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
18641 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
18642 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
18643 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
18644 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
18645 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
18646 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
18647 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
18649 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
18650 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
18651 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
18653 o Minor features (diagnostic):
18654 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
18655 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
18656 help diagnose bug 7164.
18657 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
18658 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
18659 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
18660 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
18661 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
18663 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
18664 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
18665 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
18666 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
18667 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
18668 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
18669 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
18670 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
18671 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
18672 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
18673 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
18674 still referenced by a live node_t object.
18675 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
18676 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
18677 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
18679 o Minor features (geoip):
18680 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18683 o Minor features (interface):
18684 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
18685 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
18686 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
18687 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
18689 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
18690 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
18691 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
18693 o Minor features (log messages):
18694 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
18695 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
18696 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
18697 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
18698 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
18699 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
18700 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
18701 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
18703 o Minor features (log verbosity):
18704 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
18705 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
18706 Resolves ticket 5286.
18707 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
18708 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
18709 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
18710 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
18711 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
18712 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
18714 o Minor features (performance):
18715 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
18716 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
18717 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
18718 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
18719 Closes ticket 8109.
18721 o Minor features (relay):
18722 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
18723 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
18724 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
18726 o Minor features (testing):
18727 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
18728 the unit test scripts.
18729 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
18730 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
18731 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
18732 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
18734 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
18735 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
18736 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
18737 10267; patch from "yurivict".
18738 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
18739 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
18740 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
18741 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
18742 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
18743 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
18745 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
18746 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
18747 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
18748 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18750 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18751 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
18752 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
18753 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
18754 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
18755 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
18756 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
18757 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
18758 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
18759 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
18761 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
18762 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
18763 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
18765 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
18766 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
18767 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
18768 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
18769 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18771 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18772 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
18773 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
18774 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
18775 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18776 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
18777 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
18778 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
18779 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18780 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
18781 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
18782 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
18784 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
18785 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
18786 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
18787 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
18788 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
18789 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
18790 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
18791 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
18792 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18793 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
18794 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
18795 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18797 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
18798 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
18799 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
18800 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
18802 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
18803 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
18804 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
18805 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
18808 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
18809 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
18810 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
18811 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18812 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
18813 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
18816 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
18817 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
18818 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
18819 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
18820 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
18822 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
18823 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
18824 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
18827 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
18828 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
18829 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
18830 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
18831 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
18832 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
18833 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
18834 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
18835 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
18836 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
18838 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
18839 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
18840 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
18841 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
18842 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
18844 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
18845 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
18847 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18848 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
18849 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
18850 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
18851 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
18852 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
18853 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
18854 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
18855 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
18856 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18857 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
18858 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
18859 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
18861 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
18862 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
18863 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
18864 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
18865 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
18866 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
18867 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
18868 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
18869 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
18870 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
18871 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
18872 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
18873 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
18875 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
18876 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
18877 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
18879 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
18880 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
18881 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
18882 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
18883 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
18884 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
18886 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
18887 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
18888 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
18889 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18890 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
18891 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
18892 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
18893 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
18894 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
18895 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18897 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18898 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
18899 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18901 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
18902 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
18903 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
18904 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
18905 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
18907 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
18908 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
18909 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
18910 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18911 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
18912 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
18913 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
18914 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
18915 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
18916 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
18917 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
18918 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
18919 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
18920 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
18922 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18923 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
18924 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
18925 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
18926 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18927 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
18928 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
18929 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
18930 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
18932 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
18933 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
18934 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
18935 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
18936 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
18937 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
18938 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
18940 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
18941 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
18943 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
18944 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
18945 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
18946 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
18948 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
18949 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
18950 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
18951 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18952 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
18953 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
18954 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
18955 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
18956 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
18957 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
18958 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
18959 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
18960 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
18961 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
18962 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
18963 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
18964 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
18966 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
18967 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
18968 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
18969 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
18970 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
18971 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
18972 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
18973 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
18976 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
18977 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
18978 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
18979 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
18980 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
18981 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
18982 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18983 Reported by "mr-4".
18984 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
18985 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
18986 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
18987 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
18989 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
18990 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
18991 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
18992 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
18993 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
18994 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
18995 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
18996 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
18997 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
18998 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
18999 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
19000 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
19002 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
19003 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
19004 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
19006 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
19007 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
19008 early. Fixes bug 10081.
19010 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19011 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
19012 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
19013 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
19016 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
19017 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
19018 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
19019 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
19022 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
19023 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
19024 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
19025 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
19027 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
19028 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
19029 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19031 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
19032 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
19033 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
19034 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
19035 versions. Found by "skruffy".
19036 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
19037 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
19038 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
19041 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
19042 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
19043 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19044 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
19045 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
19046 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
19047 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
19048 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
19049 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19050 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
19051 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
19053 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19054 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
19055 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
19056 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
19057 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
19059 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
19060 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
19061 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
19062 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
19065 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
19066 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
19067 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19068 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
19069 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
19070 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
19071 should never have affected anyone in practice.
19073 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19074 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
19075 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
19076 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
19077 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
19078 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
19079 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
19080 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
19081 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
19082 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19083 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
19084 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
19085 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
19086 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
19087 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
19088 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
19089 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19090 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
19091 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
19092 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
19093 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
19094 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
19095 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
19096 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
19098 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
19099 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
19100 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
19101 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
19102 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19103 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
19104 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
19105 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
19106 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
19108 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
19109 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
19112 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
19113 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
19115 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
19117 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
19118 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
19119 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
19120 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
19121 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
19122 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
19124 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
19125 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
19127 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
19128 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
19129 caches don't get confused.
19130 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
19131 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19132 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
19133 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
19134 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
19135 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
19136 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
19137 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
19138 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
19139 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
19140 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
19141 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
19142 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
19143 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
19144 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19145 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
19146 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
19147 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19150 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
19151 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
19152 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
19153 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
19154 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
19156 o Removed code and features:
19157 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
19158 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
19159 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
19160 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
19161 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
19162 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
19164 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
19165 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
19166 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
19167 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
19168 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
19169 part of a fix for bug 10841.
19170 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
19171 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
19172 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
19173 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
19174 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
19175 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
19177 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
19178 Resolves ticket 11070.
19179 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
19180 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
19181 the rest of bug 10841.
19182 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
19183 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
19184 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
19185 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
19187 o Test infrastructure:
19188 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
19189 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
19190 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
19191 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
19192 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
19193 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
19194 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
19195 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
19196 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
19197 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
19199 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
19200 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
19201 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
19202 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
19203 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
19204 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
19205 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
19206 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
19207 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
19208 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
19209 invoking the other functions it calls.
19212 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
19213 Patch from Dana Koch.
19214 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
19215 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
19216 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
19217 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
19219 o Distribution (systemd):
19220 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
19221 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
19222 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
19223 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
19224 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
19225 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
19226 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
19227 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
19228 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
19229 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
19230 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
19231 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
19232 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
19236 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
19237 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
19238 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
19239 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
19240 (which does affect Tor).
19242 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
19243 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
19244 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
19245 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
19247 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
19248 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19249 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
19250 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19253 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
19254 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
19255 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
19256 the directory authorities.
19259 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
19260 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
19261 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
19262 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
19263 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
19264 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
19265 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
19266 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
19267 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
19268 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
19269 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
19270 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19272 o Directory authority changes:
19273 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
19275 o Minor features (geoip):
19276 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19280 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
19281 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
19282 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
19283 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
19286 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
19287 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
19288 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
19289 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
19290 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
19291 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
19292 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
19293 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
19294 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
19295 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
19298 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
19299 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
19300 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
19301 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
19302 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
19303 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
19304 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
19305 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
19309 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
19310 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
19311 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
19312 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
19313 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
19314 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
19315 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
19316 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
19317 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19318 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
19319 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
19320 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
19321 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
19324 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19328 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
19329 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
19330 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
19331 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
19332 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
19333 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
19334 of RAM, and several others.
19336 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19337 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
19338 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
19339 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
19340 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
19342 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
19343 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
19344 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
19345 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
19348 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19349 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
19350 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
19351 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
19352 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
19353 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
19354 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19355 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
19356 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
19357 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
19358 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
19359 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
19360 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
19361 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
19362 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
19363 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
19364 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
19365 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
19366 Resolves ticket 11438.
19368 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
19369 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
19370 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
19371 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
19372 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
19373 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19375 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19376 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
19377 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19379 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19380 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
19381 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19383 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19384 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
19385 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
19386 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19388 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19389 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
19390 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
19392 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19393 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
19394 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19397 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
19398 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
19399 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
19400 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
19403 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19404 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
19405 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
19406 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
19408 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19409 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
19410 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
19411 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
19413 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19414 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
19415 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
19419 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
19420 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
19421 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
19422 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
19424 o Major features (client security):
19425 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
19426 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
19427 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
19428 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
19429 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
19430 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
19433 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
19434 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
19435 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
19436 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19438 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19439 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
19440 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
19441 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
19442 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
19445 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
19446 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
19448 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
19449 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
19450 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
19451 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
19452 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
19453 GeoLite2 Country database.
19456 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
19457 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
19458 bugfix on every released Tor.
19459 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
19460 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
19461 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
19462 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19463 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
19464 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
19465 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19466 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
19467 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
19468 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19469 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
19470 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
19471 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19472 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
19473 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19475 o Documentation fixes:
19476 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
19477 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19480 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
19481 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
19482 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
19483 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
19484 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
19485 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
19486 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
19488 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
19489 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
19492 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
19493 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
19494 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
19495 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
19496 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
19497 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
19498 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
19499 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
19501 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
19502 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19503 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
19504 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
19505 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
19506 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
19509 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
19510 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19511 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
19512 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
19513 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
19516 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
19517 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
19518 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
19519 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
19520 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
19521 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
19522 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
19523 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
19525 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
19526 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
19527 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
19528 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
19529 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
19530 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
19531 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
19532 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
19533 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
19534 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
19535 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
19536 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
19537 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
19538 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
19539 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
19540 security, and privacy fixes.
19542 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
19543 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
19544 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
19545 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
19546 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
19547 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
19548 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
19549 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
19550 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
19551 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
19552 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
19554 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
19555 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
19556 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
19558 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
19560 o Major features (better link encryption):
19561 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
19562 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
19563 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
19564 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
19565 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
19566 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
19569 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
19570 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
19571 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
19572 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
19574 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
19576 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
19577 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
19578 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
19579 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
19580 them to solve bug 6033.)
19582 o Major features (relay performance):
19583 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
19584 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
19585 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
19586 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
19587 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
19588 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
19589 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
19590 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
19591 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
19592 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
19593 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
19594 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
19595 Implements ticket 9574.
19597 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
19598 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
19599 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
19600 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
19601 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
19602 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
19603 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
19604 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
19605 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
19606 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
19607 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
19608 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
19609 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
19610 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
19611 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
19612 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
19614 o Major features (use of guards):
19615 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
19616 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
19617 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
19618 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
19619 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
19620 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
19621 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
19622 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
19623 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
19624 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
19625 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
19626 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
19627 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
19628 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19630 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
19631 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
19632 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
19633 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
19635 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
19636 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
19639 o Major features (geoip database):
19640 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
19641 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
19642 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
19643 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
19644 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
19645 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
19647 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
19649 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19651 o Major features (IPv6):
19652 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
19653 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
19654 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
19655 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
19656 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
19657 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
19658 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
19659 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
19660 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
19661 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
19662 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
19663 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
19664 revised in proposal 208.
19665 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
19666 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
19667 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
19669 o Major features (directory authorities):
19670 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
19671 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
19673 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
19674 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
19675 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
19676 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
19677 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
19678 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
19679 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
19680 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
19681 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
19682 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
19683 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
19685 o Major features (build and portability):
19686 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
19687 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
19688 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
19689 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
19690 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
19691 fixes by Jim Meyering.
19692 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
19693 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
19694 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
19695 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
19696 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
19697 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
19699 o Security features:
19700 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
19701 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
19702 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
19703 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
19704 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
19705 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
19706 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
19707 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
19708 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
19711 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
19712 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
19713 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
19714 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
19715 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
19716 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
19717 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
19718 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
19719 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
19720 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
19721 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
19722 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
19723 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
19724 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
19725 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
19726 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
19727 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
19728 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19730 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
19731 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
19732 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
19733 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
19735 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
19736 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
19737 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
19739 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
19740 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
19741 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19742 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
19743 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
19744 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19745 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
19746 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
19747 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
19749 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
19750 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19752 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
19753 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
19754 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
19755 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
19756 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
19757 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
19758 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
19759 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
19760 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
19761 last time we raised it).
19762 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
19763 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
19764 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
19766 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
19767 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
19768 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
19769 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
19770 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
19771 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
19772 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
19773 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
19774 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
19775 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
19776 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
19777 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
19778 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19780 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
19781 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
19782 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
19783 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
19784 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
19785 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
19786 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
19787 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
19788 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19789 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
19790 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
19791 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
19792 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
19794 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
19795 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
19796 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
19797 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
19798 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
19799 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
19800 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
19801 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
19802 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
19804 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
19805 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
19806 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
19807 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
19808 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
19809 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
19810 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
19811 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
19812 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
19813 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
19814 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
19815 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
19816 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
19817 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
19818 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
19819 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
19820 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
19823 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
19824 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
19825 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
19826 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19828 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
19829 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
19830 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
19831 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
19833 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
19834 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
19835 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
19836 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
19837 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
19838 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
19841 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
19842 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
19843 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
19844 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
19845 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
19846 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
19847 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
19849 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
19850 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
19851 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
19852 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19854 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
19855 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
19856 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
19857 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
19858 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
19859 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
19860 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
19861 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
19863 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
19864 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
19865 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
19867 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
19868 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
19869 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19871 o Internal abstraction features:
19872 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
19873 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
19874 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
19875 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
19876 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
19877 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
19878 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
19879 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
19880 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
19881 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
19882 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
19883 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
19884 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
19885 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
19886 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
19887 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
19888 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
19890 o New build requirements:
19891 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
19892 strongly recommended.
19893 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
19894 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
19895 from a source distribution.)
19897 o Minor features (protocol):
19898 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
19899 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
19901 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
19902 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
19903 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
19904 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
19905 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
19906 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
19907 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
19908 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
19909 closes ticket 7199.
19910 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
19911 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
19913 o Minor features (security):
19914 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
19915 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
19916 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
19917 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
19918 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
19919 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
19920 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
19921 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
19922 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
19924 o Minor features (control protocol):
19925 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
19927 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
19928 Implements ticket 4971.
19929 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
19930 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
19931 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
19932 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
19933 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
19935 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
19936 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
19938 o Minor features (path selection):
19939 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
19940 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
19941 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
19942 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
19943 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
19944 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
19945 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
19946 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
19947 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
19948 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
19949 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
19950 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
19951 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
19952 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
19954 o Minor features (hidden services):
19955 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
19956 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
19957 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
19958 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
19959 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
19960 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
19961 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
19962 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
19963 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
19964 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
19965 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
19966 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
19967 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
19969 o Minor features (clients):
19970 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
19971 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
19972 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
19973 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
19974 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
19975 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
19976 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
19977 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
19978 the ORPort and the DirPort.
19980 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
19981 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
19982 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
19983 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
19984 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
19985 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
19986 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
19987 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
19988 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
19989 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
19990 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
19991 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
19992 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
19993 Implements part of proposal 222.
19995 o Minor features (bridges):
19996 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
19997 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
19998 bugs 1913 and 1992.
19999 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
20000 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
20001 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
20002 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
20003 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
20004 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
20005 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
20006 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
20007 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
20008 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
20009 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
20011 o Minor features (relays):
20012 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
20013 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
20015 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
20016 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
20017 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
20018 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
20019 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
20020 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
20021 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
20022 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
20023 connect to the wrong addresses.
20024 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
20025 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
20026 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
20027 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
20030 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
20031 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
20032 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
20033 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
20034 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
20035 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
20037 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20038 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
20039 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
20040 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
20042 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
20043 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
20044 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
20045 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
20046 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
20047 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
20049 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
20050 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
20051 Implements ticket 8151.
20052 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
20053 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
20054 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
20055 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
20057 o Minor features (path bias detection):
20058 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
20059 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
20060 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
20061 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
20062 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
20063 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
20064 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
20065 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
20066 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
20067 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
20068 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
20069 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
20070 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
20071 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
20072 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
20073 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
20074 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
20075 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
20076 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
20077 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
20078 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
20079 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
20080 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
20081 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
20082 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
20083 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
20084 detection capability loss.
20086 o Minor features (build):
20087 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
20088 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
20089 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
20091 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
20092 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
20093 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20095 o Build improvements (autotools):
20096 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
20097 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
20098 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
20100 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
20101 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
20102 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
20103 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
20105 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
20106 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
20107 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
20108 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
20109 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
20110 than to perform erroneously.
20111 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
20113 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
20114 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
20115 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
20117 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
20118 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
20119 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
20120 hard-to-track-down errors.
20121 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
20122 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
20123 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
20124 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
20125 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
20126 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
20127 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
20128 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20129 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
20130 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
20131 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
20133 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
20134 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
20135 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
20136 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
20137 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
20138 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
20139 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
20140 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
20141 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
20142 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
20144 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
20145 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
20146 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
20147 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
20148 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
20149 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
20150 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
20151 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
20152 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
20153 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
20154 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
20155 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
20156 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
20158 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
20159 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
20160 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
20161 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
20162 or at least make it more diagnosable.
20163 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
20164 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
20165 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
20166 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
20168 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
20169 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
20170 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
20171 part of ticket 6736.
20172 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
20173 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
20174 Resolves ticket 6758.
20175 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
20176 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
20177 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
20178 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20179 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
20180 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
20181 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
20183 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
20184 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
20185 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
20186 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20188 o Minor features (testing):
20189 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
20190 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
20192 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
20193 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
20194 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
20197 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
20198 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
20200 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
20201 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
20202 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
20203 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
20204 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
20205 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
20206 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
20207 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
20208 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
20209 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
20210 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
20211 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
20212 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
20213 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
20214 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
20215 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
20216 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
20218 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
20219 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
20220 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
20221 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
20222 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
20223 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
20224 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
20225 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
20226 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
20227 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
20228 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
20229 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
20230 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
20231 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
20232 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
20233 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
20234 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
20235 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20236 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
20237 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
20240 o Minor fixes (config options):
20241 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
20242 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
20243 or we just won't work.)
20244 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
20245 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
20246 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20247 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
20248 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
20249 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20250 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
20251 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20252 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
20253 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
20254 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
20255 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20256 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
20257 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
20258 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
20259 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20260 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
20261 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
20262 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
20264 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
20265 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
20266 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
20268 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
20269 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
20270 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
20271 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
20273 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
20274 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
20275 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
20276 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
20277 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
20278 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20279 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
20280 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
20281 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
20282 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
20283 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20284 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
20285 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
20286 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
20287 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
20288 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
20291 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
20292 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
20293 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
20294 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
20295 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
20296 Should help resolve bug 8235.
20297 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
20298 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
20299 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
20300 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
20301 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
20302 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
20303 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
20304 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
20305 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
20306 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
20307 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
20309 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20310 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
20311 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
20312 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
20313 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
20314 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
20315 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
20316 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
20318 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
20319 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
20320 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
20321 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
20323 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
20324 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
20325 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
20326 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
20327 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
20329 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
20330 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
20331 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
20332 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20333 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
20334 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20336 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
20337 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
20338 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20339 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
20340 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
20341 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
20342 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
20343 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
20344 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
20346 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20347 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
20348 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
20349 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
20350 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20351 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
20352 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
20353 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
20354 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
20355 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
20356 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
20357 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
20359 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
20360 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
20361 this is CID 718634.
20362 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
20363 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
20364 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
20365 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
20367 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
20368 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
20370 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
20371 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
20372 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
20373 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
20374 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
20375 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
20376 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
20377 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20378 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
20379 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
20380 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
20381 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20382 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
20383 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
20384 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20385 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
20386 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
20387 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
20389 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
20390 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
20391 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
20392 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
20393 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20394 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
20395 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
20396 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
20397 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
20398 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
20399 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
20400 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
20401 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
20404 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
20405 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
20406 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
20407 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
20408 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
20410 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
20411 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20412 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
20413 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
20414 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
20415 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20416 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
20417 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
20418 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
20421 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20422 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
20423 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20424 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20426 o Documentation fixes:
20427 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
20428 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
20429 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
20430 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
20431 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
20432 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
20433 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
20435 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
20436 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
20437 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
20438 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
20439 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
20440 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
20441 message is logged at notice, not at info.
20442 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
20443 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
20444 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
20445 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
20446 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
20447 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
20449 o Removed features:
20450 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
20451 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
20452 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
20454 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
20455 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
20456 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
20457 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
20458 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
20459 compatibility code.
20462 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
20463 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
20465 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
20466 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
20468 o Code simplification:
20469 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
20470 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
20471 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
20472 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
20474 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
20475 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
20477 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
20478 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
20479 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
20480 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
20481 present the same extensions.)
20482 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
20484 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
20485 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
20486 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
20487 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
20489 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
20490 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
20491 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
20492 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
20495 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
20497 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
20498 and the different handshakes it supports.
20499 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
20500 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
20501 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
20502 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
20504 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
20505 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
20506 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
20507 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
20508 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
20509 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
20510 testable, and a little less fragile too.
20511 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
20512 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
20513 Implements ticket 5529.
20514 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
20515 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
20516 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
20519 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
20520 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
20521 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
20522 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
20523 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
20524 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20525 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
20526 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
20527 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
20528 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
20529 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
20530 any encoding is overkill.
20531 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
20532 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
20533 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
20534 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
20535 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
20536 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
20537 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
20538 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
20539 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
20542 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
20543 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
20544 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
20545 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
20546 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
20547 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
20548 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
20549 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
20551 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
20552 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
20553 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
20554 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
20555 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
20556 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
20557 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
20558 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
20559 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
20560 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
20561 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
20563 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
20564 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
20565 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
20566 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
20567 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
20568 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
20569 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
20570 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
20571 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
20572 describes microdescriptors.
20574 o Major features (build hardening):
20575 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
20577 o Major features (relay scaling):
20578 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
20579 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
20580 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
20581 much faster than other AES implementations.
20582 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
20583 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
20584 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
20585 Resolves ticket 4526.
20586 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
20587 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
20589 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
20590 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
20591 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
20592 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
20594 o Major features (blocking resistance):
20595 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
20597 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
20598 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
20599 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
20600 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
20601 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
20602 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
20603 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
20604 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
20605 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
20606 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
20607 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
20608 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
20609 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
20610 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
20611 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
20612 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
20613 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
20614 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
20615 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
20617 o Major features (pluggable transports):
20618 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
20619 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
20620 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
20621 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
20623 o Major features (DoS resistance):
20624 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
20625 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
20626 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
20627 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
20628 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
20629 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
20630 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
20631 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
20632 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
20633 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
20634 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
20636 o Major features (hidden services):
20637 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
20638 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
20639 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
20641 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
20642 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
20643 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
20644 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
20645 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
20646 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
20648 o Major features (IPv6):
20649 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
20650 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
20651 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
20652 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
20653 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
20655 o Major features (directory authorities):
20656 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
20657 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
20658 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
20659 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
20660 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
20661 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
20662 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
20663 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
20664 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
20665 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
20667 o Major features (performance):
20668 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
20669 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
20670 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
20671 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
20672 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
20673 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
20674 side of Proposal 174.
20675 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
20676 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
20677 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
20678 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
20679 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
20680 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
20681 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
20682 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
20683 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
20684 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
20685 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
20686 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
20688 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
20689 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
20690 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
20691 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
20692 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
20695 o Major features (relays):
20696 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
20697 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
20698 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
20699 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
20700 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
20701 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
20702 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
20704 o Major features (stream isolation):
20705 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
20706 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
20707 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
20708 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
20709 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
20710 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
20711 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
20712 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
20713 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
20714 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
20715 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
20716 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
20717 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
20718 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
20720 o Major features (bufferevents):
20721 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
20722 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
20723 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
20724 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
20725 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
20726 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
20727 zero-copy transports where available.
20728 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
20729 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
20730 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
20731 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
20732 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
20733 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
20735 o Major features (path selection):
20736 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
20737 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
20738 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
20739 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
20742 o Major features (port forwarding):
20743 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
20744 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
20745 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
20746 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
20747 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
20748 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
20750 o Major features (logging):
20751 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
20752 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
20753 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
20754 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
20755 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
20756 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
20757 Implements enhancement 1668.
20759 o Major features (other):
20760 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
20761 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
20762 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
20763 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
20764 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
20765 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
20766 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
20767 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
20768 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
20769 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
20770 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
20771 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
20772 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
20773 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
20774 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
20775 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
20776 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
20777 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
20778 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
20779 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
20781 o New directory authorities:
20782 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
20783 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
20785 o Security/privacy fixes:
20786 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
20787 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
20788 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20789 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
20790 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
20791 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
20792 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20793 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
20794 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
20795 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
20796 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
20797 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
20798 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
20799 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
20800 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
20801 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
20802 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
20803 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
20804 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
20805 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
20806 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
20807 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
20808 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
20809 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
20810 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
20811 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
20812 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
20813 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
20814 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
20815 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
20816 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
20818 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
20819 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
20820 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
20821 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
20822 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
20823 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
20824 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
20825 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20826 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
20827 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
20828 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
20829 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
20830 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
20831 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
20834 o Major bugfixes (clients):
20835 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
20836 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
20837 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
20838 which introduced predicted ports.
20839 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
20840 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
20841 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
20842 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
20843 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
20844 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
20845 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20846 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
20847 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
20849 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
20850 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
20851 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
20852 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
20853 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
20854 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
20856 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
20857 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
20858 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
20859 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
20860 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
20861 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
20862 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
20863 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
20864 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
20865 documents entirely.
20867 o Major bugfixes (relays):
20868 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
20869 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
20870 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
20871 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
20872 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
20873 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
20874 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
20875 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
20876 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
20877 immensely in tracking this bug down.
20878 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
20879 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
20880 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
20881 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
20882 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
20883 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
20884 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
20886 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
20887 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
20888 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
20889 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
20890 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
20891 cells were introduced.
20892 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
20893 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
20894 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
20895 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
20897 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20898 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
20899 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
20900 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
20901 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
20902 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
20903 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
20904 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
20905 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
20906 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
20907 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
20908 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
20909 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
20910 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
20911 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
20912 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
20913 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
20914 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
20915 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
20916 Fixes part of bug 3825.
20918 o Changes to default torrc file:
20919 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
20920 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
20922 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
20923 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
20924 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
20926 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
20927 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
20928 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
20930 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20931 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
20932 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
20933 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
20934 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
20935 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
20936 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
20937 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
20938 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
20939 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
20940 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
20941 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
20942 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
20943 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
20944 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
20945 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
20948 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
20949 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
20950 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
20951 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
20952 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
20953 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
20954 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
20955 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
20956 sure. Closes bug 5139.
20957 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
20958 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
20959 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
20960 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
20961 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
20963 o Minor features (IPv6):
20964 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
20965 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
20966 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
20967 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
20968 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
20969 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
20971 o Minor features (hidden services):
20972 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
20973 Required by fix for bug 3460.
20974 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
20975 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
20976 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
20977 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
20978 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
20979 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
20980 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
20981 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
20982 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
20984 o Minor features (relays):
20985 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
20986 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
20987 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
20988 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
20989 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
20990 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
20991 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
20992 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
20993 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
20994 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
20995 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
20998 o Minor features (new config options):
20999 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
21000 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
21001 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
21002 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
21003 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
21004 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
21005 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
21006 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
21007 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
21008 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
21009 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
21010 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
21012 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
21013 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
21014 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
21015 Implements issue 933.
21016 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
21017 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
21018 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
21019 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
21020 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
21021 implements ticket 3439.
21022 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
21023 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
21024 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
21025 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
21026 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
21027 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
21028 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
21029 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
21031 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
21032 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
21033 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
21034 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
21035 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
21036 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
21037 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
21038 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
21039 appending to the list.
21040 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
21041 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
21042 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
21043 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
21046 o Minor features (controller, new events):
21047 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
21048 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
21049 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
21050 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
21051 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
21052 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
21054 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
21055 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
21056 circuit-status' control-port command.
21057 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
21058 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
21059 user. Implements ticket 1692.
21060 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
21061 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
21062 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
21064 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
21065 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
21066 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
21067 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
21068 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
21069 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
21070 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
21071 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
21072 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
21074 o Minor features (controller, other):
21075 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
21076 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
21077 part of ticket 3457.
21078 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
21079 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
21080 file. Resolves bug 1101.
21081 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
21082 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
21084 o Minor features (log messages):
21085 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
21086 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
21087 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
21088 please let us know about it.
21089 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
21090 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
21091 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
21092 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
21093 Resolves ticket 2474.
21094 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
21095 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
21097 o Minor features (other):
21098 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
21099 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
21100 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
21101 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
21103 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
21104 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
21105 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
21106 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
21107 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
21108 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
21109 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
21111 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
21112 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
21113 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
21114 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
21115 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
21117 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
21118 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
21119 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
21120 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
21121 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
21122 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
21123 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
21124 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
21125 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21126 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
21127 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
21128 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
21129 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
21130 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
21131 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
21132 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
21135 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
21136 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
21137 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
21138 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
21139 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
21140 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
21141 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21142 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
21143 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
21145 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
21146 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
21147 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
21148 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
21149 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
21150 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
21151 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21152 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
21153 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
21154 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21156 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21157 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
21158 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21159 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
21160 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
21161 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
21162 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21163 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
21164 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
21166 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
21167 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
21168 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
21169 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
21170 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
21171 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
21172 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
21173 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
21174 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
21176 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21177 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
21178 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
21179 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
21180 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
21181 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
21182 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
21184 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
21185 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
21186 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
21187 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
21189 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21190 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
21191 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
21192 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21193 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
21194 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
21195 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
21196 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
21197 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
21198 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
21199 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
21200 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
21203 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
21204 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
21205 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21206 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
21207 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
21208 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
21210 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
21211 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
21212 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21213 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
21214 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
21215 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
21216 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21217 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
21218 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
21219 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
21220 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
21221 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
21222 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
21223 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
21224 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
21226 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
21227 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
21228 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
21229 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
21230 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
21231 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
21233 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
21234 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
21235 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
21236 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
21237 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
21238 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
21239 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
21240 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
21241 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
21242 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
21243 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
21244 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
21245 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
21246 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
21247 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21249 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
21250 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
21251 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
21252 be disabled using the new
21253 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
21254 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21255 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
21256 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
21257 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
21258 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
21259 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
21261 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
21262 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
21263 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
21264 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21265 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
21266 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
21267 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
21269 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
21270 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
21271 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
21272 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
21273 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21274 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
21275 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
21276 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
21278 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
21279 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
21280 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
21281 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21282 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
21283 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
21284 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
21285 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21287 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21288 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
21289 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
21290 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
21291 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
21292 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
21293 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
21294 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
21296 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
21297 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
21298 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
21299 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
21301 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
21302 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
21303 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
21305 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
21306 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
21308 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
21309 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
21310 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
21311 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
21312 case for flushing marked connections.
21313 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
21314 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
21315 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
21316 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
21317 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
21318 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
21319 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
21320 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
21321 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
21322 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21324 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21325 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
21326 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
21327 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
21328 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
21329 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
21330 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
21331 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
21332 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
21333 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
21334 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
21336 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
21337 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
21338 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
21339 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
21340 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21342 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
21343 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
21344 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
21345 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
21346 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21347 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
21348 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
21349 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
21350 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
21351 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
21352 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
21353 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
21354 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
21355 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
21356 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
21357 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
21359 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
21360 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
21361 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
21362 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21363 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
21364 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
21365 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21366 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
21367 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21368 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
21369 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
21370 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
21371 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
21372 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
21373 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
21374 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
21375 Implements ticket 3264.
21376 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
21378 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
21379 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
21380 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
21381 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
21382 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
21383 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
21385 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
21386 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
21387 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21388 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
21389 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
21390 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21391 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
21392 them from the other auths.
21393 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
21394 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
21395 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
21396 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21397 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
21398 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
21399 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
21400 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
21404 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
21405 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
21406 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
21408 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
21409 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
21410 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
21411 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
21412 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
21413 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
21414 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
21415 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
21417 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
21418 ./src/test/bench binary.
21419 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
21420 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
21421 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
21422 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
21425 o Build improvements:
21426 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
21427 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
21428 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
21429 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
21430 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
21431 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
21432 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
21433 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21434 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
21435 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
21436 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
21437 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
21438 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
21439 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
21440 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
21441 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
21442 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
21443 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
21444 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
21445 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
21446 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
21448 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
21450 o Build requirements:
21451 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
21452 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
21453 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
21454 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
21455 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
21456 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
21457 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
21458 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
21459 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
21460 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
21461 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
21462 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
21463 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
21465 o Build fixes (compile/link):
21466 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
21467 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
21469 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
21470 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
21471 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
21472 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
21473 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
21474 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
21475 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21476 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
21477 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21479 o Build fixes (other):
21480 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
21481 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
21483 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
21484 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
21485 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
21486 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21487 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
21488 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
21489 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
21490 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
21492 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
21493 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
21496 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
21497 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
21498 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
21499 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
21500 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
21501 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
21502 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
21503 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
21505 o Code refactoring (safety):
21506 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
21507 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
21508 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
21509 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
21510 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
21511 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
21512 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
21513 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
21514 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
21515 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
21516 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
21517 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
21519 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
21520 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
21521 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
21522 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
21523 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
21524 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
21525 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
21526 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
21527 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
21528 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
21529 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
21530 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
21531 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
21532 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
21533 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
21534 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
21535 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
21536 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
21538 o Code refactoring (separate):
21539 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
21540 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
21541 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
21543 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
21544 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
21547 o Code refactoring (name changes):
21548 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
21549 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
21550 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
21551 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
21552 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
21553 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
21554 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
21556 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
21557 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
21558 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
21559 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
21560 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
21561 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
21562 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
21563 invalid value, rather than just -1.
21564 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
21565 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
21566 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
21568 o Code refactoring (other):
21569 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
21570 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
21572 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
21573 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
21574 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
21575 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
21576 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
21577 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
21578 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
21579 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
21580 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
21581 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
21582 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
21583 our library structure used to force them to link it.
21585 o Removed features and files:
21586 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
21587 it would be a bad idea to start.
21588 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
21590 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
21591 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
21592 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
21593 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
21594 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
21595 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
21596 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
21597 are no longer in use as relays.
21598 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
21599 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
21600 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
21601 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
21602 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
21603 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
21607 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
21608 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
21609 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
21611 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
21612 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
21614 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
21615 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
21616 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
21618 o Documentation fixes:
21619 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
21620 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
21621 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
21622 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
21623 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
21624 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
21625 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
21626 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
21629 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
21630 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
21634 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21635 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21636 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21637 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
21638 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
21639 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
21640 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
21644 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
21645 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
21646 attack that could in theory leak path information.
21649 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
21650 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
21651 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21652 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
21653 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
21654 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
21655 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
21656 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
21657 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
21658 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
21659 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
21660 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
21661 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
21662 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21665 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
21666 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
21667 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
21671 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
21672 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
21673 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
21674 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
21675 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
21676 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
21677 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21678 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
21679 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
21680 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
21681 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21684 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
21685 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
21688 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
21689 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
21692 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
21693 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
21694 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
21695 and fixes several crash bugs.
21697 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
21698 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
21699 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
21700 those packages and upgrade anyway.
21702 o Directory authority changes:
21703 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
21704 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
21708 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
21709 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
21710 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
21711 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
21712 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
21713 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
21714 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
21715 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
21716 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
21717 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
21718 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
21719 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
21720 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
21721 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
21722 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
21723 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
21724 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
21725 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
21726 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
21727 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
21728 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
21729 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
21730 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
21731 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
21732 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
21733 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
21734 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
21737 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
21738 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21739 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
21740 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
21742 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
21743 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
21745 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
21746 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
21747 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
21748 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
21749 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
21750 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
21751 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
21752 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
21755 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
21756 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
21757 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
21758 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
21759 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
21760 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
21761 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
21762 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
21763 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
21764 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
21765 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
21766 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
21767 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
21768 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
21769 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
21770 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
21771 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
21772 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
21773 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
21774 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
21775 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
21776 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
21777 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
21778 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
21779 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
21780 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
21781 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
21782 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
21783 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
21784 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
21785 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
21786 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
21787 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
21788 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
21789 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21790 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
21791 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
21792 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
21793 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
21794 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21795 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
21796 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21797 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
21798 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
21799 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
21800 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21802 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
21803 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
21804 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
21805 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
21806 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
21807 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
21808 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
21809 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
21810 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
21811 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
21812 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21813 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
21814 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21815 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
21816 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
21819 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
21820 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
21821 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
21822 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
21824 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21827 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
21828 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
21829 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
21830 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
21831 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
21832 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
21833 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
21836 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
21837 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
21838 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
21840 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
21841 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
21842 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
21843 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
21844 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
21845 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
21846 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
21847 (which Tor does not do by default).
21849 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
21850 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
21851 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
21852 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
21853 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
21855 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
21856 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
21857 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
21860 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
21861 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
21862 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
21863 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
21864 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
21866 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
21867 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
21870 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
21871 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
21872 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
21873 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
21874 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
21875 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
21876 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
21877 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
21879 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
21880 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
21881 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
21882 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
21883 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
21884 close based on processing a cell on it.
21885 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
21886 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
21887 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
21888 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21889 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
21890 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
21891 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21892 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
21893 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
21894 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
21895 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
21896 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
21897 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
21898 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
21899 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
21902 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
21903 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
21904 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
21905 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
21906 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
21907 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
21908 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
21910 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
21911 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
21912 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
21913 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
21914 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
21915 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21916 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
21917 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
21918 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21919 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
21920 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
21921 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
21922 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
21923 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21924 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
21925 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
21926 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
21927 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
21928 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21929 Reported by "troll_un".
21930 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
21931 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21932 Reported by "troll_un".
21933 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
21934 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
21935 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
21936 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
21939 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
21940 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
21941 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
21942 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
21943 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
21944 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
21945 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
21946 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
21947 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
21948 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
21949 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21951 o Packaging changes:
21952 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
21953 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
21956 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
21957 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
21958 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
21959 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
21960 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
21962 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
21963 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
21965 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
21966 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
21967 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
21968 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
21969 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21970 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
21971 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
21972 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
21973 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
21976 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
21979 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
21980 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
21981 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
21983 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
21984 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
21985 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
21986 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
21987 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
21988 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
21989 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
21990 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
21991 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
21992 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
21993 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
21994 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
21995 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
21997 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
21998 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
21999 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
22000 currently connected to them.
22002 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
22003 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
22004 remain; see for example proposal 188.
22006 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
22007 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22008 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22009 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22010 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22011 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22012 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22013 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22014 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22015 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22016 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22017 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
22018 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
22019 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
22020 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
22021 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
22022 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
22023 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
22026 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
22027 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
22028 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
22029 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
22030 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
22031 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
22032 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
22033 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22034 when bridges were introduced.
22035 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22036 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22037 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22038 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22039 Found by "frosty_un".
22042 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
22043 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
22045 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
22046 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
22047 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
22048 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
22049 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
22050 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
22051 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
22054 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
22055 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
22056 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
22057 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
22058 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
22059 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
22060 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
22061 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
22062 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
22063 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
22064 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
22065 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
22066 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
22067 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
22068 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
22069 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
22070 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
22071 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
22073 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
22074 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
22075 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
22076 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22077 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
22078 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
22079 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
22080 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
22081 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
22082 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
22083 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
22084 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22087 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
22088 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
22089 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
22090 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22093 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
22094 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22095 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22096 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22097 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22099 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22100 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
22101 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
22102 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
22103 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
22104 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
22105 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
22106 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22107 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22108 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22110 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22111 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22112 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22113 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22114 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22115 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22116 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22117 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22118 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22119 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22120 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22121 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22122 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22123 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22124 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22125 Found by "frosty_un".
22126 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
22127 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
22128 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
22129 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
22130 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
22131 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22132 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
22133 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
22134 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22135 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
22136 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
22137 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
22138 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22139 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
22140 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
22141 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
22142 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
22143 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
22144 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
22146 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22147 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
22148 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
22149 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
22150 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
22151 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
22152 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
22153 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
22155 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
22156 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
22157 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
22158 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
22159 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
22160 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
22161 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
22162 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
22163 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
22164 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
22165 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
22166 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
22168 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
22169 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22170 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
22171 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22172 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
22173 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22174 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
22175 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
22176 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
22178 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
22180 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
22181 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
22182 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
22183 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22184 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
22185 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
22186 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
22187 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22189 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
22190 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
22191 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
22192 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
22193 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
22195 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22196 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
22197 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
22198 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
22199 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22202 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
22203 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
22204 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
22205 reachable from Iran again.
22208 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
22209 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
22210 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22212 o Minor features (security):
22213 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
22214 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
22215 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
22216 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
22217 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
22218 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
22219 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
22220 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
22221 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
22222 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
22225 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
22226 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
22227 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
22228 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
22229 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
22230 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
22231 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
22232 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
22233 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22235 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22236 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
22237 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
22238 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
22239 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
22240 raised by bug 3898.
22241 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
22242 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
22243 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
22244 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
22245 fixes part of bug 2442.
22246 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
22247 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
22248 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
22250 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
22251 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
22252 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
22253 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
22254 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22257 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
22258 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22259 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
22260 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
22261 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
22262 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
22265 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
22266 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
22267 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
22268 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
22269 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
22270 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
22271 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
22272 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
22273 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
22274 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
22276 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
22277 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
22278 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
22279 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
22280 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
22281 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
22282 many many other features and bugfixes.
22284 o Major features (client performance):
22285 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
22286 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
22287 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
22288 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
22289 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
22290 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
22292 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
22293 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
22294 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
22295 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
22296 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
22297 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
22298 the first implementation of this feature.
22300 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
22301 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
22302 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
22303 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
22304 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
22305 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
22306 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
22307 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
22308 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
22309 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
22310 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
22311 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
22312 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
22313 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
22314 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
22315 file. Implements ticket 1296.
22317 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
22318 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
22319 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
22320 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
22321 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
22322 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
22323 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
22324 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
22325 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
22326 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
22327 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
22328 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
22329 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
22330 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
22331 they first get the Guard flag.
22332 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
22333 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
22334 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
22335 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
22336 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
22337 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
22338 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
22339 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
22341 o Major features (relays control their load better):
22342 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
22343 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
22344 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
22345 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
22346 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
22347 based on a variant of proposal 163.
22348 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
22349 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
22350 but never per-conn write limits.
22351 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
22352 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
22353 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
22354 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
22356 o Major features (controllers):
22357 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
22358 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
22359 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
22360 contributions to the network.
22361 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
22362 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
22363 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
22365 o Major features (directory authorities):
22366 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
22367 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
22368 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
22370 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
22371 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
22372 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
22373 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
22374 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
22375 download consensus + microdescriptors".
22376 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
22377 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
22378 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
22379 hash algorithm in the future.
22380 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
22381 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
22382 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
22384 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
22385 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
22386 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
22387 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
22388 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
22389 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
22390 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
22391 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
22392 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
22393 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
22394 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
22395 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
22396 connections to directory servers.
22397 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
22398 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
22399 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
22400 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
22401 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
22402 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
22403 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
22404 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
22405 information, or fetch directory information.
22406 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
22407 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
22408 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
22409 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
22410 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
22412 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
22413 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
22414 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
22415 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
22416 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
22417 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
22418 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
22419 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
22420 the network changes.
22421 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
22422 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
22424 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
22425 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
22426 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
22427 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
22428 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
22429 unless you really want your Tor to break.
22430 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
22431 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
22432 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
22433 - When StrictNodes is 1:
22434 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
22435 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
22436 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
22437 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
22438 reachability self-tests.
22439 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
22440 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
22441 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
22442 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
22443 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
22445 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
22446 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22447 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
22449 o Major features (misc):
22450 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
22451 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
22452 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
22453 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
22454 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
22455 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
22456 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
22457 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
22458 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
22459 part of ticket 3076.
22460 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
22461 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
22462 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
22464 o Code security improvements:
22465 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
22466 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
22467 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
22468 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
22469 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
22470 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
22471 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
22472 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
22473 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
22474 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22475 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
22476 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
22477 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
22478 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
22479 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
22480 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
22481 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22482 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
22483 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
22484 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
22485 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
22486 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
22487 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
22488 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
22489 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
22490 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
22491 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
22492 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
22494 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22495 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
22496 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
22497 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
22498 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
22499 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
22500 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
22501 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
22502 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
22503 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
22504 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
22505 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
22506 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
22508 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
22509 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
22510 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
22512 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
22513 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
22515 o Major bugfixes (stability):
22516 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22517 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22518 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22519 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
22520 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22521 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
22522 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
22523 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
22524 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
22525 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
22526 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
22527 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
22528 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
22529 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
22530 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
22531 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
22533 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
22534 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
22535 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
22537 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
22538 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
22539 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
22540 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
22541 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
22542 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
22543 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
22544 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
22545 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
22546 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
22547 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
22548 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
22549 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
22550 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
22551 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
22552 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
22553 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
22554 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
22555 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22557 o Privacy fixes (clients):
22558 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
22559 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
22560 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
22561 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
22562 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
22563 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22564 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
22565 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
22566 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
22568 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
22569 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
22570 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
22571 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
22572 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
22573 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
22574 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
22575 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
22576 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
22577 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
22579 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
22580 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
22581 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
22582 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22583 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
22584 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
22585 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22586 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
22587 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
22588 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
22589 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
22590 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
22591 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
22593 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
22594 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
22595 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
22596 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
22597 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
22598 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
22599 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
22600 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
22601 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
22602 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22604 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
22605 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
22606 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
22607 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
22608 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
22609 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
22610 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
22612 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
22613 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
22614 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
22615 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
22616 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
22617 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
22618 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
22619 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
22620 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
22621 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
22622 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
22623 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
22624 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
22625 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
22626 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
22628 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22629 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
22630 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
22631 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
22632 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
22633 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
22634 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
22636 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
22637 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
22638 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
22639 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
22640 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
22641 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
22642 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
22643 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
22645 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
22646 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
22647 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
22648 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
22649 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
22650 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
22651 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
22652 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
22653 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
22654 the longest-lived bug prize.
22655 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
22656 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
22657 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
22658 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
22659 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
22660 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
22661 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
22662 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
22663 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
22664 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
22666 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
22667 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
22668 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
22669 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
22670 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
22671 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
22674 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22675 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
22676 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
22677 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
22678 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
22679 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
22680 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
22681 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
22682 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
22683 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
22684 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
22685 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22686 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
22687 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
22688 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
22689 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
22690 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
22691 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
22692 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
22693 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
22694 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
22695 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
22696 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
22697 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
22698 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
22699 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
22701 o Major bugfixes (misc):
22702 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
22703 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
22704 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22705 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
22706 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
22707 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
22708 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
22709 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
22711 o Minor features (relays):
22712 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
22713 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
22714 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
22715 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
22716 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
22717 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
22718 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
22719 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
22721 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
22722 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
22723 Resolves ticket 3252.
22724 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
22725 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
22727 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
22728 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
22729 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
22730 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
22731 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
22733 o Minor features (network statistics):
22734 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
22735 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
22736 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
22737 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
22738 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
22739 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
22740 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
22741 measure download times.
22742 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22743 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
22745 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
22746 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
22747 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22748 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
22750 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
22751 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
22752 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
22754 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
22755 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
22756 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
22757 Implements ticket 2432.
22758 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
22759 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
22760 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
22761 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
22762 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
22763 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
22764 Implements enhancement 1790.
22765 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
22766 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
22768 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
22769 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
22770 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
22771 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
22772 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
22773 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
22774 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
22776 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22778 o Minor features (clients):
22779 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
22780 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
22781 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
22782 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
22784 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
22785 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
22786 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
22787 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
22788 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
22789 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
22790 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
22791 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
22793 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
22794 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
22795 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
22796 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
22797 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
22798 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
22799 SSL handshake issues.
22801 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22802 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
22803 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
22804 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
22805 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
22806 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
22807 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
22808 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
22809 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
22810 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
22811 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
22812 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
22813 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
22814 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
22815 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
22816 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
22817 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
22818 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
22819 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
22820 hour of their uptime.
22821 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
22822 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
22823 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
22824 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
22826 o Minor features (hidden services):
22827 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
22828 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
22829 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
22830 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
22831 Required by fix for bug 3000.
22832 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
22833 by fix for bug 3000.
22834 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
22835 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
22836 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
22837 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
22838 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
22840 o Minor features (controller interface):
22841 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
22842 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
22843 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
22844 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
22845 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
22846 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
22847 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
22848 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
22849 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
22850 over our stored history.
22851 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
22852 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
22853 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
22855 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
22856 to the circuit build timeout.
22857 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
22858 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
22859 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
22861 o Minor features (controller protocol):
22862 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
22863 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
22864 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
22866 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
22867 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
22868 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
22869 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
22870 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
22871 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
22872 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
22873 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
22874 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
22875 arguments we do not recognize.
22877 o Minor features (more useful logging):
22878 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
22879 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
22880 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
22881 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
22882 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
22883 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
22884 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
22885 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
22886 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
22887 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
22888 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
22889 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
22890 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
22891 got suppressed since the last warning.
22892 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
22893 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
22894 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
22895 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
22896 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
22897 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
22898 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
22900 o Minor features (log domains):
22901 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
22902 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
22903 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
22905 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
22906 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
22908 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
22909 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
22910 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
22912 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
22913 during the TLS handshake.
22915 o Minor features (build process):
22916 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
22917 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
22918 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
22920 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
22921 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
22922 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
22924 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
22925 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
22926 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
22927 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
22928 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
22929 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
22931 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
22932 source files Tor was built with.
22933 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
22934 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
22935 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
22936 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
22937 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
22938 speeds up the build considerably.
22940 o Minor features (options / torrc):
22941 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
22942 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
22943 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
22944 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
22945 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
22946 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
22947 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
22948 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
22949 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
22950 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
22951 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
22952 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
22953 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
22954 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
22955 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
22956 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
22957 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
22958 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
22959 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
22960 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
22961 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
22962 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
22963 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
22964 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
22965 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
22966 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
22967 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
22969 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
22970 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
22971 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
22974 o Minor features (unit tests):
22975 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
22976 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
22977 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
22978 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
22979 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
22980 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
22982 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
22983 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
22986 o Minor features (misc):
22987 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
22988 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
22989 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
22990 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
22992 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
22993 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
22994 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
22995 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
22996 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
22998 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
22999 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
23000 open() without checking it.
23001 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
23002 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
23003 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
23004 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
23006 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23007 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
23008 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
23009 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
23010 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
23011 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
23012 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
23013 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
23014 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
23015 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
23016 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
23017 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
23018 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
23019 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
23020 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
23021 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
23022 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
23023 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
23024 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
23025 based on the time during which we were active and not in
23026 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
23027 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
23028 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
23029 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
23030 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23031 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
23032 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
23033 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
23035 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
23036 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
23037 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
23038 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
23040 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23041 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
23042 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
23043 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
23044 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
23046 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
23047 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
23048 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23049 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
23050 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
23051 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
23052 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
23053 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
23054 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
23055 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
23056 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
23057 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
23058 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
23060 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23061 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
23062 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
23063 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
23064 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
23065 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
23066 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
23067 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
23068 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
23069 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
23070 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
23071 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23072 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
23073 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
23074 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
23075 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
23076 two-hop circuits are actually created.
23077 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
23078 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23079 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
23080 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
23082 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
23083 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
23084 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
23085 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
23086 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
23087 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
23088 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
23089 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
23090 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
23092 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
23093 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
23094 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
23095 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
23096 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
23097 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
23098 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
23099 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
23100 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
23101 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
23102 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
23103 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
23104 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
23107 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23108 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
23109 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
23110 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
23111 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23112 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
23113 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
23114 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
23115 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
23116 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
23117 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
23119 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23120 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23122 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
23123 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
23124 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
23125 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
23126 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23127 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
23128 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
23129 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
23131 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
23132 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
23133 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
23134 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23135 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
23136 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
23137 discovered by katmagic.
23138 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
23139 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
23141 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
23142 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
23143 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
23144 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
23145 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
23146 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
23147 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23148 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23149 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23151 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
23152 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
23154 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
23155 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
23157 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
23158 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
23160 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
23161 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
23162 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
23163 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
23164 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
23165 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
23166 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
23167 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
23168 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
23169 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
23170 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
23171 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
23172 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
23173 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
23174 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
23176 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
23177 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
23178 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
23179 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
23180 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
23181 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
23182 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
23183 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
23184 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
23186 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
23187 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
23188 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
23190 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
23191 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
23192 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
23193 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
23195 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
23196 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
23197 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
23198 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
23199 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23200 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
23201 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
23203 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
23204 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
23205 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
23206 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23207 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
23208 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
23210 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
23211 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
23212 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
23213 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
23214 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
23215 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
23216 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
23217 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23218 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
23220 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
23221 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
23222 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23223 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
23224 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23225 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
23226 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
23227 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
23228 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
23229 control-spec.txt said they were.
23231 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23232 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
23233 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
23235 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
23236 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23237 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
23238 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
23239 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
23241 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
23242 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
23244 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
23245 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
23246 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
23247 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
23248 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
23249 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
23250 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
23252 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
23253 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
23254 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
23255 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23256 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
23257 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
23258 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
23259 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
23262 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
23263 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
23264 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
23265 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
23266 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
23267 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
23268 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
23269 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
23270 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
23271 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
23272 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
23273 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23274 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
23275 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
23276 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
23278 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
23279 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
23280 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
23281 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
23282 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
23283 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23284 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23286 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
23287 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
23290 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
23291 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
23292 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
23293 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
23294 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23295 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
23296 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
23297 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
23298 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
23299 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
23300 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
23301 fixes part of bug 3407.
23302 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
23303 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
23304 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
23305 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
23306 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
23307 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
23308 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
23309 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
23310 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
23311 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
23313 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
23314 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
23315 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
23316 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
23317 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
23318 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
23319 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
23320 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23321 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
23322 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
23323 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
23324 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23325 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
23326 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
23327 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
23328 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
23329 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
23331 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
23332 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
23333 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
23334 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
23335 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
23336 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
23337 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23338 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
23339 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
23340 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
23341 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
23342 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
23344 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
23345 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
23346 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
23347 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
23348 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
23350 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
23351 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
23352 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
23353 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
23355 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
23356 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
23357 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
23358 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
23359 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
23360 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
23361 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
23362 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
23363 structures and defines in or.h for now.
23364 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
23366 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
23367 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23368 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23369 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23370 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
23371 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
23372 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
23373 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
23375 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
23376 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
23377 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
23379 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23380 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
23381 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
23382 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
23383 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
23384 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
23385 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
23386 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
23387 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
23388 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
23390 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
23392 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
23393 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
23394 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
23395 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
23396 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
23397 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
23398 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
23399 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
23400 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
23401 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
23403 o Documentation changes:
23404 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
23405 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
23407 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
23408 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
23409 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
23410 what should go in a patch.
23411 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
23413 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
23414 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
23415 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
23416 projects directory in svn.
23418 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
23419 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
23420 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
23421 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
23422 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
23423 hidden service usage.
23424 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
23425 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
23426 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
23427 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
23428 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
23431 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
23432 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
23433 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
23434 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
23435 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
23438 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
23439 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
23440 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
23441 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
23442 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
23443 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23444 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23445 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
23446 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
23447 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
23448 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
23449 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
23450 via application-level web tricks.
23451 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
23452 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
23453 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
23454 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
23455 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
23456 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
23457 send a body too). Since only server versions before
23458 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
23459 keep the workaround in place.
23460 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
23461 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
23462 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
23463 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
23464 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
23465 want to do it differently.
23466 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
23467 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
23468 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
23471 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
23472 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
23473 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
23474 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
23475 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
23476 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
23479 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
23480 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
23481 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
23482 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
23483 the rest of bug 1074.
23484 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
23485 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23486 Found by "piebeer".
23487 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
23488 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
23489 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
23490 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
23491 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
23492 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
23493 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23496 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
23498 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23501 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
23502 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
23503 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
23504 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
23505 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
23506 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
23507 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
23508 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
23509 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
23510 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
23511 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23513 o Packaging changes:
23514 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
23515 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
23516 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
23517 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
23518 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
23519 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23522 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
23523 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
23524 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
23525 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
23526 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
23528 o Major bugfixes (security):
23529 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
23530 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
23531 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
23533 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
23534 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
23535 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
23536 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
23537 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
23538 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
23539 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
23540 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
23542 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23543 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
23544 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
23545 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
23546 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
23547 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
23548 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
23549 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
23550 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
23551 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
23552 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
23553 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
23554 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
23555 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
23558 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23559 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
23560 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
23561 bug reported by doorss.
23562 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
23563 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
23564 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23565 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
23566 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
23568 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
23569 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
23570 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
23571 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
23572 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
23575 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23576 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
23579 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
23580 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
23581 Automake 1.7 or later.
23582 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
23583 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
23584 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
23585 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
23588 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
23589 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
23590 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
23591 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
23595 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
23596 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
23597 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
23598 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
23600 o Directory authority changes:
23601 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23604 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23607 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
23608 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
23609 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
23610 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
23611 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
23614 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
23615 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
23616 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
23617 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
23618 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23619 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
23620 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
23621 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
23622 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
23623 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23624 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
23625 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23626 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
23627 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
23628 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
23629 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
23630 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
23631 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
23632 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
23633 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
23634 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
23635 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
23636 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
23639 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
23640 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
23641 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
23642 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
23644 o New directory authorities:
23645 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
23649 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
23650 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
23651 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
23653 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
23654 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
23655 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
23656 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
23657 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
23658 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
23660 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
23661 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
23662 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
23665 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
23666 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
23667 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
23668 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
23669 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
23670 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
23671 Patch from mingw-san.
23674 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
23675 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
23676 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
23677 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
23678 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
23679 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
23682 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
23683 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
23684 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
23685 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
23686 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
23688 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
23689 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
23692 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
23693 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
23694 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
23695 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
23696 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
23697 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
23698 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
23699 their directory fetches over TLS).
23700 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
23701 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
23702 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
23703 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
23704 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
23705 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
23706 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
23707 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
23710 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
23711 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
23715 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
23716 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23717 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
23718 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
23719 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
23720 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
23721 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23724 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
23725 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
23726 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
23727 several minor potential security bugs.
23730 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
23731 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
23732 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
23733 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
23734 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
23735 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
23736 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
23739 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
23740 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
23742 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
23743 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
23744 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
23745 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
23748 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
23749 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
23753 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
23754 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
23755 customized patches to run/build.
23758 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
23759 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
23760 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
23763 o Major bugfixes (performance):
23764 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
23765 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
23766 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
23767 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
23768 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
23769 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
23770 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
23773 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
23774 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
23775 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
23776 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
23777 libraries in a security patch.
23778 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
23779 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
23780 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
23781 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
23785 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
23786 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
23789 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
23790 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
23791 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
23792 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
23793 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
23796 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
23797 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
23798 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
23799 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
23800 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
23802 o Directory authority changes:
23803 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
23807 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
23808 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
23809 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23812 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
23813 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
23814 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
23815 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
23816 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
23819 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
23820 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
23821 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
23822 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
23823 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
23824 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
23825 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
23828 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
23829 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
23830 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23831 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
23832 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
23833 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
23835 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
23836 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
23839 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
23840 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
23841 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
23842 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
23844 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
23845 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
23847 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
23848 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
23849 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
23850 in the Vidalia Settings window.
23853 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
23854 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
23855 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
23856 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
23857 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
23859 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
23860 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
23862 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
23863 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
23864 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
23867 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
23868 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
23869 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
23871 o New directory authorities:
23872 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
23874 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
23877 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
23878 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
23880 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
23881 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
23882 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23883 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
23884 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
23885 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
23886 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23887 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
23888 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
23889 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
23890 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
23891 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
23892 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
23893 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
23894 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
23895 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
23896 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
23898 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
23899 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
23900 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
23902 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
23903 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
23907 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
23908 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
23909 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
23910 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
23911 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
23914 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
23915 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
23919 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
23920 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
23921 part of patch provided by "optimist".
23924 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
23925 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
23926 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
23927 and confuse fewer users.
23930 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
23931 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
23932 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
23933 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
23934 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
23935 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
23936 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
23939 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
23940 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
23941 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
23942 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
23943 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
23944 other features and bug fixes.
23946 o Major features (clients):
23947 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
23948 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
23949 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
23950 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
23952 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
23953 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
23954 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
23955 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
23956 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
23957 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
23958 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
23959 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
23960 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
23961 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
23963 o Major features (relays):
23964 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
23965 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
23966 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
23967 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
23968 data. Found by Jacob.
23969 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
23970 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
23971 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
23972 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
23974 o Major features (hidden services):
23975 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
23976 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
23977 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
23978 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
23979 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
23980 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
23981 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
23982 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
23983 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
23984 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
23985 lookups more reliable.
23987 o Major features (path selection):
23988 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
23989 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
23990 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
23991 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
23992 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
23994 o Major features (misc):
23995 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
23996 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
23998 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
23999 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
24000 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
24001 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
24002 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
24003 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
24005 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
24006 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
24007 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
24008 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
24010 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
24013 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
24014 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
24015 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
24016 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
24017 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
24018 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
24019 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
24020 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
24021 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
24022 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
24023 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
24024 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
24025 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
24026 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
24027 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
24028 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
24029 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
24030 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
24031 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
24032 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
24033 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24034 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
24035 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
24036 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
24037 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
24038 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
24039 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
24040 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
24041 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
24042 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
24043 Implements proposal 148.
24045 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24046 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
24047 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
24048 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
24049 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
24050 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
24052 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
24053 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
24054 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
24055 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
24056 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
24057 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24058 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
24059 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24060 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
24062 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
24063 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
24064 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
24065 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
24067 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
24068 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
24069 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
24070 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
24071 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
24072 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
24073 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
24074 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
24075 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24077 o Major bugfixes (clients):
24078 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
24079 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
24080 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
24081 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
24082 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
24083 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
24084 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
24085 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
24086 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
24087 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
24088 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
24089 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
24090 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
24091 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
24092 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
24095 o Major bugfixes (relays):
24096 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
24097 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
24098 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
24099 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
24100 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
24101 patch by Sebastian.
24102 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24103 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24104 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24105 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
24106 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
24107 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
24108 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
24109 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
24110 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
24111 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
24114 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24115 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
24116 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
24117 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
24118 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
24119 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
24121 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
24122 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
24123 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
24124 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
24125 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
24126 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
24127 on a typical directory cache.
24128 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
24129 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
24130 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
24131 and may reduce fragmentation.
24133 o New/changed config options:
24134 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
24135 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
24136 Suggested by Lucky Green.
24137 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
24138 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
24139 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
24140 locked down these days.
24141 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
24142 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24143 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
24144 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
24145 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
24146 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
24147 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
24148 output to messages of warning and error severity.
24149 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
24150 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
24151 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
24152 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
24153 directory requests we should expect to see.
24154 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
24155 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
24156 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
24157 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
24158 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
24159 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
24160 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
24162 o Minor features (relays):
24163 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
24164 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
24165 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
24166 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
24167 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
24169 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
24170 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
24171 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
24172 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
24173 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
24174 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
24175 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
24176 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
24177 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
24178 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
24179 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
24180 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
24181 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
24183 o Minor features (directory authorities):
24184 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
24185 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
24186 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
24187 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
24188 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
24189 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
24190 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
24191 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
24192 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
24193 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
24195 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
24196 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
24197 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
24198 fingerprints with or without space.
24200 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
24201 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
24202 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
24203 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
24204 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
24205 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
24206 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
24207 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
24208 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
24210 o Minor features (bridges):
24211 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
24212 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
24214 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
24215 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
24218 o Minor features (hidden services):
24219 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
24220 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
24221 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
24222 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
24223 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
24224 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
24225 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
24226 faster after restart.
24227 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
24228 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
24230 o Minor features (build and packaging):
24231 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
24233 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
24234 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
24236 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
24237 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
24238 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
24239 entirely. Patch from coderman.
24240 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
24241 are built without support for deprecated functions.
24242 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
24243 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
24244 system to do it for us.
24245 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
24246 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
24247 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
24248 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
24249 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
24250 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
24251 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
24252 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
24253 the letter of C99's alias rules.
24254 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
24255 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
24256 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
24257 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
24258 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
24259 with log.h on Android.
24260 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
24261 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
24263 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
24264 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
24265 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
24266 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
24268 o Minor features (controllers):
24269 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
24270 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
24271 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
24272 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
24273 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
24274 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
24275 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
24276 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
24277 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
24278 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
24280 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
24281 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
24282 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
24283 been fetched and validated.
24284 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
24285 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
24287 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
24289 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
24290 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
24291 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
24292 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
24293 partway through and wants to catch up.
24294 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
24296 o Minor features (tools):
24297 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
24298 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
24299 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
24300 people find host:port too confusing.
24301 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
24302 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
24304 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
24305 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
24306 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24307 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
24308 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
24309 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
24310 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
24311 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
24312 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
24314 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
24315 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
24316 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
24317 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
24318 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
24320 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
24321 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
24322 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
24324 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
24325 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24326 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
24327 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
24328 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
24329 have already been marked for close.
24330 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
24331 memory performance during directory parsing.
24333 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24334 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
24335 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
24336 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
24337 done that for a long time.
24338 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
24339 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
24340 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
24341 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
24342 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
24343 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
24344 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
24345 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
24346 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24347 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
24348 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
24349 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
24350 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
24351 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
24352 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
24353 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
24354 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
24355 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
24356 because of a pending download.
24357 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
24358 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
24359 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
24360 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
24361 bug 820, reported by seeess.
24363 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24364 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
24365 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
24366 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
24367 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
24368 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
24369 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
24370 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
24371 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
24373 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24374 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
24376 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
24377 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
24378 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24379 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
24380 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
24381 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
24382 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
24383 of 0. Suggested by lark.
24384 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
24385 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
24386 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
24387 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
24388 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
24390 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
24391 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
24392 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
24394 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
24395 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
24397 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
24398 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
24399 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
24400 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
24401 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
24402 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
24403 rest, and don't automatically fail.
24404 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
24405 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
24406 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
24407 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
24408 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
24409 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24411 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
24412 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
24413 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
24414 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
24415 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
24416 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
24417 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
24419 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
24420 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24422 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24423 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
24424 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
24425 Workaround for bug 1024.
24426 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
24427 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
24428 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
24429 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
24430 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
24431 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
24432 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
24433 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
24436 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
24437 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
24440 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
24441 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
24442 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
24443 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
24444 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
24445 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
24446 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
24448 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
24449 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
24450 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
24451 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
24452 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
24453 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
24454 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
24455 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
24458 o Deprecated and removed features:
24459 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
24460 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
24461 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
24463 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
24465 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
24466 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
24467 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
24468 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
24469 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
24470 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
24471 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
24472 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
24473 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
24474 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
24475 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
24476 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
24477 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
24478 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
24481 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24482 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
24483 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
24484 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
24485 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
24487 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
24488 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
24489 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
24490 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
24491 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
24492 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
24493 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
24494 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
24495 actual mistakes we're making here.
24496 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
24497 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
24498 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
24499 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
24500 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
24501 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
24502 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
24503 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
24504 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
24505 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
24506 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
24507 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
24508 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
24509 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
24510 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
24513 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
24515 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
24516 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
24517 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
24518 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
24519 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24522 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
24523 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
24524 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
24525 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
24526 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
24527 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
24528 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
24529 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
24530 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
24531 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
24534 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
24535 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
24536 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
24537 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
24538 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
24539 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
24540 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
24541 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
24544 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
24545 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
24546 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
24547 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
24548 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
24550 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
24551 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
24552 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
24553 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
24556 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
24557 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24558 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
24559 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
24560 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
24561 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
24562 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
24563 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
24566 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
24567 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
24568 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
24569 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
24572 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
24573 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
24574 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
24575 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
24577 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
24578 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
24579 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
24582 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
24583 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
24586 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
24587 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
24588 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
24589 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
24590 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
24591 reported by "wood".
24592 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
24593 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
24594 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
24595 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
24596 identify a connection.
24597 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
24598 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
24599 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
24600 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
24601 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
24602 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
24603 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24604 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
24605 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
24606 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
24608 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
24609 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
24610 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
24611 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
24612 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
24613 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
24614 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
24617 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
24618 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
24620 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
24621 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
24622 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
24623 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
24624 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
24625 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
24626 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24627 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
24629 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
24630 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
24631 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
24632 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
24633 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
24634 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
24635 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
24636 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
24637 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
24638 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
24639 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
24640 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
24641 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
24642 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
24643 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24644 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
24645 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
24646 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24647 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
24648 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
24649 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
24650 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
24651 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
24652 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
24653 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
24654 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
24655 840. Patch from rovv.
24656 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
24657 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
24658 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
24660 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
24661 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
24662 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
24663 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
24664 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
24665 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
24666 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
24668 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24669 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
24670 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
24673 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
24674 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
24676 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
24677 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
24678 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
24679 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
24680 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
24681 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
24682 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
24683 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
24684 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
24686 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
24688 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
24689 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
24693 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
24694 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
24695 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
24696 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
24697 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
24698 variety of other issues.
24701 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
24702 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
24703 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
24704 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
24705 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
24706 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
24707 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
24708 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
24709 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
24710 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
24711 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
24712 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
24715 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
24716 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24718 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24719 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
24720 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
24721 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
24722 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
24723 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
24724 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24725 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
24726 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
24727 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
24728 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
24729 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
24730 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
24731 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
24732 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
24736 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
24737 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
24738 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
24739 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
24740 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
24741 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
24742 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
24743 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
24744 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
24745 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
24746 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
24747 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
24748 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
24749 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
24750 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
24751 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
24752 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
24753 list. It has been gone for many months.
24754 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
24755 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
24756 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
24759 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24760 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
24761 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
24764 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
24765 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
24766 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
24767 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
24770 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24771 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24772 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24773 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
24774 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
24775 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
24777 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
24778 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
24779 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
24780 pointed out by rovv.
24783 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
24784 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24785 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
24786 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24787 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
24788 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
24789 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
24790 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
24791 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
24792 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24793 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
24794 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
24795 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
24796 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24797 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
24798 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
24799 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
24800 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
24801 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
24802 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
24803 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
24806 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
24807 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
24808 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
24809 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
24810 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
24811 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
24812 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
24814 o New v3 directory design:
24815 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
24816 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
24817 network status document rather than each publishing their own
24818 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
24819 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
24820 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
24821 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
24823 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
24824 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
24825 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
24826 dannenberg (run by CCC).
24827 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
24828 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
24829 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
24830 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
24831 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
24832 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
24833 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
24834 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
24835 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
24836 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
24838 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
24839 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
24840 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
24841 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
24842 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
24843 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
24844 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
24845 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
24846 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
24847 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
24848 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
24849 certain censored countries by default again.
24850 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
24851 Tor's x509 certificates.
24853 o Implement bridge relays:
24854 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
24855 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
24856 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
24857 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
24858 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
24859 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
24860 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
24861 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
24862 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
24863 rather than "v2,v3".
24864 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
24865 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
24866 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
24867 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
24868 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
24869 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
24870 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
24871 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
24872 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
24873 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
24874 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
24876 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
24877 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
24878 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
24879 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
24880 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
24881 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
24882 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
24883 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
24884 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
24885 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
24886 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
24887 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
24888 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
24889 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
24890 bridges are functioning.
24891 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
24892 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
24893 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
24894 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
24895 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
24896 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
24897 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
24898 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
24899 knows that password. Unset by default.
24900 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
24901 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
24902 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
24903 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
24904 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
24905 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
24906 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
24907 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
24908 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
24909 and bridges@torproject.org.
24911 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
24912 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
24913 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
24914 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
24915 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
24916 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
24917 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
24918 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
24919 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
24920 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
24921 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
24922 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
24923 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
24924 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
24925 longer a completely silly thing to do.
24927 o Major features (relay usability):
24928 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
24929 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
24930 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
24931 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
24932 proposal 111 for details.
24933 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
24934 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
24935 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
24936 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
24938 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
24939 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
24940 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
24942 o Major features (directory authorities):
24943 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
24944 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
24945 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
24946 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
24947 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
24948 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
24949 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
24950 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
24951 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
24952 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
24953 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
24954 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
24955 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
24957 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
24958 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
24959 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
24960 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
24961 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
24962 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
24963 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
24964 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
24965 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
24966 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
24967 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
24968 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
24969 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
24970 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
24971 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
24972 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
24973 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
24974 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
24975 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
24976 general, controller, or bridge.
24978 o Major features (other):
24979 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
24980 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
24981 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
24982 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
24983 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
24984 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
24985 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
24986 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
24987 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
24988 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
24989 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
24990 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
24991 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
24992 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
24995 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
24996 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
24997 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
24999 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
25000 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
25001 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
25002 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
25003 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
25004 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
25005 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
25006 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
25007 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
25008 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
25009 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
25011 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
25012 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
25014 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
25015 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
25016 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
25017 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
25019 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
25020 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
25021 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
25022 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
25023 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
25025 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
25026 address maps to an internal address space.
25027 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
25028 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
25029 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
25030 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
25031 complements proposal 107.
25032 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
25033 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
25034 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25035 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
25036 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
25037 reported by taranis and lodger.
25038 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
25039 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
25040 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
25041 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
25042 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
25043 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
25044 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
25045 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
25046 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
25047 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
25048 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
25049 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
25050 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
25052 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
25053 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
25055 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
25056 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
25057 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
25058 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
25059 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
25060 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
25061 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
25063 o Major bugfixes (other):
25064 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
25065 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
25066 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
25068 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
25069 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
25070 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
25071 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
25072 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
25073 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
25074 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
25075 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
25076 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
25077 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
25078 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
25079 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
25080 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
25081 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
25082 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
25083 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
25084 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
25085 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
25086 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
25088 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
25089 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
25090 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
25091 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
25092 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
25093 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
25094 eat all of our bandwidth.
25095 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
25096 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
25097 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
25098 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
25099 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
25100 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
25101 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
25102 bug 688, reported by mfr.
25103 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
25104 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
25105 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
25106 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
25108 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
25109 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
25110 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
25111 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
25112 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
25113 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
25114 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
25115 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
25116 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
25117 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
25118 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
25119 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
25121 o Performance improvements (memory):
25122 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
25123 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
25124 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
25125 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
25126 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
25127 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
25128 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
25129 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
25130 memory fragmentation.
25131 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
25132 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
25133 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
25134 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
25135 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
25137 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
25138 of them were actually distinct.
25139 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
25141 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
25142 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
25143 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
25144 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
25145 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
25146 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
25147 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
25148 performance-intensive.
25149 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
25150 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
25151 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
25152 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
25153 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
25156 o Performance improvements (socket management):
25157 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
25158 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
25159 our allocated connection limit.
25160 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
25161 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
25162 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
25163 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
25164 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
25166 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
25167 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
25169 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
25170 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
25171 is interested in a given message.
25172 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
25173 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
25174 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
25175 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
25176 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
25178 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
25179 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
25180 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
25182 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
25183 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
25184 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
25185 they are the same).
25186 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
25187 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
25188 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
25189 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
25192 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
25193 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
25194 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
25195 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
25196 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
25197 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
25198 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
25200 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
25201 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
25202 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
25203 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
25204 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
25205 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
25206 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
25207 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
25208 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
25209 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
25210 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
25211 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
25212 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
25215 o Changed config option behavior (features):
25216 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
25217 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
25218 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
25219 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
25220 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
25221 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
25222 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
25223 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
25224 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
25225 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
25226 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
25227 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
25228 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
25229 and are reaching it.
25230 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
25231 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
25232 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
25233 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
25235 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
25236 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
25237 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
25238 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
25239 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
25240 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
25241 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
25242 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
25243 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
25245 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
25246 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
25247 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
25248 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
25249 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
25250 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
25251 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
25252 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
25254 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
25255 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
25257 o New config options:
25258 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
25259 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
25260 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
25261 running a test network on a single host.
25262 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
25263 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
25264 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
25265 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
25266 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
25267 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
25268 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
25269 the approved-routers file.
25270 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
25271 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
25272 v2 directory information.
25274 o Minor features (other):
25275 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
25276 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
25277 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
25278 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
25279 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
25280 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
25282 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
25283 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
25284 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
25285 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
25286 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
25287 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
25288 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
25290 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
25291 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
25292 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
25294 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
25295 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
25296 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
25297 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
25298 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
25300 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
25301 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
25302 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
25303 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
25304 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
25305 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
25306 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
25308 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
25309 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
25310 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
25311 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
25312 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
25313 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
25314 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
25315 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
25316 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
25319 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25320 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
25321 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
25323 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
25324 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
25325 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
25326 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
25327 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
25328 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
25330 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
25331 bandwidthburst values.
25332 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
25333 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
25334 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
25335 to mark all our entry points down.
25336 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
25337 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
25338 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
25339 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
25340 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
25342 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
25343 more often than they are allowed to appear.
25344 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
25345 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
25346 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
25347 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
25348 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
25349 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
25350 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
25352 o Controller features:
25353 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
25354 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
25355 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
25356 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
25357 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
25358 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
25360 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
25361 multiple controller passwords.
25362 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
25363 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
25364 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
25365 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
25367 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
25368 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
25369 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
25370 cookie authentication file, and config option
25371 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
25372 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
25373 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25374 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
25376 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
25377 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
25378 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
25379 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
25380 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
25381 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
25382 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
25384 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
25385 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
25387 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
25388 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
25389 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
25390 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
25391 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
25392 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
25393 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
25394 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
25395 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
25396 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
25397 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
25398 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
25399 report the value as a "minimum skew."
25401 o Controller bugfixes:
25402 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
25403 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
25404 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
25405 processes can't run us out of memory.
25406 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
25407 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
25408 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
25410 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
25411 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
25412 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
25413 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
25414 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
25415 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
25416 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
25417 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
25418 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
25419 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
25420 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
25421 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
25422 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
25423 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
25424 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
25426 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
25427 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
25429 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
25430 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
25431 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
25432 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
25433 WARN-severity events.
25435 o Portability / building / compiling:
25436 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
25437 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
25438 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
25439 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
25440 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
25441 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
25442 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
25443 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
25444 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
25445 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
25446 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
25447 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
25448 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
25450 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
25451 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
25452 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
25453 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
25454 Use this version consistently in log messages.
25455 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
25456 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
25457 partial results on small file reads.
25458 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
25459 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
25460 a directory. Fix from lodger.
25461 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
25462 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
25463 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
25465 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
25466 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
25467 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
25468 logging for the unit tests.
25469 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
25470 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
25472 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
25473 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
25475 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
25476 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
25477 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
25478 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
25481 o Logging improvements:
25482 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
25483 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
25484 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
25485 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
25486 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
25487 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
25488 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
25490 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
25491 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
25492 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
25493 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
25494 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
25495 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
25496 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
25497 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
25498 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
25499 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
25500 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
25501 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
25502 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25503 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
25504 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
25505 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
25506 Good in combination with --hash-password.
25507 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
25508 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
25510 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
25511 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
25512 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
25513 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
25515 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
25516 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
25517 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
25518 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
25519 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
25521 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
25522 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
25523 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
25524 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
25525 makes the log messages nicer.
25526 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
25527 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
25529 o Contributed scripts and tools:
25530 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
25531 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
25533 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
25534 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
25535 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
25536 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
25537 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
25538 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
25539 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
25540 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
25541 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
25542 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
25544 o Newly deprecated features:
25545 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
25546 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
25547 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
25548 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
25550 o Removed features:
25551 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
25552 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
25553 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
25554 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
25555 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
25557 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
25558 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
25559 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
25560 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
25561 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
25562 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
25563 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
25564 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
25566 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
25567 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
25568 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
25569 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
25570 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
25571 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
25573 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
25574 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
25575 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
25576 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
25577 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
25578 patch from Karsten Loesing.
25579 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
25580 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
25581 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
25582 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
25583 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
25584 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
25585 code), this assumption no longer holds.
25586 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
25590 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
25591 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
25592 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
25593 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25596 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
25597 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
25598 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
25599 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
25600 on network address.
25603 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
25604 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
25605 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
25606 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
25607 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
25608 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
25609 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
25610 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
25611 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
25612 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
25613 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
25614 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
25617 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
25618 rebuild our server descriptor.
25619 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
25620 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
25621 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
25622 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
25623 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
25624 nonstandard integer types.
25625 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
25626 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
25627 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
25628 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
25629 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
25631 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
25632 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
25633 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
25634 when they receive them.
25635 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
25636 This includes some 64-bit systems.
25637 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
25638 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
25639 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
25640 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
25641 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
25642 router_get_by_hexdigest().
25643 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
25644 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
25648 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
25649 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
25650 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
25651 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
25652 lists for a few hours each day.
25654 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25655 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
25656 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
25657 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
25658 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
25659 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25660 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
25661 rend_process_relay_cell().
25663 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25664 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
25665 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
25666 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
25667 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
25668 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
25669 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
25670 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
25672 o Major bugfixes (other):
25673 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
25674 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
25675 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
25676 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
25677 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
25678 circuit cannibalization).
25679 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
25680 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
25681 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
25682 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
25683 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
25684 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
25687 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
25688 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
25690 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
25691 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
25692 absent. Resolves bug 467.
25693 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
25694 a way to trigger this remotely.)
25695 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
25696 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
25697 were reporting the dir port.)
25698 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
25699 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
25700 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
25701 the future. Fixes bug 434.
25702 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
25704 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
25705 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
25706 the onion key from getting rotated.
25707 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
25708 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
25709 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
25710 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
25711 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
25712 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
25713 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25716 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
25717 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
25718 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
25719 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
25720 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
25723 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
25724 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
25727 o Major bugfixes (security):
25728 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
25729 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
25730 become more of a headache than it's worth.
25732 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
25733 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
25734 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
25736 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
25737 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
25738 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
25739 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
25740 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
25741 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
25743 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
25744 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
25745 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
25746 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
25747 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
25749 o Minor features (controller):
25750 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
25751 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
25752 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
25753 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
25755 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
25756 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
25757 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
25758 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
25759 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
25760 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
25761 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
25762 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
25764 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
25765 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
25766 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
25767 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
25768 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
25769 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
25770 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
25771 if we ran off the end of the list.
25772 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
25773 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
25774 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
25775 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
25776 every time we change any piece of our config.
25777 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
25778 encourage people using them to stop.
25779 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
25781 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
25782 servers to choose a circuit.
25783 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
25784 unparseable piece of it.
25787 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
25788 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
25789 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
25790 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
25791 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
25792 TorK, etc. Or worse.
25794 o Major security fixes:
25795 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
25796 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
25799 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
25800 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
25801 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
25802 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
25804 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
25805 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
25807 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25808 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
25809 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
25810 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
25811 routerlist while inserting a new router.
25812 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
25813 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
25815 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
25816 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
25817 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
25819 o Major bugfixes (security):
25820 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
25822 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
25823 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
25824 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
25825 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
25826 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
25827 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
25828 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
25829 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
25830 guard list unless we need to.
25832 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
25833 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
25834 don't get overused as guards.
25836 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
25837 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
25838 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
25839 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
25840 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
25842 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25843 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
25844 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
25847 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
25848 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
25849 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
25850 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
25851 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
25852 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
25853 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
25854 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
25857 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
25858 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
25859 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
25860 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
25862 o Directory authority changes:
25863 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
25864 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
25865 or use hidden services.
25867 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25868 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
25869 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
25870 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
25871 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
25872 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
25873 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
25874 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
25875 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
25878 o Major bugfixes (security):
25879 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
25880 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
25881 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
25883 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
25884 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
25885 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
25886 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
25887 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
25888 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
25889 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
25890 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
25891 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
25892 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
25895 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
25896 purpose=controller.
25897 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
25898 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
25900 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
25901 having a hard time downloading.
25902 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
25903 partial results on small file reads.
25904 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
25905 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
25906 the gaps in the store get very large.
25909 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
25910 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
25912 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
25913 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
25916 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
25917 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
25918 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
25919 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
25920 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
25921 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
25923 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
25924 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
25925 free speech on the Internet.
25927 o Major features, client performance:
25928 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
25929 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
25930 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
25931 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
25932 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
25933 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
25934 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
25935 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
25936 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
25937 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
25938 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
25939 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
25940 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
25941 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
25942 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
25944 o Major features, client functionality:
25945 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
25946 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
25947 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
25948 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
25949 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
25950 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
25951 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
25952 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
25953 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
25954 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
25955 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
25956 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
25957 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
25959 o Major features, servers:
25960 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
25961 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
25962 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
25963 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
25964 authenticated, so use with care.
25965 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
25966 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
25967 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
25969 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
25970 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
25971 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
25972 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
25973 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
25974 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
25976 o Improvements on DNS support:
25977 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
25978 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
25979 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
25980 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
25981 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
25982 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
25983 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
25984 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
25985 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
25986 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
25987 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
25988 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
25989 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
25990 lets you turn it off.
25991 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
25992 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
25993 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
25994 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
25995 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
25996 useful to the network.
25997 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
25998 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
25999 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
26000 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
26001 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
26002 our tests for DNS hijacking.
26004 o Improvements on reachability testing:
26005 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
26006 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
26007 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
26008 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
26009 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
26010 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
26011 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
26012 if their identity keys are as expected.
26013 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
26014 chews through many circuits before giving up.
26015 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
26016 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
26017 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
26018 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
26019 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
26020 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
26021 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
26022 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
26023 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
26024 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
26025 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
26026 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
26028 o Improvements on rate limiting:
26029 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
26030 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
26031 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
26032 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
26033 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
26035 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
26036 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
26037 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
26038 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
26039 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
26040 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
26041 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
26042 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
26044 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
26045 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
26047 o Major features, NT services:
26048 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
26049 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
26050 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
26051 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
26052 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
26053 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
26054 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
26056 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
26057 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
26058 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
26060 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
26061 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
26062 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
26064 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
26065 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
26067 o Directory authority improvements:
26068 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
26070 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
26071 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
26072 too much load to the exit nodes.
26073 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
26074 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
26075 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
26076 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
26077 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
26078 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
26079 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
26080 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
26081 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
26082 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
26083 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
26084 broken. Not used yet.
26085 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
26086 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
26087 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
26088 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
26089 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
26090 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
26091 non-versioning dirservers.
26092 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
26093 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
26094 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
26096 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
26097 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
26098 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
26099 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
26101 o Directory mirrors and clients:
26102 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
26103 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
26104 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
26105 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
26106 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
26107 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
26108 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
26109 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
26110 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
26111 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
26112 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
26113 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
26114 routers for even longer.
26115 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
26116 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
26117 caching HTTP proxies.
26118 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
26119 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
26120 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
26121 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
26123 o Major fixes, crashes:
26124 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
26125 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
26126 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
26127 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
26129 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
26130 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
26131 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
26132 stream is detached.
26133 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
26134 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
26135 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
26136 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
26137 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
26138 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
26139 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
26140 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
26141 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
26142 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
26144 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
26145 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
26146 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
26147 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
26148 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
26149 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
26150 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
26151 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
26152 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
26153 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
26154 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
26155 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
26156 could return an unnamed server instead.
26157 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
26158 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
26159 a more attractive target for compromise.)
26160 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
26161 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
26162 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
26163 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
26165 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
26166 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
26168 o Major fixes, other:
26169 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
26170 uptime in the descriptor.
26171 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
26172 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
26173 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
26174 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
26175 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
26176 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
26177 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
26178 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
26179 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
26180 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
26181 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
26182 our DirPort now, etc.
26183 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
26184 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
26185 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
26187 o New config options or behaviors:
26188 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
26189 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
26190 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
26191 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
26192 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
26193 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
26194 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
26195 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
26196 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
26197 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
26198 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
26199 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
26201 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
26202 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
26203 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
26204 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
26205 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
26207 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
26208 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
26209 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
26210 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
26211 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
26212 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
26213 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
26214 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
26215 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
26216 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
26217 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
26218 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
26219 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
26220 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
26221 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
26222 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
26223 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
26224 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
26225 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
26226 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
26227 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
26228 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
26229 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
26230 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
26231 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
26232 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
26233 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
26234 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
26235 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
26236 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
26238 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
26239 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
26240 your ORPort is set.
26243 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
26244 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
26246 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
26247 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
26248 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
26249 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
26251 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
26252 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
26253 whether the config options are bad or good.
26254 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
26255 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
26256 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
26257 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
26258 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
26259 result more than once.
26260 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
26261 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
26262 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
26263 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
26264 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
26265 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
26266 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
26267 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
26268 before we check for libevent.
26269 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
26270 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
26271 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
26272 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
26273 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
26274 recommendation system saner.)
26275 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
26276 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
26277 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
26278 now universal binaries.
26279 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
26280 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
26282 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
26284 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
26285 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
26286 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
26287 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
26288 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
26289 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
26291 o Minor features, controller:
26292 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
26293 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
26294 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
26296 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
26297 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
26298 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
26299 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
26300 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
26301 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
26302 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
26304 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
26305 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
26306 connected or resolved cell.
26307 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
26308 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
26309 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
26310 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
26311 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
26312 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
26313 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
26315 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
26316 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
26317 entry guard status as it changes.
26318 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
26319 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
26320 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
26321 watching for STREAM events.
26322 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
26323 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
26324 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
26325 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
26327 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
26328 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
26329 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
26330 working much like those for circuit events.
26331 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
26332 about the current status of a router.
26333 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
26334 a router's status has changed.
26335 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
26336 can tell which events and features are supported.
26337 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
26338 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
26339 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
26340 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
26341 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
26342 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
26343 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
26344 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
26345 for more information.
26346 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
26347 best guess to the user.
26348 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
26349 descriptor has changed.
26350 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
26351 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
26352 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
26354 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
26355 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
26356 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
26357 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
26358 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
26359 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
26360 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
26361 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
26362 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
26363 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
26364 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
26366 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
26367 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
26369 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
26370 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
26371 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
26373 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
26374 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
26375 the controller from learning about current events.
26376 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
26377 reported by Mike Perry.
26378 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
26379 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
26380 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
26381 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
26382 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
26383 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
26384 long nicknames where appropriate.
26385 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
26386 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
26388 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
26389 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
26390 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
26391 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
26392 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
26394 o Minor features, code performance:
26395 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
26396 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
26397 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
26399 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
26400 some profiles, but not others.)
26401 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
26402 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
26403 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
26404 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
26405 operations, for profiling.
26406 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
26407 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
26408 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
26409 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
26410 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
26411 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
26412 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
26413 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
26415 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
26416 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
26417 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
26418 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
26419 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
26420 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
26421 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
26422 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
26423 family lists conveniently.
26425 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
26426 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
26427 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
26428 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
26429 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
26430 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
26431 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
26432 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
26433 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
26434 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
26435 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
26436 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
26437 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
26438 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
26439 of it), is not therefore "up".
26441 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
26442 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
26443 what version a router is running.
26444 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
26445 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
26446 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
26447 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
26449 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
26450 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
26451 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
26452 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
26453 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
26456 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
26457 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
26458 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
26460 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
26461 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
26463 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
26464 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
26465 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
26466 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
26467 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
26468 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
26469 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
26470 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
26471 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
26472 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
26474 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
26475 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
26476 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
26477 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
26478 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
26479 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
26480 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
26481 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
26482 get one we don't recognize.
26485 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
26486 o Security bugfixes:
26487 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
26488 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
26489 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
26490 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
26494 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
26495 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
26496 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
26499 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
26501 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
26502 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
26503 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
26504 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
26505 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
26506 its circuits on demand.
26507 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
26508 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
26509 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
26510 connections more stable on average.
26511 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
26512 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
26513 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
26515 o Security bugfixes:
26516 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
26517 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
26520 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
26522 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
26523 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
26524 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
26525 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
26526 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
26527 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
26528 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
26529 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
26532 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
26534 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
26535 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
26536 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
26537 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
26538 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
26539 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
26540 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
26541 it can't resolve its hostname.
26542 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
26543 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
26544 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
26547 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
26548 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
26549 "extendcircuit" request.
26550 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
26551 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
26552 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
26553 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
26555 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
26556 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
26557 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
26559 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
26560 methods: these are known to be buggy.
26561 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
26562 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
26563 we don't recognize.
26566 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
26568 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
26569 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
26570 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
26571 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
26572 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
26573 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
26574 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
26575 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
26576 test reachability, so you won't publish.
26579 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
26580 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
26581 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
26582 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
26583 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
26585 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
26586 own server descriptor yet.
26589 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
26591 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
26592 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
26593 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
26594 make sure to test via one of these.
26595 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
26596 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
26597 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
26598 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
26599 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
26601 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
26602 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
26603 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
26606 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
26607 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
26608 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
26609 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
26610 directory authority.
26611 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
26612 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
26613 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
26614 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
26617 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
26618 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
26619 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
26621 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
26622 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
26623 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
26624 current guards when picking a new guard.
26625 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
26626 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
26627 when we had more than one pending.
26628 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
26629 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
26630 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
26631 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
26632 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
26633 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
26634 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
26635 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
26636 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
26637 debug the reachability problems better.
26639 o Log / documentation fixes:
26640 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
26641 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
26642 about protocol violations by others.
26643 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
26644 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
26645 about what happened to our old torrc.
26648 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
26649 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
26650 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
26651 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
26652 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
26653 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
26655 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
26656 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
26657 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
26658 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
26659 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
26660 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
26661 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
26662 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
26663 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
26664 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
26665 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
26666 on malicious huge inputs.
26668 o Security fixes, major:
26669 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
26670 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
26671 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
26672 misreading their logs.
26673 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
26674 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
26675 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
26676 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
26677 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
26678 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
26679 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
26680 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
26681 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
26682 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
26683 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
26684 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
26685 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
26686 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
26688 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
26689 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
26690 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
26691 firewall options forbid.
26692 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
26693 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
26694 can only proxy to certain destinations.
26695 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
26696 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
26697 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
26699 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
26700 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
26701 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
26702 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
26703 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
26704 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
26705 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
26706 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
26707 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
26708 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
26709 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
26710 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
26711 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
26713 o Security fixes, minor:
26714 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
26715 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
26717 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
26718 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
26719 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
26720 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
26721 if we've not heard of a server.
26722 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
26723 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
26724 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
26725 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
26726 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
26727 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
26728 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
26729 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
26730 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
26731 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
26732 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
26733 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
26734 aids some statistical attacks.
26735 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
26736 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
26737 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
26738 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
26739 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
26740 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
26741 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
26742 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
26745 o Packaging improvements:
26746 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
26747 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
26748 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
26749 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
26750 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
26751 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
26753 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
26754 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
26755 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
26756 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
26757 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
26758 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
26760 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
26761 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
26762 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
26764 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
26765 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
26766 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
26767 They are useless now.
26768 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
26769 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
26770 is reachable by you.
26771 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
26774 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
26775 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
26776 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
26777 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
26778 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
26779 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
26780 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
26781 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
26782 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
26783 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
26784 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
26785 and isolating attacks better.
26786 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
26787 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
26788 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
26789 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
26790 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
26791 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
26792 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
26793 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
26794 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
26795 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
26796 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
26798 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
26799 can answer v2 directory requests too.
26800 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
26801 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
26802 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
26803 mirrors still cache and serve it).
26804 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
26805 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
26806 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
26807 for clients and for servers.
26808 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
26809 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
26810 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
26811 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
26812 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
26813 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
26814 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
26815 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
26816 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
26817 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
26818 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
26820 o Other directory improvements:
26821 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
26822 fifth authoritative directory servers.
26823 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
26824 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
26825 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
26826 to hang up on them.
26827 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
26828 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
26829 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
26830 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
26831 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
26832 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
26834 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
26835 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
26836 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
26837 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
26838 connections more reliable.
26839 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
26840 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
26841 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
26842 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
26843 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
26844 we fail to connect).
26845 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
26847 o Controller protocol improvements:
26848 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
26849 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
26850 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
26851 applications without caring how our protocol works.
26852 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
26853 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
26854 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
26855 many bytes we've used in this time period.
26856 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
26857 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
26858 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
26859 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
26860 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
26861 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
26862 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
26863 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
26864 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
26865 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
26866 or "signal reload".
26867 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
26868 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
26869 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
26870 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
26871 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
26872 a router in its role as directory authority.
26873 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
26874 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
26875 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
26876 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
26877 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
26878 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
26879 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
26880 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
26881 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
26882 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
26883 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
26884 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
26885 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
26886 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
26887 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
26888 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
26889 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
26890 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
26892 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
26893 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
26894 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
26895 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
26896 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
26897 just tell them to go read their logs.
26899 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
26900 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
26901 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
26902 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
26903 try to be a bit more fair.
26904 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
26905 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
26906 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
26907 and we're using a default DirPort.
26908 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
26909 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
26910 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
26911 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
26912 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
26913 services faster on the service end.
26914 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
26916 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
26917 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
26918 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
26919 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
26920 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
26921 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
26922 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
26923 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
26924 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
26925 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
26926 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
26927 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
26928 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
26929 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
26930 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
26931 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
26932 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
26933 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
26934 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
26935 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
26936 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
26937 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
26938 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
26939 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
26940 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
26942 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
26943 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
26944 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
26945 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
26946 so we can be backward-compatible.
26947 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
26948 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
26949 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
26950 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
26951 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
26952 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
26953 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
26954 initial descriptor forever.
26955 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
26956 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
26957 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
26958 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
26959 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
26960 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
26961 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
26962 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
26963 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
26964 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
26965 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
26966 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
26967 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
26968 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
26969 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
26970 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
26971 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
26972 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
26973 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
26974 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
26975 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
26976 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
26977 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
26978 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
26979 ports that have changed.
26980 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
26981 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
26982 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
26983 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
26984 connections once a week.
26985 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
26986 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
26987 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
26988 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
26989 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
26990 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
26991 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
26992 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
26993 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
26994 able to discover them.
26995 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
26996 want to make it an NT service.
26997 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
26998 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
26999 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
27000 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
27001 memory leaks better.
27002 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
27003 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
27004 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
27005 statistics are now uint64_t's.
27006 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
27007 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
27008 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
27009 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
27010 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
27011 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
27012 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
27013 default ulimit -n is 1024.
27014 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
27015 and its existence is confusing some users.
27017 o Config option fixes:
27018 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
27019 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
27020 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
27021 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
27022 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
27023 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
27024 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
27025 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
27026 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
27028 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
27029 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
27030 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
27031 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
27032 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
27033 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
27034 it would silently ignore the 6668.
27035 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
27036 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
27037 silently resetting it to its default.
27038 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
27039 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
27040 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
27041 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
27042 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
27043 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
27044 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
27045 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27046 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27047 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
27048 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
27049 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
27050 Address config option.
27051 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
27052 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
27054 o Config option features:
27055 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
27056 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
27057 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
27058 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
27059 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
27061 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
27062 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
27063 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
27064 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
27065 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
27066 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
27067 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
27068 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
27069 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
27070 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
27071 in at least some cases.)
27072 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
27073 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
27074 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
27075 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
27076 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
27077 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
27078 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
27079 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
27080 even if we know they're jerks.
27081 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
27082 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
27083 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
27084 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
27085 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
27086 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
27087 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
27088 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
27089 because older Tors do not understand it.
27090 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
27091 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
27092 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
27093 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
27094 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
27095 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
27096 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
27097 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
27098 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
27099 unattached before we fail it?
27100 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
27101 at least this many seconds ago.
27102 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
27103 at least this many seconds ago.
27104 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
27105 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
27107 o Improved and clearer log messages:
27108 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
27109 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
27110 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
27112 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
27113 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
27114 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
27115 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
27116 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
27117 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
27118 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
27119 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
27120 temporarily unreachable.
27121 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
27122 Windows-style errno back.
27123 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
27124 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
27126 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
27127 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
27128 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
27129 exactly for this case.
27130 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
27131 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
27132 don't warn twice about the same name.
27133 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
27135 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
27136 it was self-testing that told us so.
27137 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
27138 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
27139 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
27140 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
27141 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
27142 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
27143 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
27144 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
27145 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
27146 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
27147 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
27148 established a circuit.
27149 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
27150 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
27151 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
27152 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
27153 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
27154 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
27155 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
27156 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
27157 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
27158 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
27159 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
27160 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
27161 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
27162 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
27163 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
27164 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
27165 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
27166 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
27167 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
27168 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
27169 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
27170 testing for reachability.
27171 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
27172 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
27174 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
27177 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
27178 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27179 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
27180 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
27182 o Other important bugfixes:
27183 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
27184 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
27185 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
27186 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
27188 o Backported features:
27189 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
27190 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
27191 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
27192 without getting overloaded.
27193 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
27194 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
27195 503's whenever they feel busy.
27196 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
27197 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
27198 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
27199 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
27200 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
27203 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
27204 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27205 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
27206 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
27207 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
27208 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
27209 too -- so detect and avoid this.
27210 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
27212 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
27213 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
27214 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
27215 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
27216 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
27217 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
27218 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
27219 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
27220 rendezvous circuits.
27221 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
27223 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27224 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
27225 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
27226 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
27227 advertising it because of hibernation.
27228 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
27229 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
27230 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
27231 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
27232 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
27233 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
27234 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
27235 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
27236 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
27237 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
27238 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
27239 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
27240 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
27241 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
27242 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
27245 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
27246 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27247 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
27248 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
27249 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
27250 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27251 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27252 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
27253 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
27254 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
27255 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
27256 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
27257 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
27258 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
27259 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
27262 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
27263 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27264 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
27266 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
27267 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
27270 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
27271 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27272 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
27273 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
27274 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
27275 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
27276 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
27278 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
27279 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
27283 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
27284 o New directory servers:
27285 - tor26 has changed IP address.
27287 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27288 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
27289 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
27290 pthreads libraries.
27291 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
27292 claims its dirport is 0.
27293 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
27294 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
27298 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
27299 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27300 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
27301 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
27302 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
27303 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
27304 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
27305 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
27308 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
27310 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
27311 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
27312 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
27313 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
27314 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
27315 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
27316 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
27317 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
27318 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
27320 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
27321 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
27323 o Assert / crash bugs:
27324 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
27325 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
27326 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
27328 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
27329 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
27330 TLS errors better in other situations too.
27331 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
27332 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
27335 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
27336 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
27337 duplicate ram over time.
27338 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
27339 reentry and threadsafeness.
27340 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
27341 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
27342 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
27344 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
27345 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
27346 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
27347 point at your Tor server.
27348 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
27350 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
27351 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
27354 o Protocol correctness:
27355 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
27356 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
27357 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
27358 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
27359 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
27360 to abandon partially built circuits.
27361 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
27362 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
27363 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
27364 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
27365 descriptors we just dropped.
27366 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
27367 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
27368 and to take errno into account where possible.
27369 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
27370 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
27371 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
27372 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
27374 o Robustness improvements:
27375 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
27376 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
27377 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
27379 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
27380 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
27381 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
27382 that will want high uptime circuits.
27383 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
27384 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
27385 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
27386 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
27387 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
27388 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
27389 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
27390 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
27391 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
27392 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
27393 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
27394 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
27395 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
27396 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
27397 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
27398 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
27399 for google.com" problem.
27400 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
27401 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
27402 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
27403 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
27404 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
27407 o Reachability testing.
27408 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
27409 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
27410 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
27411 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
27412 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
27413 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
27414 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
27415 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
27416 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
27417 already connected to them.
27418 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
27422 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
27423 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
27424 nickname+key are allowed.
27425 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
27426 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
27427 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
27428 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
27429 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
27430 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
27431 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
27432 have quite wrong clocks).
27433 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
27434 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
27435 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
27436 their descriptors are being rejected.
27438 o Efficiency improvements:
27439 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
27440 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
27441 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
27442 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
27443 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
27444 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
27445 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
27446 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
27447 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
27448 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
27450 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
27451 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
27452 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
27453 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
27454 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
27455 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
27456 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
27457 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
27458 of CPU time plus memory.
27459 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
27460 directory every time you regenerate it.
27461 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
27462 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
27463 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
27464 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
27465 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
27466 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
27467 lowercase when you first see them.
27470 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
27471 hidden services better.
27472 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
27473 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
27474 when we try to launch one.
27475 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
27476 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
27477 attempts to build a circuit.
27478 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
27479 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
27480 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
27481 normal web requests.
27484 - More Tor controller support. See
27485 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
27486 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
27487 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
27488 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
27489 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
27490 to make it easier to write controllers.
27491 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
27492 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
27493 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
27494 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
27495 new log event types.
27497 o New config options/defaults:
27498 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
27499 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
27500 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
27501 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
27502 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
27504 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
27506 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
27507 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
27508 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
27509 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
27510 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
27512 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
27513 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
27514 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
27515 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
27516 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
27517 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
27518 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
27519 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
27520 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
27521 required exit node for certain sites.
27522 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
27523 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
27524 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
27525 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
27526 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
27527 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
27528 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
27529 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
27530 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
27532 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
27533 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
27534 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
27535 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
27536 private-IP addresses.
27537 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
27538 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
27539 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
27540 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
27541 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
27542 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
27543 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
27544 is valid without actually launching Tor.
27546 o Logging improvements:
27547 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
27548 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
27549 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
27550 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
27552 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
27553 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
27554 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
27555 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
27556 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
27557 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
27558 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
27559 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
27560 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
27562 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
27564 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
27565 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
27566 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
27567 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
27568 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
27569 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
27571 o New contrib scripts:
27572 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
27573 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
27575 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
27576 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
27577 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
27578 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
27579 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
27580 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
27582 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
27583 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
27584 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
27585 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
27589 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
27590 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
27591 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
27592 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
27593 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
27594 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
27595 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
27597 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
27598 something more reasonable when first installing.
27599 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
27600 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
27601 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
27602 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
27604 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
27605 artificially capped at 500kB.
27606 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
27608 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
27609 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
27610 they could use instead.
27611 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
27612 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
27613 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
27614 the user asks you to.
27617 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
27618 rather than just rejecting it.
27619 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
27620 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
27621 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
27622 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
27623 rather than just "success" or "failure".
27624 - A more sane version numbering system. See
27625 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
27626 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
27627 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
27628 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
27629 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
27630 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
27632 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
27633 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
27634 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
27635 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
27637 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
27638 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
27640 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
27641 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
27642 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
27643 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
27645 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
27646 whether the server is hibernating.
27649 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
27650 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
27651 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
27652 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
27653 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
27657 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
27658 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27659 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
27660 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
27661 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
27664 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
27665 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27666 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
27667 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
27668 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
27669 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
27670 busy for more than 100 seconds.
27673 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
27674 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27675 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
27676 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
27677 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
27678 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
27679 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
27680 creating actual system users.
27681 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
27682 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
27686 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
27687 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
27688 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
27689 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
27690 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
27691 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
27692 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
27693 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
27694 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
27695 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
27696 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
27697 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
27698 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
27699 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
27700 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
27702 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
27703 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
27704 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
27705 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
27706 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
27707 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
27708 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
27709 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
27710 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
27711 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
27712 existing torrc files.
27713 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
27716 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
27717 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27718 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
27719 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
27720 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
27721 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
27722 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
27723 the win32 SYSTEM account.
27724 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
27725 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
27726 file descriptors available.
27727 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
27728 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
27729 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
27732 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
27733 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27734 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
27735 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
27737 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
27738 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
27739 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
27740 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
27741 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
27743 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
27744 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
27745 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
27746 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
27747 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
27748 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
27749 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
27750 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
27751 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
27752 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
27753 800kB/s of capacity.
27754 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
27757 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
27758 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27759 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
27760 need as much processor time.
27761 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
27762 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
27763 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
27764 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
27765 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
27766 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
27767 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
27768 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
27769 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
27770 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
27771 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
27772 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
27774 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
27775 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
27776 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
27777 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
27778 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
27779 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
27780 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
27783 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
27784 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
27785 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
27787 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
27788 style address, then we'd crash.
27789 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
27790 a dirserver is broken.
27791 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
27793 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
27794 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
27795 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
27797 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
27798 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
27799 name out of the warning/assert messages.
27800 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
27801 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
27802 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
27804 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
27805 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
27806 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
27808 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
27810 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
27811 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
27812 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
27813 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
27814 values at once couldn't work.
27815 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
27816 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
27817 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
27818 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
27819 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
27820 they can handle any number of routers.
27821 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
27822 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
27823 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
27824 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
27825 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
27826 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
27827 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
27828 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
27829 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
27832 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
27833 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27834 - Make hibernation actually work.
27835 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
27836 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
27837 don't use the stream status code.
27840 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
27841 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
27842 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
27843 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
27844 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
27845 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
27846 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
27847 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
27848 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
27849 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
27850 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
27851 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
27854 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
27855 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
27856 win32 socket errors better.
27857 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
27858 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
27859 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
27860 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
27862 - Make unit tests work on win32.
27864 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
27865 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
27866 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
27867 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
27868 right after sending the begin cell.
27869 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
27870 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
27871 exit nodes too. Oops.
27872 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
27873 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
27874 the user would get no response.
27875 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
27876 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
27877 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
27879 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
27880 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
27881 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
27882 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
27883 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
27885 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
27886 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
27887 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
27888 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
27889 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
27890 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
27891 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
27892 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
27893 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
27894 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
27895 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
27897 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
27898 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
27899 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
27900 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
27901 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
27902 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
27903 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
27904 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
27905 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
27906 so we don't see those messages days later.
27907 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
27908 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
27910 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
27911 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
27912 they ran out of file descriptors.
27913 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
27914 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
27915 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
27916 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
27918 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
27919 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
27920 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
27921 the ones we find in directories.)
27922 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
27923 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
27924 if you don't want it open.
27925 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
27926 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
27927 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
27928 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
27929 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
27930 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
27932 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
27933 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
27935 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
27937 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
27938 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
27940 o Features (circuits and streams):
27941 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
27942 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
27943 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
27944 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
27945 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
27946 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
27947 the user knows which one it's talking about.
27948 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
27949 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
27950 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
27951 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
27952 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
27953 from Geoff Goodell.
27954 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
27956 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
27957 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
27958 to fill the last cell completely.
27959 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
27960 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
27962 o Features (bandwidth):
27963 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
27964 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
27965 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
27966 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
27967 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
27968 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
27969 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
27970 your billing cycle starts on.
27971 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
27972 hibernation properties by
27973 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
27974 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
27975 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
27976 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
27977 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
27979 o Features (directories):
27980 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
27981 nickname to its identity key.
27982 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
27983 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
27984 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
27985 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
27986 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
27988 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
27989 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
27991 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
27992 will be able to get a directory.
27993 - Http proxy support
27994 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
27995 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
27996 be routed through this host.
27997 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
27998 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
27999 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
28000 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
28001 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
28002 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
28004 o Features (packages and install):
28005 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
28006 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
28007 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
28008 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
28009 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
28010 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
28011 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
28012 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
28013 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
28014 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
28017 o Features (ui controller):
28018 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
28019 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
28020 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
28021 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
28022 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
28023 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
28024 with the control port.
28025 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
28026 use in authenticating to the control interface.
28027 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
28028 configuration to torrc.
28029 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
28030 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
28031 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
28033 o Features (config and command-line):
28034 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
28035 not on the command line.
28036 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
28038 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
28039 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
28040 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
28041 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
28042 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
28043 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
28044 - New log format in config:
28045 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
28046 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
28047 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
28048 from their dirserver.
28049 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
28051 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
28052 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
28053 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
28054 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
28055 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
28056 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
28057 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
28058 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
28059 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
28060 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
28061 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
28062 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
28063 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
28064 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
28065 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
28066 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
28067 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
28068 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
28069 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
28070 than once per minute.
28072 o Features (other):
28073 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
28074 get back to normal.)
28075 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
28076 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
28077 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
28078 log more informatively.
28079 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
28080 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
28081 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
28082 from each other, to hinder linkability.
28083 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
28084 them act more like real nodes.
28085 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
28086 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
28087 1024) file descriptors.
28088 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
28091 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
28093 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
28094 clients/servers with an open dirport.
28095 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
28096 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
28097 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
28098 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
28099 intermittent connections.
28100 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
28101 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
28103 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
28104 in reporting stats locally.
28105 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
28106 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
28107 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
28110 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
28112 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
28113 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
28114 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
28115 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
28116 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
28117 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
28118 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
28119 list to decide who's running.
28120 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
28121 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
28122 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
28123 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
28124 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
28125 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
28126 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
28127 for pointing out this bug.)
28128 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
28130 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
28131 don't put it into the client dns cache.
28132 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
28133 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
28134 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
28136 o Protocol changes:
28137 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
28138 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
28139 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
28140 hadn't heard of before.
28143 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
28144 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
28145 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
28146 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
28147 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
28148 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
28149 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
28150 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
28151 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
28152 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
28153 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
28154 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
28155 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
28156 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
28157 - Directory caching.
28158 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
28159 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
28160 directory they've pulled down.
28161 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
28162 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
28163 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
28164 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
28165 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
28166 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
28167 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
28169 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
28170 This isn't used yet.
28171 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
28172 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
28173 clients don't use this yet.)
28174 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
28175 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
28176 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
28177 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
28178 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
28179 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
28180 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
28181 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
28182 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
28183 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
28184 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
28185 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
28186 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
28187 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
28188 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
28189 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
28190 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
28191 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
28192 - File and name management:
28193 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
28194 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
28196 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
28197 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
28198 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
28199 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
28200 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
28201 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
28202 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
28204 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
28205 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
28206 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
28208 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
28209 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
28210 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
28211 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
28212 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
28213 - New docs in the tarball:
28215 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
28216 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
28217 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
28218 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
28219 know you might want to get it verified.
28220 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
28221 kazaa, gnutella ports.
28222 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
28223 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
28224 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
28225 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
28226 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
28227 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
28228 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
28230 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
28232 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
28233 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
28235 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
28236 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
28237 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
28240 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
28241 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
28242 ask them to resolve the host "".
28245 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
28246 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
28247 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
28250 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
28251 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
28252 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
28255 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
28256 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
28257 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
28258 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
28260 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
28261 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
28262 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
28264 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
28265 hidden service per 15-minute period.
28266 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
28267 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
28268 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
28269 o Fixes for security bugs:
28270 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
28271 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
28272 a trusted dirserver.
28274 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
28275 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
28276 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
28277 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
28278 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
28279 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
28280 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
28281 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
28282 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
28283 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
28285 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
28286 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
28287 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
28288 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
28289 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
28290 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
28292 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
28295 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
28296 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
28297 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
28298 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
28299 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
28300 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
28301 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
28302 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
28303 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
28304 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
28305 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
28306 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
28307 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
28308 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
28311 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
28312 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
28313 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
28314 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
28317 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
28318 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
28319 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
28320 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
28321 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
28322 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
28323 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
28327 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
28329 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
28330 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
28331 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
28332 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
28333 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
28334 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
28335 if you decrypted them correctly.
28336 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
28337 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
28338 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
28339 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
28340 in-memory directories too.
28341 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
28342 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
28343 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
28344 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
28345 just close the circ.
28346 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
28347 - Better debugging for tls errors
28348 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
28349 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
28351 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
28352 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
28353 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
28354 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
28355 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
28356 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
28357 it tells you about the first error.
28358 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
28359 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
28360 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
28361 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
28362 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
28363 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
28364 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
28365 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
28366 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
28367 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
28369 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
28370 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
28373 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
28374 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
28376 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
28377 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
28378 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
28379 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
28380 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
28381 expect it to have a nickname.
28382 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
28383 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
28384 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
28385 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
28386 the dns farm to do it.
28387 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
28388 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
28390 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
28391 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
28392 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
28393 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
28394 but that aren't warnings
28397 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
28398 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
28402 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
28403 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
28404 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
28405 - include missing header fcntl.h
28406 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
28407 - deal with hardware word alignment
28408 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
28409 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
28410 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
28411 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
28412 by kill -USR1 currently.
28413 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
28414 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
28415 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
28418 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
28419 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
28420 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
28423 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
28425 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
28426 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
28427 - And fix a few endian issues.
28430 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
28432 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
28433 try that circuit again: try a new one.
28434 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
28435 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
28436 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
28437 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
28438 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
28439 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
28441 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
28442 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
28443 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
28445 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
28447 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
28448 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
28449 side isn't reading right then.
28450 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
28451 RecommendedVersions
28452 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
28453 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
28454 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
28457 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
28459 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
28460 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
28463 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
28467 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
28469 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
28470 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
28471 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
28472 connection is finished.
28473 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
28474 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
28475 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
28476 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
28477 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
28478 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
28479 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
28480 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
28481 rather than warn and continue.
28482 - Make --version work
28483 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
28486 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
28488 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
28489 knows it's working.
28490 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
28491 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
28493 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
28494 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
28495 so you can collect coredumps there.
28497 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
28498 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
28499 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
28500 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
28501 dns cache actually gets populated.
28502 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
28503 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
28504 end cell down it first.
28505 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
28506 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
28509 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
28511 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
28512 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
28514 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
28515 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
28516 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
28517 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
28518 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
28519 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
28521 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
28523 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
28524 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
28525 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
28526 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
28527 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
28528 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
28530 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
28531 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
28534 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
28536 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
28537 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
28538 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
28539 tor. It even has a man page.
28540 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
28541 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
28542 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
28543 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
28545 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
28547 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
28550 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
28552 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
28553 it, apt-getters. :)
28554 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
28555 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
28556 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
28557 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
28558 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
28559 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
28560 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
28561 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
28562 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
28563 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
28564 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
28566 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
28567 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
28570 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
28572 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
28573 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
28576 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
28578 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
28579 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
28580 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
28581 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
28582 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
28583 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
28584 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
28585 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
28586 logfile so you know it's working.
28587 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
28588 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
28591 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
28593 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
28594 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
28595 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
28598 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
28600 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
28601 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
28602 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
28605 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
28606 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
28607 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
28609 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
28610 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
28612 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
28613 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
28614 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
28616 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
28617 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
28621 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
28623 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
28624 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
28625 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
28628 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
28629 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
28630 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
28631 - Add port ranges to exit policies
28632 - Add a conservative default exit policy
28633 - Warn if you're running tor as root
28634 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
28635 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
28636 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
28637 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
28639 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
28642 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
28643 o Robustness and bugfixes:
28644 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
28645 really screw things up.
28646 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
28648 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
28649 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
28651 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
28652 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
28653 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
28654 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
28655 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
28656 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
28659 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
28662 - Change default loglevel to warn.
28663 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
28664 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
28666 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
28669 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
28670 o Robustness and bugfixes:
28671 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
28672 - to get ownership/permissions right
28673 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
28674 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
28675 pull down a directory again
28676 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
28677 causing server crashes
28678 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
28679 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
28680 - exit if bind() fails
28681 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
28682 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
28683 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
28684 - fix minor bias in PRNG
28685 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
28688 - Wrote the design document (woo)
28690 o Circuit building and exit policies:
28691 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
28693 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
28694 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
28695 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
28696 exists, rather than failing
28697 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
28698 which AP connections are standing by
28699 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
28700 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
28701 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
28703 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
28704 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
28707 - APPort is now called SocksPort
28708 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
28710 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
28711 hardcoded (for dirservers)
28712 - Reloads config on HUP
28713 - Usage info on -h or --help
28714 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
28716 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
28717 o General stability:
28718 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
28719 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
28720 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
28721 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
28722 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
28723 to take down the network when I approve a new router
28724 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
28727 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
28728 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
28730 o Autoconf improvements:
28731 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
28732 - Make install now works
28733 - create var/lib/tor on make install
28734 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
28735 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
28737 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
28738 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
28739 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
28740 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup