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 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
6 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
7 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
8 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
9 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
12 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
13 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
15 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
16 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
17 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
18 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
19 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
20 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
21 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
22 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
23 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
26 o Major bugfixes (relay):
27 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
28 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
29 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
30 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
31 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
32 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
33 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
35 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
36 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
37 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
38 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
39 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
42 o Minor features (dirauth):
43 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
44 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
45 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
46 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
47 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
48 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
49 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
50 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
53 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
54 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
56 o Minor features (geoip data):
57 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
58 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
60 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
61 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
62 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
63 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
64 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
65 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
66 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
68 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
69 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
70 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
71 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
72 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
74 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
75 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
76 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
77 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
80 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
81 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
82 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
83 stability or safety purposes.
85 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
86 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
87 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
89 o Major bugfixes (relay):
90 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
91 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
92 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
93 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
94 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
95 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
96 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
98 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
99 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
101 o Minor features (geoip data):
102 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
103 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
105 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
106 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
107 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
109 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
110 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
111 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
112 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
113 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
114 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
116 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
117 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
118 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
119 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
120 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
122 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
123 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
124 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
125 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
127 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
128 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
129 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
130 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
131 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
133 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
134 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
135 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
137 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
138 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
139 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
140 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
141 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
142 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
144 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
145 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
146 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
147 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
150 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
151 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
152 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
153 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
154 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
156 o Major bugfixes (relay):
157 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
158 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
159 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
160 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
161 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
162 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
163 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
165 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
166 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
168 o Minor features (geoip data):
169 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
170 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
172 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
173 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
174 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
176 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
177 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
178 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
179 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
180 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
181 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
183 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
184 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
185 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
186 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
187 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
189 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
190 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
191 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
192 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
194 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
195 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
196 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
197 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
198 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
200 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
201 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
202 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
204 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
205 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
206 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
207 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
208 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
209 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
211 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
212 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
213 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
214 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
217 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
218 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
219 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
220 should upgrade to this version.
222 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
223 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
224 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
225 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
226 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
227 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
229 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
230 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
232 o Minor features (geoip data):
233 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
234 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
236 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
237 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
238 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
239 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
241 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
242 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
243 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
244 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
245 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
246 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
247 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
248 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
249 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
251 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
252 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
253 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
256 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
257 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series
258 includes several major bugfixes from previous series and several features
259 including one massive new one: congestion control.
261 Congestion control, among other things, should improve traffic speed and
262 stability on the network once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more
263 details about it in proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
265 Below are all the changes of the 0.4.7.x series:
267 o Major features (congestion control):
268 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
269 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
271 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
272 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
273 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
274 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
276 o Major features (directory authority):
277 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
278 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
279 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
280 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
281 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
282 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
283 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
284 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
285 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
287 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
288 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
289 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
290 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
291 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
292 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
293 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
294 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
295 40363; implements proposal 333.
297 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
298 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
299 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
300 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
301 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
303 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
304 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
305 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
306 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
307 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
308 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
309 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
310 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
313 o Major bugfixes (client):
314 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
315 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
316 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
317 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
318 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
319 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
321 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
322 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
323 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
324 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
326 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
327 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
328 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
329 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
330 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
331 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
333 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
334 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
335 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
336 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
337 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
338 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
339 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
341 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
342 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
343 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
344 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
345 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
346 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
347 and not the DNS server itself.
348 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
349 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
350 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
351 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
352 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
353 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
354 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
356 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
357 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
358 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
359 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
362 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
363 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
364 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
365 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
367 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
368 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
370 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
371 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
372 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
375 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
376 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
377 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
378 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
380 o Minor features (compilation):
381 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
382 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
383 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
384 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
387 o Minor features (control port):
388 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
389 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
391 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
392 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
394 o Minor features (fuzzing):
395 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
396 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
397 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
399 o Minor features (geoip data):
400 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
401 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
403 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
404 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
405 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
406 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
407 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
408 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
409 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
411 o Minor features (portability):
412 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
413 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
416 o Minor features (testing configuration):
417 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
418 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
419 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
420 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
421 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
422 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
423 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
424 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
425 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
426 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
427 fix for ticket 40337.
428 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
429 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
430 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
432 o Minor features (testing):
433 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
434 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
437 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
438 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug
439 40500; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
441 o Minor bugfix (logging):
442 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
443 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
445 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
446 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
447 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
448 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
450 o Minor bugfix (relay):
451 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
452 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
455 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
456 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
457 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
458 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
459 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
460 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
461 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
462 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
464 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
465 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
466 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
467 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
470 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
471 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
472 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
473 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
475 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
476 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
477 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
478 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
479 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
482 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
483 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
484 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
485 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
486 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
487 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
488 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
489 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
490 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
492 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
493 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
494 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
496 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
497 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down
498 to info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix
501 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
502 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
503 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
504 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
505 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
507 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
508 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
509 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
510 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
511 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
512 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
514 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
515 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
516 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
517 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
520 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
521 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
522 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
524 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
525 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
526 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
527 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
528 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
529 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
530 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
531 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
533 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
534 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
535 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
536 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
538 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
539 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
540 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
541 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
542 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
543 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
544 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
545 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
546 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
548 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
549 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
550 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
551 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
553 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
554 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
555 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
556 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
559 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
560 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
561 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
562 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
563 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
565 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
566 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
567 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
568 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
569 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
570 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
571 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
572 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
573 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
575 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
576 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
577 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
578 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
580 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
581 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
582 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
583 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
585 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
586 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
587 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
588 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
589 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
590 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
591 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
592 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
593 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
595 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
596 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
597 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
598 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
599 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
600 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
602 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
603 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
604 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
605 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
606 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
608 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
609 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
610 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
611 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
612 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
614 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
615 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
616 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
617 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
618 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
620 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
621 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
622 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
623 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
625 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
626 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
627 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
629 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
630 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
631 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
632 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
633 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
635 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
636 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
637 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
638 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
639 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
641 o Code simplification and refactoring:
642 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
643 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
644 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
645 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
648 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
649 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
651 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
652 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
653 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
654 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
655 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
656 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
659 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
662 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
663 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
664 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
666 o Documentation (man, relay):
667 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
668 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
670 o Testing (CI, chutney):
671 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
672 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
676 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
677 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
678 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
680 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
681 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
683 o Minor features (geoip data):
684 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
685 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
687 o Minor bugfix (logging):
688 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
689 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
691 o Minor bugfix (relay):
692 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
693 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
696 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
697 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
698 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
701 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
702 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
703 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
704 See below for more details.
706 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
707 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
708 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
709 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
710 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
712 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
713 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
714 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
717 o Minor features (compilation):
718 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
719 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
720 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
721 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
724 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
725 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
727 o Minor features (geoip data):
728 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
729 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
731 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
732 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
733 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
734 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
735 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
737 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
738 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
739 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
740 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
741 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
743 o Documentation (man, relay):
744 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
745 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
748 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
749 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
750 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
753 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
754 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
755 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
756 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
757 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
758 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
759 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
761 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
762 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
765 o Minor features (testing):
766 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
767 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
768 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
769 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
770 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
771 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
772 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
773 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
774 fix for ticket 40337.
775 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
776 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
777 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
779 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
780 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
781 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
782 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
783 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
784 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
785 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
786 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
788 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
789 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
790 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
792 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
793 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
794 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
795 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
796 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
799 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
800 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
801 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
802 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
803 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
804 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
807 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
808 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
809 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
810 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
811 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
812 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
813 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
816 o Major feature (onion service v2):
817 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
818 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
819 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
820 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
822 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
823 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
824 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
825 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
827 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
828 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
829 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
830 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
832 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
833 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
836 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
837 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
838 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
839 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
840 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
842 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
843 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
844 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
845 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
846 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
847 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
848 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
849 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
850 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
851 fix for ticket 40337.
852 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
853 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
854 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
856 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
857 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
858 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
860 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
861 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
862 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
863 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
864 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
865 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
867 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
868 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
869 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
870 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
871 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
874 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
875 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
876 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
877 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
878 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
880 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
881 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
882 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
883 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
884 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
885 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
888 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
889 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
890 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
891 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
892 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
893 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
894 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
897 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
898 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
899 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
900 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
901 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
903 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
904 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
905 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
906 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
908 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
909 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
910 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
911 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
913 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
914 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
917 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
918 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
919 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
920 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
921 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
925 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
926 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
927 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
928 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
929 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
931 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
932 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
933 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
934 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
935 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
936 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
937 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
940 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
941 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
943 o Minor features (geoip data):
944 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
945 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
947 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
948 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
949 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
951 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
952 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
953 for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
955 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
956 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
957 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
959 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
960 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
961 order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
962 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
964 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
965 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
966 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
967 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
968 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
969 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
970 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
973 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
974 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
975 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
976 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
977 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
979 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
980 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
981 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
982 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
983 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
984 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
985 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
988 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
989 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
991 o Minor features (geoip data):
992 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
993 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
995 o Minor features (testing):
996 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
997 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
999 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1000 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1001 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1003 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1004 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1005 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1007 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1008 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1009 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1010 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1011 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1012 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1013 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1015 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1016 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
1017 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1020 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1021 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1022 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1023 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1024 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1026 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1027 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1028 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1029 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1030 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1031 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1032 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1035 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1036 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1038 o Minor features (geoip data):
1039 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1040 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1042 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1043 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1044 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1046 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1047 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1048 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1051 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1052 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1053 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1054 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1055 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1057 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1058 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1059 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1060 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1061 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1062 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1064 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1065 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1066 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1070 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
1071 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
1072 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
1073 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
1074 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
1077 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
1078 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
1079 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
1080 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1082 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
1083 0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1085 o Major bugfixes (security):
1086 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1087 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1088 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1089 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1090 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1091 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1093 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
1094 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1095 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1096 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1097 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1098 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1099 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1100 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1102 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1103 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1104 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1105 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1106 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1107 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1108 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1109 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1110 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1111 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1112 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1113 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1114 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1115 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1116 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1118 o Major features (control port, onion services):
1119 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
1120 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
1121 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
1124 o Major features (directory authority):
1125 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
1126 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
1127 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
1128 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1130 o Major features (metrics):
1131 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
1132 documents. This information is controlled with the
1133 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
1134 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
1135 328; closes ticket 40222.
1137 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
1138 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
1139 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
1141 o Major features (statistics):
1142 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
1143 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
1144 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
1146 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
1147 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
1148 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
1149 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
1150 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
1151 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
1152 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
1153 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
1154 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
1155 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
1156 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
1157 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
1158 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
1159 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
1160 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
1161 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
1162 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1163 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
1164 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
1165 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
1168 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
1169 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
1170 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
1171 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1173 o Minor features (bridge):
1174 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1175 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1176 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1178 o Minor features (build system):
1179 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
1180 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
1181 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1183 o Minor features (client):
1184 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
1185 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
1186 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
1187 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
1189 o Minor features (command line):
1190 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
1191 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
1194 o Minor features (command-line interface):
1195 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
1196 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
1197 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
1198 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
1199 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
1200 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
1201 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
1202 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
1203 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
1204 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1206 o Minor features (compatibility):
1207 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1208 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1209 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1212 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
1213 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
1214 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1216 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1217 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
1218 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
1219 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1220 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
1221 control over whether the client can become dormant from
1222 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1224 o Minor features (geoip data):
1225 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1226 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1228 o Minor features (logging):
1229 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
1230 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
1232 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
1233 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
1234 any). Closes ticket 40308.
1235 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
1236 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
1237 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1239 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
1240 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1241 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1242 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1243 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1245 o Minor features (onion services):
1246 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
1247 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
1249 o Minor features (performance, windows):
1250 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
1251 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
1252 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
1253 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1255 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1256 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
1257 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
1259 o Minor features (tests, portability):
1260 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
1261 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
1264 o Minor features (vote document):
1265 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
1266 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
1267 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
1269 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1270 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
1271 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
1272 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1274 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1275 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
1276 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
1277 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
1280 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1281 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
1282 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
1283 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1285 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
1286 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1287 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1288 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1289 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1291 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1292 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1293 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1294 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1295 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1296 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1299 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
1300 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
1301 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
1302 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
1303 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
1304 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
1306 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1307 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
1308 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
1309 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
1310 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1312 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
1313 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
1314 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
1315 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
1316 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1318 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1319 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
1320 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1322 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1323 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1324 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1327 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
1328 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
1329 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
1330 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1332 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1333 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1334 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
1335 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1337 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
1338 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1339 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1342 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1343 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
1344 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
1345 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1348 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
1349 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
1350 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
1351 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
1352 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
1353 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
1354 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
1355 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
1356 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
1357 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
1360 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
1361 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
1362 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
1364 o Documentation (manual):
1365 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
1367 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
1368 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
1369 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
1370 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
1372 o Removed features (relay):
1373 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
1374 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
1375 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
1376 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
1377 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
1380 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
1381 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1382 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1383 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1384 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1386 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1387 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1388 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1389 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1390 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1391 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1392 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1394 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1395 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1396 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1397 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1398 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1399 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1400 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1401 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1403 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1404 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1405 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1406 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1407 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1408 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1409 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1410 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1411 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1412 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1413 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1414 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1415 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1416 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1417 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1419 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1420 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1421 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1422 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1425 o Minor features (geoip data):
1426 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1427 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1429 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1430 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1431 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1432 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1433 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1434 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1437 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1438 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1439 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1443 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
1444 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1445 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1446 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1447 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1449 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
1450 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
1451 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
1453 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1454 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1455 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1456 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1457 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1458 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1459 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1461 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1462 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1463 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1464 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1465 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1466 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1467 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1468 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1470 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1471 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1472 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1473 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1474 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1475 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1476 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1477 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1478 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1479 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1480 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1481 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1482 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1483 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1484 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1486 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1487 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1488 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1489 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1492 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1493 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1494 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1496 o Minor features (geoip data):
1497 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1498 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1500 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1501 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1502 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1503 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1505 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1506 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1507 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1510 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
1511 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
1512 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1513 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1514 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1516 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1517 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1518 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1519 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1520 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1521 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1522 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1524 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1525 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1526 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1527 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1528 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1529 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1530 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1531 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1533 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1534 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1535 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1536 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1537 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1538 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1539 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1540 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1541 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1542 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1543 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1544 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1545 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1546 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1547 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1549 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1550 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1551 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1553 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1554 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1555 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1556 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1559 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1560 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1561 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1563 o Minor features (geoip data):
1564 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1565 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1568 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
1569 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
1570 from the 0.4.6.x series.
1572 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1573 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
1574 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
1575 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
1576 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
1578 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1579 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
1580 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
1582 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1583 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
1584 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
1586 o Minor features (geoip data):
1587 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1588 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
1590 o Minor features (onion services):
1591 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
1592 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
1593 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
1595 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1596 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
1597 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
1598 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
1600 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1601 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
1602 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
1603 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1605 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1606 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
1607 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
1608 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
1610 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1611 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
1612 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1614 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
1615 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
1616 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
1617 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1619 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
1620 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
1621 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
1622 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1624 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
1625 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1626 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1630 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
1631 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1632 in earlier versions of Tor.
1634 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1635 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1636 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1637 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1638 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1639 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1640 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1641 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1642 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1645 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1646 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1649 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1650 compatibility issue.
1652 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1653 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1654 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1655 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1656 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1657 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1658 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1659 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1660 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1663 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1664 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1665 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1666 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1667 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1668 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1669 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1670 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1673 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1674 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1675 Closes ticket 40309.
1678 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
1679 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
1680 in earlier versions of Tor.
1682 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1683 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1684 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1685 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1686 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1687 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1688 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1689 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1690 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1693 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1694 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1697 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
1698 compatibility issue.
1700 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1701 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1702 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1703 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1704 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1705 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1706 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1707 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1708 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1711 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1712 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1713 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1714 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1715 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1716 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1717 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1718 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1721 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
1722 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1723 Closes ticket 40309.
1726 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
1727 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
1730 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
1731 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
1732 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
1733 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
1734 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
1735 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
1736 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
1737 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
1738 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
1741 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
1742 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
1745 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
1746 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
1748 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1749 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
1750 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
1751 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
1752 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1753 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
1754 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
1755 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
1756 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
1759 o Minor features (geoip data):
1760 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
1761 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
1762 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
1763 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
1764 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
1765 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
1766 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
1769 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
1770 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
1771 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
1772 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
1773 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
1775 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
1776 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
1777 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
1779 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
1780 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
1781 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
1782 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
1783 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1785 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1786 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
1787 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1789 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1790 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
1791 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1793 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1794 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
1795 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1797 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1798 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
1799 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1800 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
1801 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
1802 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
1803 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
1804 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
1806 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
1807 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
1808 Closes ticket 40309.
1811 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
1812 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
1813 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
1814 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
1815 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
1816 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
1817 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
1818 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
1819 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
1820 welcoming approach to growing our community.
1822 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
1823 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
1824 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
1825 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
1826 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
1827 smaller features and bugfixes.
1829 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
1830 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1832 o Major features (build):
1833 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
1834 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
1835 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
1836 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
1837 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
1839 o Major features (metrics):
1840 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
1841 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
1842 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
1843 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
1844 information and security considerations.
1846 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
1847 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
1848 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
1849 Closes ticket 33233.
1850 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
1851 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
1852 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
1853 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
1854 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
1855 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
1856 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
1857 use. Closes ticket 33220.
1858 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
1859 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
1860 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
1861 Closes ticket 34067.
1863 o Major features (tracing):
1864 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
1865 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
1866 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
1867 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
1868 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
1870 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
1871 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
1872 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
1873 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
1874 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1876 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
1877 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
1878 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
1879 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
1880 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
1881 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
1882 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1884 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
1885 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
1886 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
1887 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
1888 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
1889 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
1891 o Minor features (address discovery):
1892 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
1893 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
1894 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
1895 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
1897 o Minor features (admin tools):
1898 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
1899 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
1900 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
1903 o Minor features (authority, logging):
1904 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
1905 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
1906 Closes ticket 40245.
1908 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1909 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
1910 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
1911 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
1912 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
1913 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
1915 o Minor features (build):
1916 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
1917 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
1918 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
1919 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
1920 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
1922 o Minor features (configuration):
1923 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
1924 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1925 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
1926 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
1927 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
1928 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1930 o Minor features (control port):
1931 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
1932 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
1933 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
1934 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
1936 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
1937 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
1938 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
1941 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
1942 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
1943 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
1944 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
1945 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
1946 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
1947 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1949 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1950 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
1951 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
1953 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
1954 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
1955 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1956 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
1957 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
1958 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
1959 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
1960 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
1961 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
1962 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
1963 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
1965 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
1966 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
1967 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
1968 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
1970 o Minor features (documentation):
1971 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
1972 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
1973 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
1975 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
1976 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
1977 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
1978 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1980 o Minor features (heartbeat):
1981 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
1982 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
1984 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
1985 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
1986 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1988 o Minor features (logging):
1989 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
1990 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
1991 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
1992 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
1993 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
1994 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
1996 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
1997 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
1998 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
1999 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
2001 o Minor features (onion services):
2002 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
2003 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
2004 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2006 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2007 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
2008 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
2009 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
2010 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
2011 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
2013 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2014 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
2015 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
2016 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
2017 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
2019 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
2020 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
2021 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
2022 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
2023 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
2024 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
2025 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
2027 o Minor features (relay):
2028 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
2029 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
2030 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
2031 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
2032 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
2033 Closes ticket 34137.
2035 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
2036 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
2037 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
2040 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
2041 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
2042 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
2043 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
2044 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
2045 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
2046 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
2047 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
2048 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
2050 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
2051 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
2053 o Minor features (safety):
2054 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
2055 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
2058 o Minor features (specification update):
2059 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
2060 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
2061 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
2063 o Minor features (state management):
2064 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
2065 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
2066 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
2067 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
2068 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
2070 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
2071 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
2072 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
2073 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
2074 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
2076 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
2077 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
2078 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
2080 o Minor features (testing configuration):
2081 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
2082 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
2083 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
2084 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
2086 o Minor features (testing):
2087 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
2088 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2090 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2091 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
2092 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
2093 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
2095 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
2096 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
2097 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2098 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
2099 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
2100 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
2101 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
2102 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
2103 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2105 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
2106 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
2107 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
2108 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
2109 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
2110 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2112 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2113 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2114 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2115 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2116 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
2117 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
2120 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2121 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
2122 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
2123 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
2124 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
2125 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
2128 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2129 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
2130 when a stream is attached with the purpose
2131 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
2132 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2134 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
2135 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
2136 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
2137 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2139 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2140 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2141 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2142 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2143 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2144 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2145 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
2146 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
2148 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
2149 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
2150 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2151 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
2152 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
2153 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
2154 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
2155 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
2158 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2159 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
2160 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
2161 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2163 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
2164 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
2165 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
2166 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2167 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
2168 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
2169 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2171 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
2172 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
2173 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
2174 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
2175 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
2176 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2178 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
2179 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
2180 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2182 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
2183 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
2184 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2185 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
2186 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
2187 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
2188 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
2189 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2191 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2192 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
2193 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
2194 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
2195 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
2196 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
2197 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
2198 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
2199 Closes ticket 34200.
2200 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
2201 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
2202 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
2203 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
2204 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
2205 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
2206 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
2208 - Split implementation of several command line options from
2209 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
2210 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
2211 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
2212 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
2213 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
2216 o Deprecated features:
2217 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
2218 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
2219 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
2222 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
2223 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
2226 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
2227 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
2228 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
2229 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
2231 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
2232 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
2234 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
2235 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
2236 directory. Closes part of 40139.
2237 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
2238 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
2242 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
2243 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2245 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
2246 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
2247 31699; Patch by @bduszel
2249 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
2250 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
2251 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
2252 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
2253 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
2255 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
2256 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
2257 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
2258 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
2259 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
2261 o Documentation (manual page):
2262 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
2263 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
2264 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
2265 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
2267 o Documentation (tracing):
2268 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
2269 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
2271 o Removed features (controller):
2272 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
2273 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
2276 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2277 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2278 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2279 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2280 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2282 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2283 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2284 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2285 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2286 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2289 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2290 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2291 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2292 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2295 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2296 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2297 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2298 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2300 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2301 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2302 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2303 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2304 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2306 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2307 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2308 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2309 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2310 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2311 weasel for diagnosing this.
2313 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2314 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2315 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2316 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2317 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2318 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2319 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2321 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2322 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2323 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2324 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2326 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2327 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2328 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2329 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2331 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2332 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2333 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2334 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2335 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2336 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2337 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2339 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2340 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2343 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
2344 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2345 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2346 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2347 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2349 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
2350 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
2352 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2353 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2354 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2355 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2356 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2359 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2360 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2361 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2362 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2363 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2365 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2366 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2367 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2368 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2371 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2372 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2373 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2374 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2376 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2377 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2378 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2379 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2380 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2382 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2383 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2384 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2385 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2386 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2387 weasel for diagnosing this.
2389 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2390 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2391 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2392 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2393 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2394 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2395 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2397 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2398 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2399 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2401 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2402 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2403 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2404 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2406 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2407 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2408 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2409 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2411 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2412 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2413 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2414 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2415 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2416 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2417 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2419 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2420 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2423 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
2424 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2425 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2426 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2427 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2429 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2430 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2431 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2432 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2433 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2436 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2437 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2438 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2439 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2440 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2442 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2443 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2444 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2445 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2448 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2449 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2450 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2451 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2453 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2454 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2455 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2456 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2457 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2459 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2460 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2461 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2462 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2463 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2464 weasel for diagnosing this.
2466 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2467 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2468 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2469 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2470 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2471 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2472 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2474 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2475 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2476 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2478 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2479 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2480 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2481 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2483 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2484 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2485 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2486 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2488 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2489 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2490 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2491 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2493 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2494 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2497 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
2498 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
2499 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
2500 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
2501 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
2502 intended for a different relay.
2504 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2505 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2506 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2507 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2508 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2509 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2510 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2512 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2513 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
2514 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
2515 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
2516 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
2517 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
2518 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
2519 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
2520 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
2521 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
2522 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
2524 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2525 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2526 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2527 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2528 closes ticket 40133.
2530 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2531 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2532 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2534 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2535 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2536 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2538 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2539 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
2540 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
2541 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2542 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2543 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2545 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2546 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2547 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2549 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2550 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2551 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2554 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2555 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2556 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2557 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2560 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
2561 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2562 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2563 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2564 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2566 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
2567 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
2568 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
2571 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2572 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2573 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2574 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2576 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2577 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2578 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2579 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2580 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2581 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2582 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2584 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2585 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2586 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2587 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2588 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2591 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2592 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2593 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2594 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2595 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2596 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2598 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2599 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2600 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2601 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2602 closes ticket 40133.
2604 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2605 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2606 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2607 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2609 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2610 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2611 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2613 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2614 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2615 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2617 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2618 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2619 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2620 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2621 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2623 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2624 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2625 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2627 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2628 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2629 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2630 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2631 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2632 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2633 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2635 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2636 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2637 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2640 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2641 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2642 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2643 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2644 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2645 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2648 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2649 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2650 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2651 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2653 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2654 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2655 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2656 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2658 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2659 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2660 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2662 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2663 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2666 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2667 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2668 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2669 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2670 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2671 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2672 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
2675 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
2676 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
2677 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
2678 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
2679 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
2681 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2682 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2683 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2684 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2686 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2687 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
2688 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
2689 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
2690 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
2691 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
2692 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
2694 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2695 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2696 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2697 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2698 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2701 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2702 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2703 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2704 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2705 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2706 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2708 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
2709 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
2710 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
2711 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
2713 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2714 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
2715 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
2716 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
2717 closes ticket 40133.
2719 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2720 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2721 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2722 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2724 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2725 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
2726 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
2728 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
2729 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
2730 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2732 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2733 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
2734 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
2735 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
2736 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2738 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2739 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
2740 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
2742 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2743 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
2744 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
2745 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
2746 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
2747 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
2748 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2750 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
2751 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
2752 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2755 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
2756 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2757 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2758 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2759 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2760 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2763 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2764 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2765 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2766 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2768 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
2769 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2770 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2771 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2773 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
2774 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
2775 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2777 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2778 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2781 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
2782 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
2783 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
2784 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
2785 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
2786 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
2787 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
2789 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
2790 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
2791 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
2792 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
2793 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
2795 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
2796 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
2797 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
2799 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
2800 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2802 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
2803 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
2804 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
2805 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
2806 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
2807 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
2808 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
2809 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
2810 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
2811 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
2813 o Major features (fallback directory list):
2814 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2815 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2816 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2818 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
2819 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
2820 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
2821 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
2822 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
2823 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
2824 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
2826 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
2828 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
2829 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
2830 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
2831 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
2833 o Major features (v3 onion services):
2834 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
2835 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
2836 Closes ticket 32709.
2838 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
2839 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2840 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2841 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2842 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2845 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
2846 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
2847 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
2848 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
2849 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
2850 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2852 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
2853 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2854 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2855 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2856 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2858 o Minor features (security):
2859 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
2860 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
2861 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
2862 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
2863 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
2865 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2866 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
2867 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
2868 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
2869 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
2872 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
2873 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
2874 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
2875 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
2876 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
2877 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
2878 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
2880 o Minor features (code safety):
2881 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
2882 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
2883 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
2884 Resolves issue 33788.
2886 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2887 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
2888 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
2889 Resolves ticket 32143.
2891 o Minor features (control port):
2892 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
2893 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
2894 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2895 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
2896 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
2897 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
2898 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2900 o Minor features (defense in depth):
2901 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
2902 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
2904 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
2905 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
2906 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
2907 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
2908 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
2909 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
2911 o Minor features (developer tooling):
2912 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
2913 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
2914 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
2915 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
2916 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
2917 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
2918 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
2920 o Minor features (directory authority):
2921 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
2922 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
2923 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
2924 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
2925 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
2927 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
2928 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
2929 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
2930 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
2932 o Minor features (directory):
2933 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
2934 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
2935 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
2938 o Minor features (entry guards):
2939 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
2940 Closes ticket 40001.
2942 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
2943 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
2944 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
2946 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
2947 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
2948 Closes ticket 33901.
2950 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
2951 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
2952 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
2953 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
2954 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
2955 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
2956 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
2958 o Minor features (logging):
2959 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
2960 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
2962 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
2963 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
2964 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
2965 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
2968 o Minor features (onion service v3):
2969 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
2970 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2972 o Minor features (python scripts):
2973 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
2974 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
2975 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
2976 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
2978 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
2979 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
2980 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
2981 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
2982 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
2983 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
2984 up from ticket 33316.
2985 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2986 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2987 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2989 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
2990 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
2991 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
2992 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2994 o Minor features (windows):
2995 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
2996 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
2998 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
2999 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
3000 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
3001 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3003 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
3004 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3005 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3006 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3007 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3009 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3010 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
3011 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
3012 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
3013 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
3014 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3016 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3017 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
3018 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
3019 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3021 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
3022 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
3023 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
3024 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
3025 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3027 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
3028 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
3029 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3031 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
3032 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
3033 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
3034 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
3035 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
3036 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3037 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
3038 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
3039 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
3040 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3042 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3043 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3044 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3045 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3046 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3048 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3049 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3050 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3051 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
3054 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
3055 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
3056 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
3057 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
3058 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3059 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
3060 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3062 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
3063 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
3064 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3066 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
3067 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
3068 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3070 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
3071 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
3072 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3074 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3075 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
3076 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
3079 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
3080 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
3081 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
3084 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
3085 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3086 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3087 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3088 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3089 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3090 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3092 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
3093 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
3094 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
3095 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
3097 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
3098 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
3099 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
3100 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
3101 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
3104 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
3105 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3106 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3107 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3108 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3109 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3112 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
3113 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
3114 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
3117 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3118 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3119 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3120 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3122 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3123 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
3124 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3125 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
3126 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3129 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
3130 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3131 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3133 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3134 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
3135 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
3136 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
3137 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3138 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
3139 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
3140 isolated in subsystems of their own.
3141 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
3142 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
3143 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
3144 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
3146 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
3147 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3148 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
3149 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
3151 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
3152 code. Closes ticket 33014.
3153 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
3154 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
3157 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
3158 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
3159 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
3160 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
3161 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
3162 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3165 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3166 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3167 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3168 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3169 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3170 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
3171 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
3172 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
3173 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
3174 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
3175 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3176 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
3177 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
3180 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
3181 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
3182 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
3183 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
3184 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
3185 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3186 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
3187 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
3189 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
3190 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3192 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3193 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3194 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3195 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
3196 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
3197 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
3198 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
3199 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
3200 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
3201 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
3202 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3203 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3205 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
3206 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3209 o Documentation (manual page):
3210 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
3211 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3212 Google Season of Docs.
3213 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
3214 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
3215 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
3216 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3217 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
3218 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
3219 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
3220 Closes ticket 33778.
3223 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
3224 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
3225 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
3227 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3228 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3229 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3230 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3231 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3232 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3233 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3236 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3237 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3238 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3239 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3242 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3243 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3244 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3245 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3246 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3247 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3249 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3250 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3251 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3252 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3253 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3254 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3256 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3257 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3258 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3260 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3261 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3262 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3263 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3266 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3267 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3268 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3269 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3272 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3273 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3274 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3275 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3276 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3278 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3279 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3280 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3282 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3283 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3284 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3285 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3286 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3289 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3290 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3291 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3292 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3293 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3294 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3296 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3297 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3298 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3299 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3301 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3302 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3303 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3304 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3307 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3308 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3309 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3310 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3311 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3312 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3313 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3314 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3318 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
3319 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
3320 several that affect usability and portability.
3322 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3323 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3324 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3325 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3326 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3327 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3328 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3331 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3332 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3333 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3334 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3337 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
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 Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
3345 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3346 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3347 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3348 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3350 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3351 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3352 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3353 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3355 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3356 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3357 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3358 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3359 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3360 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3362 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3363 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3364 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3366 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3367 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3368 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3369 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3372 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3373 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3374 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3375 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3378 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3379 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3380 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3381 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3382 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3383 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3386 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3387 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3388 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3390 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3391 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3392 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3393 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3395 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3396 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3397 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3398 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3399 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3402 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3403 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3404 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3405 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3406 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3407 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3409 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
3410 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3411 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3412 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3413 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3415 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3416 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3417 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3418 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3420 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3421 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3422 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3423 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3425 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3426 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3427 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3428 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3431 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3432 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3433 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3434 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3435 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3436 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3437 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3438 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3442 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
3443 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
3444 some affecting usability.
3446 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3447 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3448 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3449 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3450 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3451 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3452 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3455 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3456 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3457 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3458 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3461 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3462 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3463 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3465 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3466 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3467 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3468 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3471 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3472 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3473 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3475 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3476 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
3477 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
3478 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3480 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3481 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3482 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3483 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3485 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3486 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
3487 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3489 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3490 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
3491 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
3492 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
3493 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3495 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3496 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
3497 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
3499 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3500 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3501 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3502 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3504 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3505 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
3509 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
3510 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
3511 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
3512 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
3513 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
3514 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
3517 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3518 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3519 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3520 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
3521 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
3523 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
3524 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
3525 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
3528 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
3529 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3531 o New system requirements:
3532 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
3533 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
3534 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
3536 o Major features (build system):
3537 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
3538 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
3539 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
3540 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
3541 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
3543 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
3544 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
3545 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
3546 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
3547 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3549 o Major features (onion services):
3550 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
3551 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
3552 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
3553 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
3554 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
3555 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
3556 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
3558 o Major features (proxy):
3559 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
3560 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
3561 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
3562 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
3563 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
3564 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
3566 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
3567 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3568 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3569 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3570 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3571 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3572 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3573 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3574 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3576 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
3577 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3578 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3579 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3580 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3582 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3583 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
3584 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
3585 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
3586 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3588 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
3589 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3590 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3591 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3592 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3593 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3595 o Major bugfixes (networking):
3596 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
3597 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
3598 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3600 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
3601 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
3602 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
3603 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
3604 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
3605 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3607 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
3608 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
3609 message. Closes ticket 31371.
3611 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
3612 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3613 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3614 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3615 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3617 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
3618 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
3619 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
3620 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
3622 o Minor features (configuration validation):
3623 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
3624 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
3625 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
3626 Closes ticket 31241.
3628 o Minor features (configuration):
3629 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
3630 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
3632 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
3633 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
3634 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
3635 Implements ticket 32404.
3637 o Minor features (configure, build system):
3638 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
3639 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
3641 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3642 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
3643 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
3644 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3645 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3646 Closes ticket 33075.
3648 o Minor features (controller):
3649 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
3650 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
3651 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
3653 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3654 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3655 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3656 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3658 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3659 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
3660 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
3663 o Minor features (developer tools):
3664 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
3665 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
3666 Closes ticket 32772.
3667 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
3668 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
3669 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
3670 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
3671 target. Closes ticket 31919.
3672 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
3673 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
3674 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
3676 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
3677 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
3678 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
3679 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
3681 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3682 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3683 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3684 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3686 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3687 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
3688 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
3689 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3691 o Minor features (Doxygen):
3692 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
3693 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
3694 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
3696 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
3697 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
3698 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
3699 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
3700 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
3701 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
3702 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
3703 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
3705 o Minor features (git scripts):
3706 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
3707 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
3708 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
3709 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
3710 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
3711 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
3712 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
3713 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
3714 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
3715 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
3716 Closes ticket 32216.
3717 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
3718 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
3719 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
3720 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
3722 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
3723 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
3724 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
3725 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
3726 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
3727 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
3729 o Minor features (portability, android):
3730 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
3731 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
3732 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3734 o Minor features (relay modularity):
3735 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
3736 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
3737 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3738 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3739 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
3740 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
3741 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3742 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
3743 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
3745 o Minor features (release tools):
3746 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
3747 Closes ticket 32704.
3749 o Minor features (testing):
3750 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3751 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3752 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3753 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3754 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3755 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
3756 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
3757 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
3758 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
3759 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
3760 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
3762 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
3763 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
3764 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3766 o Minor features (usability):
3767 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
3768 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
3769 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
3771 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
3772 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3773 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3774 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3777 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3778 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3779 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3781 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3782 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
3783 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3785 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
3786 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3787 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3788 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3789 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3790 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3793 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
3794 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
3795 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
3796 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3797 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
3798 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
3799 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
3800 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
3801 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
3802 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
3803 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
3804 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
3805 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
3806 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3807 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
3808 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
3809 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
3810 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3812 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3813 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
3816 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3817 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3818 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3819 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3821 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3822 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
3823 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
3826 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
3827 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
3828 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3830 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
3831 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
3832 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
3833 Closes ticket 32213.
3834 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3835 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
3836 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3838 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
3839 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3840 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3841 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3842 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3845 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3846 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
3848 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
3849 Closes ticket 32216.
3851 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
3852 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3853 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3854 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3855 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3856 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3858 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3859 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
3860 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3861 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3862 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3863 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3864 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
3865 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
3867 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3868 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3869 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3870 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3872 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3873 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3874 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3875 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3877 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
3878 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
3879 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
3880 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
3881 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
3882 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
3883 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
3884 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
3887 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3888 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3889 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3890 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3892 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
3893 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
3894 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
3895 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3896 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3897 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3898 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3900 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
3901 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
3902 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
3903 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
3904 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3906 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3907 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
3908 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
3909 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
3912 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
3913 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
3914 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
3915 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
3916 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3918 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3919 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
3920 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
3921 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3923 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
3924 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3925 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3926 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3928 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
3929 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
3930 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3932 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3933 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
3934 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
3935 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
3937 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
3938 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3939 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
3940 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
3941 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
3942 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
3943 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3945 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
3946 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
3947 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
3948 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
3949 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
3951 o Deprecated features:
3952 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
3953 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
3954 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
3958 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
3959 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
3960 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
3961 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
3962 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
3963 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
3964 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
3965 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
3967 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
3968 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
3971 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
3972 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
3973 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
3974 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
3975 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
3976 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
3978 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
3979 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
3980 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
3981 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
3982 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
3985 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
3986 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
3987 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
3988 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
3989 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
3991 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
3992 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
3994 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
3995 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
3996 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
3997 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
3998 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
4001 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
4002 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
4003 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
4005 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
4006 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
4007 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
4008 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
4009 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
4010 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
4011 Solves part of ticket 32339.
4012 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
4013 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
4014 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
4015 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
4016 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
4017 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
4018 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
4019 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
4020 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
4021 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
4023 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
4024 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
4026 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
4027 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
4028 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
4030 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4031 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
4032 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
4033 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
4034 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
4035 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
4037 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
4038 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
4039 Closes ticket 32163.
4040 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
4042 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
4044 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
4045 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
4046 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
4048 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4049 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
4050 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
4051 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
4052 Closes ticket 32304.
4053 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
4054 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
4055 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
4056 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
4057 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
4060 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
4061 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4063 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4066 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
4067 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
4068 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
4069 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4070 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
4071 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
4072 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
4073 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4075 o Documentation (manpage):
4076 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4077 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4078 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4079 Google Season of Docs.
4080 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4081 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4082 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
4083 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
4084 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4085 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4087 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4089 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
4090 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
4091 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
4093 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
4094 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
4095 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4097 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
4098 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4099 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4100 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4101 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4102 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4103 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4104 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4107 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
4108 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
4111 o Testing (Travis CI):
4112 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4113 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4114 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4116 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4117 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4118 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4119 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4120 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4123 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4124 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4125 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4126 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4127 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4128 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4129 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4130 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4131 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4132 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4133 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4134 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4136 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4137 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4138 as soon as packages are available.
4140 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4141 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4142 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4143 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4144 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4145 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4146 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4147 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4148 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4150 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4151 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4152 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4153 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4154 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4156 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4157 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4158 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4159 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4160 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4162 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4163 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4164 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4165 Closes ticket 33075.
4167 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4168 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4169 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4171 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4172 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4173 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4174 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4175 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4178 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4179 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4180 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4181 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4184 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4185 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4186 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4187 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4189 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4190 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4191 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4192 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4194 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4195 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4196 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4197 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4198 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4201 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
4202 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
4203 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
4204 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
4205 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
4206 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
4207 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
4208 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
4209 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
4210 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
4211 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
4212 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4214 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4215 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4216 as soon as packages are available.
4218 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4219 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4220 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4221 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4222 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4223 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4224 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4225 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4226 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4228 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4229 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4230 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4231 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4232 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4234 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4235 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4236 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4238 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4239 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4240 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4241 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4242 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4245 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4246 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4247 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4248 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4251 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4252 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4253 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4254 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4256 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4257 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4258 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4259 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4261 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4262 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4263 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4264 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4265 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4268 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
4269 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
4270 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
4271 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4272 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4273 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4274 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4275 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4276 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4277 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4278 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4281 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4282 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4283 as soon as packages are available.
4285 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4286 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4287 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4288 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4289 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4290 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4291 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4292 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4293 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4295 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4296 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4297 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4298 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4299 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
4300 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4301 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4302 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4305 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4306 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4307 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4308 Closes ticket 33075.
4310 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4311 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4312 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4314 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4315 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4316 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4317 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4318 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4320 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4321 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4322 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4323 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4324 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4327 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4328 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4329 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4330 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4333 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4334 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4335 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4336 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4338 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4339 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4340 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4341 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4342 Closes ticket 32629.
4343 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4344 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4345 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4347 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4348 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4350 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4351 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4352 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4353 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4355 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4356 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4357 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4358 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4361 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
4362 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4363 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
4364 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
4365 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
4366 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
4368 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4369 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4370 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4371 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4372 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4373 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4374 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4375 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4377 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4378 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4379 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4381 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4382 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
4383 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
4384 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4386 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4387 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
4388 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
4389 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4391 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4392 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
4393 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
4394 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4395 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
4396 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
4399 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4400 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4401 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4403 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4404 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4405 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4406 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4407 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4408 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4409 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4410 Closes ticket 32629.
4412 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4413 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4416 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
4417 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
4418 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
4419 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
4420 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
4421 current version of 0.4.1.x.
4423 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4424 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4425 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4426 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4427 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4428 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4429 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4430 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4432 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4433 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4434 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4436 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
4437 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4438 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4439 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4440 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4442 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4443 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4444 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4446 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4447 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4448 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4449 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4450 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4451 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4452 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4453 Closes ticket 32629.
4455 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4456 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4459 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
4460 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
4461 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
4462 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
4463 bugs present in previous series.
4465 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
4466 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
4467 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4468 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4470 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
4471 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4473 o Major features (directory authorities):
4474 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
4475 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
4476 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
4478 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
4479 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
4480 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
4481 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
4482 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
4483 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
4486 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
4487 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4488 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
4489 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
4490 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
4491 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
4494 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
4495 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
4496 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
4497 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
4498 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4499 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
4500 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
4501 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
4502 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4504 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4505 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
4506 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
4507 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4509 o Major bugfixes (relay):
4510 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4511 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4512 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4513 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4514 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4515 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4516 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4518 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
4519 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4520 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4521 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4522 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4524 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4525 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4526 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4527 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4528 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4531 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
4532 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
4533 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
4534 Closes ticket 29669.
4536 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
4537 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
4538 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
4539 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
4540 Closes ticket 31779.
4542 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4543 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
4544 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
4545 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
4546 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
4547 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
4548 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
4549 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
4550 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
4551 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
4552 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
4553 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
4554 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
4555 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
4556 files. Closes ticket 31175.
4558 o Minor features (build system):
4559 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
4560 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
4561 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
4562 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
4563 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
4565 o Minor features (compilation):
4566 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
4567 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
4568 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
4570 o Minor features (configuration):
4571 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
4572 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
4573 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
4574 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
4576 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4577 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4578 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4579 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4580 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
4581 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
4582 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
4584 o Minor features (debugging):
4585 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
4586 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
4587 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
4588 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
4590 o Minor features (geoip):
4591 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4592 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4594 o Minor features (git hooks):
4595 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
4596 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
4597 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
4598 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
4599 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
4601 o Minor features (git scripts):
4602 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
4603 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
4604 push. Closes ticket 31314.
4605 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
4606 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
4607 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
4608 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
4609 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
4610 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
4611 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
4612 Closes ticket 31314.
4613 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
4614 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
4615 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
4616 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
4617 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
4618 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
4619 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
4620 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
4621 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
4623 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
4624 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
4625 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
4628 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
4629 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
4630 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
4632 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
4633 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
4634 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
4635 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
4636 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
4637 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
4638 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
4640 o Minor features (onion service v3):
4641 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
4642 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
4644 o Minor features (onion service):
4645 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
4646 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
4647 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
4648 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
4650 o Minor features (onion services v3):
4651 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
4652 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
4655 o Minor features (stem tests):
4656 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4657 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4660 o Minor features (testing):
4661 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
4662 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
4663 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
4664 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
4665 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
4666 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
4667 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
4668 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
4669 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
4670 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
4671 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
4672 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
4673 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
4674 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
4675 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
4677 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
4678 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4679 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4680 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4682 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4683 Closes ticket 31859.
4684 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4685 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4687 o Minor features (token bucket):
4688 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
4689 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
4691 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
4692 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
4693 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4695 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
4696 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
4697 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
4698 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4699 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
4700 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
4701 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
4702 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
4705 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4706 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
4707 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4708 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
4710 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
4711 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4712 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
4713 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
4714 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4715 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4716 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4718 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
4719 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
4720 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
4721 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
4722 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
4723 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4725 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
4726 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4727 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4728 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4729 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4730 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4732 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
4733 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
4734 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4736 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4737 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
4738 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
4739 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
4740 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
4742 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4743 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4744 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4746 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4747 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
4748 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
4749 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
4751 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
4752 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4753 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4754 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4756 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4757 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
4758 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
4759 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4761 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
4762 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
4763 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
4764 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
4765 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
4766 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
4767 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
4768 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
4769 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
4770 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4772 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
4773 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4774 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4775 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4776 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4778 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
4779 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
4780 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
4783 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4784 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
4785 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4787 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
4788 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
4789 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4790 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4791 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4792 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4793 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4794 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4795 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4796 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4797 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4798 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4801 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
4802 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4803 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4804 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4807 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
4808 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
4809 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
4810 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4812 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4813 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
4814 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
4815 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4816 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
4817 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4818 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
4819 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
4820 Closes ticket 31678.
4822 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
4823 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4824 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4825 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4826 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4828 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
4829 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
4830 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
4831 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
4832 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4833 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
4834 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
4835 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
4836 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
4839 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4840 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4841 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4842 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4843 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4844 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4845 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4846 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4847 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4848 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
4849 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4850 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4851 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4853 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
4854 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
4855 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
4857 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
4858 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4859 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4860 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4862 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
4863 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4864 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4865 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4866 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4869 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
4870 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
4871 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
4874 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
4875 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
4876 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
4879 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
4880 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4881 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4883 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
4884 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
4885 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
4886 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
4887 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
4888 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4890 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
4891 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
4892 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
4893 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
4896 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
4897 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
4898 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
4899 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
4900 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4902 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4903 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
4904 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
4905 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
4906 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
4907 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4909 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
4910 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
4911 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
4912 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4914 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
4915 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4916 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4918 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4919 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4920 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4922 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4923 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4924 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4925 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4927 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
4928 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4929 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4930 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
4931 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4933 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
4934 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
4935 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
4936 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4938 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
4939 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
4940 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
4941 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
4942 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4944 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
4945 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
4946 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
4947 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
4948 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
4951 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4952 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
4953 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
4955 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4956 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4957 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4958 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4959 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
4960 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
4963 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
4964 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
4965 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4967 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
4968 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4969 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4972 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
4973 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4974 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4975 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4976 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4977 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4979 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
4980 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
4981 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
4982 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
4983 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4985 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
4986 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4987 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
4988 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
4989 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
4990 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4991 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4992 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4993 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4994 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4996 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4997 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
4998 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
4999 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
5000 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
5001 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
5002 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
5004 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
5008 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
5009 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5010 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
5011 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
5012 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
5013 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
5014 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
5015 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
5017 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5018 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5019 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
5020 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
5021 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
5022 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
5023 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
5024 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
5025 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
5026 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
5027 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5028 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5029 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5032 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
5033 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
5034 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
5035 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
5036 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
5037 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
5039 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
5043 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5044 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5045 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5046 Closes ticket 32500.
5047 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
5048 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
5049 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
5050 Closes ticket 30967.
5052 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
5053 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
5054 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
5055 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
5056 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
5057 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
5058 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
5059 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
5060 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
5061 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
5062 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
5063 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
5064 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
5065 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
5066 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
5067 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
5069 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5070 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
5071 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
5072 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
5073 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
5074 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
5075 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
5076 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
5077 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
5078 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
5080 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
5081 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
5082 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
5084 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
5085 Closes ticket 30806.
5086 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
5087 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
5090 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
5091 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
5092 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
5094 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
5095 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
5096 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5098 o Testing (continuous integration):
5099 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5100 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5101 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5102 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5103 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5104 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5105 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5106 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5107 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5110 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5111 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5112 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5113 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5115 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5116 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5117 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5118 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5120 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5121 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5122 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5123 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5125 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5126 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5127 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5128 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5129 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5130 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5131 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5132 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5134 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5135 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5136 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5137 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5138 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5140 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5141 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5142 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5143 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5144 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5147 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5148 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5149 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5150 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5152 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5153 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5154 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5156 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5157 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5158 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5160 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5161 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5162 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5163 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5164 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5165 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5167 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5168 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5169 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5170 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5172 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5173 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5174 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5175 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5176 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5177 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5178 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5179 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5180 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5181 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5184 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5185 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5186 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5187 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5188 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5189 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5190 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5191 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5192 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5194 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5195 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5196 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5197 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5199 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5200 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5201 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5202 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5203 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5206 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5207 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5208 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5210 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5211 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5212 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5214 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5215 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5216 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5218 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5219 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5220 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5221 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5223 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5224 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5225 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5226 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5227 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5229 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5230 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5231 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5233 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5234 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5235 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5238 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5239 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5240 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5242 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5243 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5244 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5245 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5247 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5248 Closes ticket 31859.
5249 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5250 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5252 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5253 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5254 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5255 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5256 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5257 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5258 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5259 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5260 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5261 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5263 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5264 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5265 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5266 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5267 Closes ticket 32500.
5270 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
5271 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
5272 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
5273 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
5274 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5276 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
5277 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
5278 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
5279 support until 1 Feb 2022.
5281 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5282 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5285 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5286 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5287 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5288 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5289 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5290 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5291 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5292 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5293 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5294 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5295 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5297 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5298 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5299 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5300 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5301 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5302 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5304 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5305 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5306 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5307 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5308 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5311 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5312 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5313 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5314 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5315 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5317 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5318 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5319 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5320 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5323 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5324 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5325 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5326 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5327 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5328 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5329 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5330 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5332 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5333 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5334 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5335 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5336 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5338 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5339 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5340 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5341 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5342 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5345 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5346 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5347 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5349 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5350 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5351 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5354 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5355 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5356 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5358 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5359 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5360 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5361 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5363 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5364 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5365 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5366 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5367 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5369 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5370 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5371 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5373 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5374 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5375 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5378 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5379 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5380 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5382 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5383 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5384 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5386 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5387 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5388 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5390 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5391 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5392 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5395 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5396 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5397 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5398 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5399 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5400 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5402 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5403 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5404 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5405 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5406 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5408 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5409 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5410 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5413 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5414 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5415 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5417 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5418 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5419 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5420 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5422 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5423 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5424 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5425 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5427 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5428 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5429 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5430 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5432 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5433 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5434 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5435 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5437 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5438 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5439 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5440 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5441 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5442 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5443 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5445 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5446 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5447 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5448 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5450 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5451 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5452 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5453 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5455 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5456 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5457 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5460 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5461 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5462 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5463 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5464 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5465 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5466 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5468 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5469 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5470 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5471 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5474 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5475 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5476 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5477 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5478 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5480 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5481 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5482 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5483 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5484 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5486 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5487 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5488 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5491 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5492 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5493 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5494 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5495 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5497 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5498 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5499 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5500 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5502 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5503 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5504 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5505 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5506 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5509 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5510 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5511 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5514 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5515 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5516 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5517 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5519 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5520 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
5521 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
5522 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
5524 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5525 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5526 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
5527 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5529 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5530 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5531 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5532 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5535 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5536 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5537 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5538 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5539 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5540 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5543 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5544 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5545 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5547 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5548 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5549 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5551 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5552 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5553 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5554 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5556 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5557 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5558 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5560 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5561 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5562 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5563 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5564 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5566 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5567 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5568 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5571 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5572 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5573 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5574 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5575 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5576 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5577 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5578 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5579 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5580 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5582 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5583 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5584 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5585 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5587 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5588 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5589 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5590 Resolves issue 29702.
5592 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5593 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5595 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5596 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5597 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5598 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5601 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5602 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5603 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5604 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5606 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5607 Closes ticket 31859.
5608 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5609 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5611 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5612 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5613 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5614 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5615 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5616 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5617 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5618 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5619 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5620 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5622 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5623 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5624 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5625 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5626 Closes ticket 32500.
5629 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
5630 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
5631 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
5634 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5635 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5638 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5639 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5640 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5641 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5642 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5643 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5644 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5645 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5646 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5647 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5648 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5650 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5651 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5652 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5653 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5654 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5655 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5657 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5658 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
5659 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
5660 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
5661 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
5662 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5664 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5665 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5666 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5667 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5668 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5671 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5672 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5673 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5674 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5675 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5677 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5678 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5679 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5680 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5683 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5684 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5685 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5686 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5687 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5689 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5690 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5691 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5692 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5693 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5696 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5697 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
5698 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
5699 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
5700 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
5701 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
5702 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
5703 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5705 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5706 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
5707 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
5708 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
5709 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
5712 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5713 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5714 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5716 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5717 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
5718 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
5721 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5722 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
5723 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
5724 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
5726 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5727 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5728 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5731 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5732 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5733 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5735 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5736 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5737 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5738 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5740 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5741 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5742 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5743 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5744 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5746 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5747 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5748 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5750 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5751 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
5752 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
5753 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
5755 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5756 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5757 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5760 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5761 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
5762 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
5763 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
5764 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5765 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
5766 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
5767 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
5768 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
5769 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
5770 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
5771 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
5772 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
5775 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5776 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
5777 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
5778 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
5779 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
5781 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
5782 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
5783 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5785 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5786 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5787 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5789 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5790 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5791 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5793 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
5794 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
5795 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
5798 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5799 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5800 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5802 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5803 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5804 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5805 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5806 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5807 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5809 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5810 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5811 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5812 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5813 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5815 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5816 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5817 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5820 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5821 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
5822 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5824 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5825 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5826 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5828 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5829 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5830 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5831 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5833 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5834 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
5835 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
5836 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5838 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5839 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
5840 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
5841 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
5843 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5844 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5845 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5846 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5848 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5849 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
5850 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5851 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
5852 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5853 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
5854 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5856 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5857 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5858 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5859 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5861 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5862 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
5863 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
5864 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5866 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5867 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
5868 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
5871 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5872 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5873 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5874 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5875 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5876 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5877 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5879 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5880 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5881 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5882 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5885 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5886 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5887 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5888 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5889 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5891 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
5892 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
5893 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5895 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5896 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
5897 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
5898 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
5899 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5900 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
5901 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
5902 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
5903 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
5904 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
5905 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5907 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5908 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
5909 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
5910 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
5911 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
5913 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5914 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5915 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5918 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5919 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5920 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5921 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5922 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5924 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5925 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5926 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5927 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5929 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5930 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5931 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5932 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5933 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5936 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5937 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
5938 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
5941 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5942 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
5943 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
5944 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5946 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5947 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
5948 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
5949 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5951 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5952 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
5953 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
5955 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5956 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
5957 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
5958 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5960 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5961 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
5962 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
5963 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
5966 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5967 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
5968 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
5969 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
5970 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
5971 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
5974 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5975 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5976 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5977 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5979 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
5980 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
5981 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5983 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5984 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5985 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5987 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5988 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
5989 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
5990 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
5991 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
5992 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
5993 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
5995 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5996 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
5997 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6000 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6001 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6002 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6003 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6004 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6005 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6006 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6007 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6009 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6010 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6011 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6012 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6013 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6014 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6017 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6018 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6019 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6020 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6021 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6023 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6024 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6025 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6026 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6027 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6028 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6029 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6030 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6032 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6033 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6034 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6037 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6038 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6039 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6040 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6041 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6042 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6043 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6044 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6045 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6046 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6048 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6049 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6050 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6051 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6052 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6053 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6055 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6056 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6057 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6058 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6060 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6061 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6062 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6063 Resolves issue 29702.
6065 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6066 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6068 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6069 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6070 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6071 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6074 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6075 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6076 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6077 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6079 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6080 Closes ticket 31859.
6081 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6082 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6084 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6085 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6086 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6087 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6088 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6089 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6090 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6091 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6092 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6093 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6095 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6096 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6097 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6098 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6099 Closes ticket 32500.
6102 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
6103 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6104 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
6105 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
6108 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6109 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6110 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6111 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6112 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6113 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6114 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6115 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6116 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6118 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6119 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6120 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6123 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6124 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6125 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6127 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6128 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6129 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6130 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6131 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6133 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6134 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6135 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6137 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6138 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6139 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
6140 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6142 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6143 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6144 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6145 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6148 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6149 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6150 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6151 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6152 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6154 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6155 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6156 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6159 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6160 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6161 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6163 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6164 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6165 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6166 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6167 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6168 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6170 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6171 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6172 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6173 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6174 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6175 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6176 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6177 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6178 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6179 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6181 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6182 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6183 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6184 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6187 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
6188 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
6189 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
6190 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
6191 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
6192 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
6193 bugfixes on earlier versions.
6195 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
6196 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
6197 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6198 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6200 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
6201 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6203 o Directory authority changes:
6204 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6207 o Major features (circuit padding):
6208 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
6209 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
6210 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
6211 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
6212 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
6213 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
6214 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
6215 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
6216 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
6218 o Major features (code organization):
6219 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
6220 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
6221 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
6222 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
6225 o Major features (controller protocol):
6226 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
6227 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
6228 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
6229 Closes ticket 30091.
6231 o Major features (flow control):
6232 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
6233 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
6234 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
6235 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
6236 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
6237 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
6238 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
6240 o Major features (performance):
6241 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
6242 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
6243 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
6245 o Major features (performance, RNG):
6246 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
6247 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
6248 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
6249 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
6250 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
6251 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
6252 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
6253 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
6255 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
6256 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6257 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6258 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6259 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6260 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6261 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6262 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6263 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6264 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6265 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6267 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6268 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6269 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6271 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6272 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6273 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6274 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6275 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6277 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
6278 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6279 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6280 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6281 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6284 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
6285 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6286 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6287 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6288 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6290 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6291 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6292 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6293 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6296 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
6297 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
6298 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
6299 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
6300 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
6301 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
6304 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
6305 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
6306 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
6307 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
6309 o Minor features (circuit padding):
6310 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
6312 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
6313 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
6314 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
6315 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
6316 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6317 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
6318 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
6320 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
6321 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6322 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6324 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6325 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6326 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6327 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
6328 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
6330 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6331 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6333 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6335 o Minor features (controller):
6336 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
6337 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
6338 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6340 o Minor features (debugging):
6341 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
6342 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
6343 can use format strings to include information for trouble
6344 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
6346 o Minor features (defense in depth):
6347 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
6348 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
6349 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
6350 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
6351 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
6352 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
6353 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
6354 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
6355 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
6357 o Minor features (developer tools):
6358 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
6359 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
6360 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
6361 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
6362 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
6364 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
6365 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
6367 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
6368 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
6370 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6371 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6372 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6373 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6374 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6376 o Minor features (geoip):
6377 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6378 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
6379 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6380 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
6382 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
6383 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
6384 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
6386 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
6387 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
6388 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
6389 addresses. Implements 26992.
6391 o Minor features (logging):
6392 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
6393 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
6394 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
6395 Closes ticket 30686.
6397 o Minor features (maintenance):
6398 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
6399 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
6400 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
6402 o Minor features (modularity):
6403 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
6404 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
6406 o Minor features (performance):
6407 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
6408 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
6409 Closes ticket 28837.
6411 o Minor features (testing):
6412 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
6413 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
6414 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
6415 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
6417 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
6418 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
6419 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
6420 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
6421 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
6422 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
6423 Implements ticket 29732.
6424 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
6425 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
6427 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
6428 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
6430 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
6431 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
6432 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
6433 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
6434 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
6435 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6437 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
6438 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
6439 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
6440 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6442 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
6443 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6444 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6446 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
6447 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
6448 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6449 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
6450 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
6451 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
6452 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6453 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
6454 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
6455 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6456 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
6457 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6458 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
6459 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
6460 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6461 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
6462 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
6463 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6465 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
6466 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6467 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6468 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6469 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6471 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
6472 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
6473 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
6474 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
6475 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
6476 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6478 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
6479 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6480 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
6483 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
6484 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6485 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6487 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
6488 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6489 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6490 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6492 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
6493 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6494 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6495 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6497 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6498 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6499 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6500 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6501 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6502 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6503 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6505 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6506 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
6507 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
6508 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
6509 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
6511 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
6512 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6513 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6514 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6516 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
6517 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
6518 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
6521 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
6522 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6523 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6524 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6525 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6526 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6528 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
6529 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6530 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6532 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6533 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
6534 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6535 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
6536 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
6537 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
6539 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
6540 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
6542 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6543 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6544 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6545 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6546 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6547 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
6548 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
6551 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
6552 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6553 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6555 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
6556 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
6559 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
6560 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6561 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6562 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6564 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6565 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6566 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6567 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6568 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
6569 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
6570 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
6571 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
6573 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
6574 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
6575 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6576 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
6577 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
6578 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
6579 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6581 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
6582 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
6583 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
6584 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
6585 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
6586 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6588 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
6589 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6590 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6591 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6594 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
6595 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
6596 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
6597 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
6598 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6600 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6601 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
6602 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6604 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6605 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6606 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6607 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6608 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6609 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6612 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
6613 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
6614 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
6617 o Minor bugfixes (python):
6618 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
6619 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
6620 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
6622 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6623 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
6624 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
6625 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
6626 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6628 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
6629 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
6630 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
6631 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
6633 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
6634 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
6635 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
6636 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
6637 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6639 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6640 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
6641 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
6642 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6643 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
6644 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6645 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
6646 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6647 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
6648 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
6649 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
6650 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
6651 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6653 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
6654 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
6655 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
6656 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
6657 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6659 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6660 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
6661 port. Implements ticket 30007.
6662 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
6663 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
6664 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
6665 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
6666 string to directory connection with or without compression.
6667 Resolves issue 28816.
6668 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
6669 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
6670 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
6671 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
6672 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
6673 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
6674 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
6675 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
6676 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
6677 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
6678 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
6679 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
6680 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
6681 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
6682 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
6683 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
6684 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6685 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
6686 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6687 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
6688 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
6689 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
6690 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
6691 Closes ticket 29894.
6692 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
6693 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
6694 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
6695 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
6698 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
6699 Closes ticket 30630.
6700 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
6701 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
6705 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
6706 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
6707 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
6708 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
6712 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6713 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6714 Resolves issue 29702.
6716 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
6717 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
6718 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
6719 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
6720 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
6721 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
6722 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
6723 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
6724 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
6725 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
6726 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
6729 o Testing (chutney):
6730 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
6731 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
6732 Closes ticket 27251.
6734 o Testing (continuous integration):
6735 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
6736 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6737 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
6738 Closes ticket 30694.
6741 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
6742 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
6743 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
6744 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
6745 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
6746 long-term maintainability.
6748 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
6749 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
6750 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6751 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6753 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
6754 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6756 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
6757 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
6758 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
6759 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
6760 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
6761 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
6763 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
6764 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
6766 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
6767 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
6770 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
6771 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
6772 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
6773 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
6774 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
6775 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
6776 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
6777 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
6778 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
6781 o Major features (circuit padding):
6782 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
6783 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
6784 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
6785 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
6786 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
6787 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
6788 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
6789 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
6792 o Major features (refactoring):
6793 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
6794 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
6795 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
6796 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
6799 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6800 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6801 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6802 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6803 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6804 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6805 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6806 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6808 o Major bugfixes (networking):
6809 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
6810 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
6811 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
6812 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6814 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
6815 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6816 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6817 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6818 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6819 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6821 o Minor features (address selection):
6822 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6823 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6824 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6825 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6826 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6827 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6828 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6830 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
6831 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6832 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6833 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6834 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6836 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
6837 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
6838 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
6841 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
6842 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
6843 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
6844 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
6845 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
6848 o Minor features (compilation):
6849 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
6850 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
6851 Patches from "Mangix".
6853 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6854 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6855 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6857 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
6859 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6860 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6861 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6863 o Minor features (controller):
6864 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
6865 Implements ticket 28843.
6867 o Minor features (developer tooling):
6868 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
6869 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
6870 release. Closes ticket 27761.
6871 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
6872 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
6873 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
6875 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
6876 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
6877 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
6879 o Minor features (diagnostic):
6880 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
6881 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
6884 o Minor features (directory authority):
6885 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
6886 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
6887 Closes ticket 26698.
6888 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
6889 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
6890 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
6891 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
6894 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
6895 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
6896 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
6897 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
6898 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
6899 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
6900 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
6902 o Minor features (dormant mode):
6903 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
6904 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
6905 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
6906 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
6907 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
6908 background. Closes ticket 29357.
6910 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
6911 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
6912 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
6914 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
6915 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
6916 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
6917 Closes ticket 28518.
6919 o Minor features (geoip):
6920 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6921 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
6923 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
6924 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
6925 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
6926 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
6928 o Minor features (IPv6):
6929 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
6930 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
6931 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
6932 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
6933 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
6934 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6935 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
6936 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
6937 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
6938 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6940 o Minor features (log messages):
6941 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
6942 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
6945 o Minor features (memory usage):
6946 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
6947 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
6948 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
6949 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
6950 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
6952 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
6953 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6954 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6955 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6957 o Minor features (parsing):
6958 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
6959 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
6960 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
6962 o Minor features (performance):
6963 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
6964 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
6965 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
6966 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
6968 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
6969 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
6970 Closes ticket 28852.
6971 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
6972 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
6973 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
6974 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
6975 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
6976 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
6978 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
6979 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
6980 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
6981 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
6982 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
6984 o Minor features (process management):
6985 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
6986 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
6987 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
6988 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
6989 module. Closes ticket 28847.
6991 o Minor features (relay):
6992 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
6993 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
6994 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
6996 o Minor features (required protocols):
6997 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
6998 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
6999 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
7000 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
7001 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
7002 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
7003 297; closes ticket 27735.
7005 o Minor features (testing):
7006 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7008 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
7009 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
7010 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
7011 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
7014 o Minor bugfixes (security):
7015 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
7016 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
7017 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
7018 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
7019 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
7020 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
7021 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
7022 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
7024 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
7025 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
7026 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
7027 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7029 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
7030 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
7031 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
7032 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
7033 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
7035 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
7036 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
7037 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7039 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
7040 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7041 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7042 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7044 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7045 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
7046 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
7049 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
7050 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
7051 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7052 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7053 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7056 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7057 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
7058 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7059 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7060 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7061 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7063 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
7064 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7065 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7067 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
7068 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
7069 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
7070 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7072 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
7073 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
7074 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
7075 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
7076 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
7078 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7079 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7080 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7081 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7083 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7084 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
7085 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
7086 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
7087 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
7088 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
7089 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7091 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
7092 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7093 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7094 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7097 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7098 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
7099 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
7100 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
7101 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7102 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
7103 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
7104 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
7105 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7106 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
7107 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7108 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
7109 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7110 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7111 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7112 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7113 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7114 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7115 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7116 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7117 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7118 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7120 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7121 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
7122 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
7123 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7124 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
7125 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7127 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7128 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7129 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7130 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7131 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7133 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7134 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
7135 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
7136 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7138 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
7139 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7140 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7141 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7142 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7143 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7145 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
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 (periodic events):
7159 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
7160 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
7161 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7163 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7164 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
7165 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
7166 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
7167 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7169 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7170 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
7171 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7173 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
7174 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
7175 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
7176 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
7177 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
7180 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
7181 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
7182 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
7183 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
7184 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
7185 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
7186 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
7188 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7189 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
7190 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
7193 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7194 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
7195 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
7196 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7197 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
7198 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
7200 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
7201 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
7202 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
7203 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
7204 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
7205 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
7206 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7207 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7208 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7209 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7210 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7212 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
7213 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
7214 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
7215 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7217 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
7218 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
7219 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
7220 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
7221 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
7222 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
7223 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
7224 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7226 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
7227 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7228 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7229 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7230 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7232 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
7233 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
7234 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
7235 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
7236 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
7237 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7239 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7240 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
7241 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
7242 Resolves issue 28816.
7243 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
7244 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
7245 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
7246 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
7247 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
7249 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
7250 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
7251 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
7252 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
7253 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
7254 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
7255 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
7256 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
7260 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
7261 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
7262 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
7263 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
7264 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
7265 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
7266 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
7267 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
7268 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
7270 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
7273 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
7274 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
7275 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
7276 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
7277 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
7278 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
7279 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
7280 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
7283 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
7285 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
7286 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
7288 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
7289 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
7290 code from client and service into one function. Closes
7293 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7294 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
7296 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
7297 Resolves ticket 28006.
7298 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
7299 Resolves ticket 28012.
7300 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
7301 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
7302 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
7303 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
7307 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
7308 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
7309 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
7312 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7313 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7314 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7316 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7317 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7318 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7319 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7320 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7321 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7322 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7323 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7325 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7326 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7327 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7328 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7329 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7331 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7332 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7333 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7334 Patches from "Mangix".
7336 o Minor features (geoip):
7337 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7338 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7340 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7341 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7344 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7345 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7346 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7347 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7348 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7349 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7351 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7352 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7353 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7354 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7357 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7358 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7359 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7360 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7362 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7363 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7364 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7367 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7368 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7369 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7370 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7372 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7373 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7374 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7375 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7377 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7378 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7379 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7380 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7381 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7382 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7384 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7385 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7386 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7387 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7388 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7390 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7391 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7392 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7393 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7394 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7396 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7397 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7398 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7400 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7401 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7402 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7404 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7405 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7406 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7407 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7409 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7410 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7411 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7413 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7414 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7415 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7416 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7417 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7420 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7421 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7422 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7423 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7424 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7427 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
7428 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
7429 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
7430 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
7431 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7433 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7434 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7435 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7436 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7437 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7438 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7439 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7440 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7442 o Minor features (geoip):
7443 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7444 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7446 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7447 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7448 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7449 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7451 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7452 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7453 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7454 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7455 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7458 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
7459 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7460 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7461 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7463 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
7464 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
7465 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
7466 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
7468 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7469 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7470 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7471 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7472 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7473 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7474 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7475 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7477 o Minor features (geoip):
7478 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7479 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7481 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7482 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7483 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7484 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7486 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7487 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7488 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7489 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7490 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7493 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
7494 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7495 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
7496 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
7497 to this version, or to a later series.
7499 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
7500 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
7501 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
7502 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
7503 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
7504 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
7506 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7507 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7508 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7509 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7510 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7513 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7514 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7515 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7516 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7518 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7519 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7520 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7521 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7522 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7523 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7524 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7525 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7527 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7528 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7529 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7530 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7532 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7533 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7534 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7535 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7536 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7538 o Minor features (geoip):
7539 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7540 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
7542 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7543 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7544 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7545 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7546 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7547 Closes ticket 28973.
7549 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7550 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7551 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7552 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7554 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7555 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7556 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7559 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7560 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7561 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7563 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7564 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7565 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7566 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7568 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7569 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7570 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
7571 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7573 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7574 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7575 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7576 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7577 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7578 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7581 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7582 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7583 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7586 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7587 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7588 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7589 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7590 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7592 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7593 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7594 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7595 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7596 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7598 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7599 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7600 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7601 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7602 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7603 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7605 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
7606 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
7607 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
7610 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7611 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7612 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7614 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7615 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7616 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7618 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7619 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7620 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7623 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7624 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7625 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7626 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7627 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7628 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7629 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7630 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7632 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7633 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7634 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7635 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7637 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7638 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7639 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7640 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7641 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7642 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7643 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7644 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7645 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7646 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7648 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7649 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7650 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7651 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7652 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7653 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7655 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7656 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7657 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7658 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7659 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7661 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7662 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7663 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7666 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
7667 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7668 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
7669 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
7672 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
7673 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
7674 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
7677 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7678 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7679 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7680 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7681 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7684 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7685 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7686 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7687 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7688 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7689 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7690 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7692 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7693 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
7694 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
7697 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7698 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7699 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7700 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7701 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7704 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7705 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7706 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7707 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7708 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7710 o Minor features (geoip):
7711 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7712 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
7714 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7715 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7716 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7717 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7718 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7719 Closes ticket 28973.
7721 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7722 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7723 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7724 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7726 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7727 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7728 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7729 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7730 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7733 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7734 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7735 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7736 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7738 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7739 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7740 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7742 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7743 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
7744 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
7745 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
7747 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7748 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7749 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7750 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7751 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7752 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7755 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7756 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7757 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7759 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7760 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7761 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7762 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7763 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7765 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7766 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7767 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7768 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7769 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7770 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7772 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7773 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7774 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7775 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7777 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7778 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7779 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7782 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
7783 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
7784 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
7785 affecting directory caches.
7787 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
7788 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
7789 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
7790 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
7791 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
7792 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
7793 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
7794 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
7796 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
7797 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
7798 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
7799 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
7800 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
7801 so it will recognize them.
7803 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
7804 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
7805 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
7806 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
7807 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
7808 with the latest stable release.)
7810 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
7811 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7813 o Major features (bootstrap):
7814 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
7815 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
7816 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
7817 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
7819 o Major features (new code layout):
7820 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
7821 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
7822 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
7823 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
7824 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
7825 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
7826 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
7828 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
7829 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
7830 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
7832 o Major features (onion services v3):
7833 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
7834 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
7835 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
7836 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
7837 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
7838 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
7839 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
7840 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
7841 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
7842 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
7843 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
7844 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
7845 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
7846 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
7847 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
7848 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
7849 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
7850 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
7852 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
7853 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
7854 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
7855 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
7856 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
7857 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
7859 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
7860 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
7861 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
7862 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
7863 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
7864 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
7865 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
7867 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
7868 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
7869 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
7870 (if present), and restart Tor.
7872 o Major features (relay, UI change):
7873 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
7874 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
7875 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
7876 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
7877 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7878 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
7879 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
7881 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
7882 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
7883 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7885 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
7886 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
7887 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
7888 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
7889 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
7890 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7892 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
7893 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
7894 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
7895 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
7898 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
7899 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
7900 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
7901 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
7902 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7904 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
7905 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
7906 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
7907 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
7908 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7910 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
7911 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
7912 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
7913 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
7914 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
7915 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
7917 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
7918 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7919 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7920 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7921 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7924 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
7925 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
7926 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
7927 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
7928 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
7929 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
7931 o Major bugfixes (relay):
7932 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
7933 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
7934 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
7935 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
7937 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7938 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7939 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7940 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7941 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7942 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7944 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
7945 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7946 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7947 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7949 o Minor features (admin tools):
7950 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
7951 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
7954 o Minor features (build):
7955 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
7956 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
7957 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
7958 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
7960 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
7961 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
7962 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
7963 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
7964 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
7966 o Minor features (code layout):
7967 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
7968 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
7969 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
7970 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
7973 o Minor features (compilation):
7974 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
7975 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
7976 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
7977 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
7978 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
7979 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
7982 o Minor features (config):
7983 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
7986 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7987 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
7989 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
7990 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
7991 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7992 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7993 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7994 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
7995 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
7997 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
7998 Implements ticket 27252.
7999 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8000 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8001 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8002 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8003 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8004 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8005 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8006 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8007 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8009 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
8010 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8011 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8013 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
8014 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
8016 o Minor features (controller):
8017 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
8018 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
8019 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
8020 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
8021 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8022 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8023 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8024 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8026 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
8027 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
8028 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
8029 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
8031 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8032 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
8033 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
8034 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8036 o Minor features (development):
8037 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
8038 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
8040 o Minor features (directory authority):
8041 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
8042 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
8043 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
8044 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
8046 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
8047 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
8050 o Minor features (embedding API):
8051 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
8052 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
8053 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
8054 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
8055 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
8056 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
8059 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8060 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8061 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8062 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8063 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8065 o Minor features (geoip):
8066 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8067 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8069 o Minor features (memory management):
8070 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
8071 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
8074 o Minor features (memory usage):
8075 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
8076 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
8077 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
8079 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
8080 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8081 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8082 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8083 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8084 Closes ticket 28973.
8086 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
8087 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
8088 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
8090 o Minor features (performance):
8091 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
8092 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
8093 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
8094 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
8095 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
8096 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
8097 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
8098 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
8099 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
8100 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
8102 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
8103 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
8104 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
8105 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
8107 o Minor features (testing):
8108 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
8109 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
8111 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
8112 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
8113 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
8115 o Minor features (UI):
8116 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
8117 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
8118 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
8119 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
8120 Closes ticket 26703.
8122 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
8123 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8124 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8125 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8126 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8128 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8129 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8130 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8131 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8132 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8135 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8136 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
8137 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
8138 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8140 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8141 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
8142 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
8143 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8144 - Use time_t for all values in
8145 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
8146 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
8147 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8149 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
8150 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
8151 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
8152 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
8153 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
8156 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
8157 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
8158 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
8159 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
8160 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
8161 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8163 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
8164 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
8165 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
8166 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8168 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
8169 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8170 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8173 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8174 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8175 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8176 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8178 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8179 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
8180 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
8183 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
8184 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
8185 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
8186 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
8187 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
8189 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
8190 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8191 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8192 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8193 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8196 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8197 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8198 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8199 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8200 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8201 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8202 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8203 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8204 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8205 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8206 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8207 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8208 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8210 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8211 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8212 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8214 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8215 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
8216 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
8217 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
8218 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
8221 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8222 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
8223 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
8224 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
8225 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8227 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
8228 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8229 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8231 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
8232 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8233 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8234 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8235 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8236 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8239 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8240 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8241 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8244 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
8245 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
8246 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
8247 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
8248 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8250 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8251 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
8252 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
8255 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8256 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
8257 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
8259 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
8260 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
8261 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
8262 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8263 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
8264 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
8266 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
8267 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
8268 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
8269 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
8270 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8272 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8273 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8274 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8275 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
8276 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8278 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
8279 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8280 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8282 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
8283 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
8284 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
8285 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
8288 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8289 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8290 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8291 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8292 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8293 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8294 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
8295 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
8296 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
8298 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
8299 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
8301 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8302 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8303 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8304 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8305 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8306 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8307 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8308 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8309 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8310 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8311 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8313 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
8314 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
8315 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
8316 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8318 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
8319 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
8320 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
8321 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
8322 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
8324 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
8325 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
8326 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
8327 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
8329 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
8330 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8331 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8334 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
8335 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
8337 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8338 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8339 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8340 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8341 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8342 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8343 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8344 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8345 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8346 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8348 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
8349 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
8350 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
8351 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
8352 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8354 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
8355 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8356 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8357 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8359 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8360 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
8361 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
8362 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
8363 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
8364 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8365 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8366 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
8367 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
8368 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8370 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8371 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
8372 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
8373 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8374 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8375 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8376 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8377 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8378 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8380 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
8381 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
8382 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8383 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
8384 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8385 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8386 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8387 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8388 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8389 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8390 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
8391 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
8392 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8393 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
8394 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8396 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
8397 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
8398 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
8399 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
8400 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
8401 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
8402 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
8403 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
8405 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
8406 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
8407 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
8408 reported by Keifer Bly.
8410 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8411 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
8412 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
8414 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
8415 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
8416 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
8417 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
8418 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
8419 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
8420 Closes ticket 27814.
8421 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
8422 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
8423 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
8424 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
8425 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
8426 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
8427 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
8428 Closes ticket 27799.
8429 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
8430 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
8431 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
8432 directory within the top-level src directory.
8433 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
8434 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
8435 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
8436 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
8437 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
8438 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
8439 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
8440 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
8441 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
8442 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
8443 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
8444 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
8445 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
8446 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
8447 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
8448 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
8449 Closes ticket 21349.
8450 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
8451 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
8452 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
8453 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
8454 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
8455 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
8456 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
8458 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
8459 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
8460 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
8463 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
8464 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
8465 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
8466 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
8467 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
8468 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
8469 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
8470 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
8471 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
8474 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
8475 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
8476 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
8477 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
8478 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
8479 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
8480 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
8481 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
8482 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
8483 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
8484 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
8485 Closes ticket 26367.
8488 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
8489 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
8491 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
8492 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
8493 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
8494 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
8495 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
8496 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
8497 Closes ticket 19566.
8499 o Documentation (onion services):
8500 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
8501 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
8502 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
8503 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
8504 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
8505 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
8506 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
8507 process. Closes ticket 28275.
8510 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
8511 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8512 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
8513 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
8514 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
8516 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8517 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8518 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8520 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8521 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8522 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8523 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8524 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8526 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8527 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8528 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8529 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8530 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8533 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8534 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8535 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8536 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8538 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8539 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8540 Implements ticket 27252.
8541 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8542 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8543 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8544 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8545 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8546 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8547 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8549 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8550 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8551 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8552 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8554 o Minor features (geoip):
8555 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8556 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
8558 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8559 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8560 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8561 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8562 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8564 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8565 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8566 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8567 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8568 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8571 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8572 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8573 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8576 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8577 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8578 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8579 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8580 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8582 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8583 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8584 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8586 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8587 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8588 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8590 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8591 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8592 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8593 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8595 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8596 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8597 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8599 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8600 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8601 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8604 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8605 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8606 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8608 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8609 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8610 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8613 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8614 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8615 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8616 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8617 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8619 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8620 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8621 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8622 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8623 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8624 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8626 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8627 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8628 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8631 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8632 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8633 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8634 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8635 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8636 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8637 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8638 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8640 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8641 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8642 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8643 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8645 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8646 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8647 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8648 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8649 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8651 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8652 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8653 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8654 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8655 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8656 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8658 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8659 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8660 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8661 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8662 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8663 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8665 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8666 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8667 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8668 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8671 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8672 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8673 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8674 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8675 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8678 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
8679 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
8681 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8682 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8683 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8684 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8686 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8687 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8689 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8690 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8691 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8692 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8694 o Minor features (geoip):
8695 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8696 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8698 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8699 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8700 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8701 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8703 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8704 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8705 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8706 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8707 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8708 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8709 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8710 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8713 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8714 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8715 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8716 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8718 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8719 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8720 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8721 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8723 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8724 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8725 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8726 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8728 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8729 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8730 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8731 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8732 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8734 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8735 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8736 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8739 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8740 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8741 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8742 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8743 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8745 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8746 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8747 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8750 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8751 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8752 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8753 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8755 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8756 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8757 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8759 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8760 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8761 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8764 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8765 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8766 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8767 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8768 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8770 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8771 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8772 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8775 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
8776 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8778 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8779 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8780 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8781 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8783 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8784 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8786 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8787 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8788 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8789 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8791 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8792 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8795 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8796 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8797 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8798 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8800 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8801 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8802 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8803 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8805 o Minor features (geoip):
8806 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8807 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8809 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8810 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8811 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8812 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8813 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8814 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8815 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8817 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8818 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8819 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8820 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8821 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8822 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8823 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8824 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8827 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8828 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8829 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8830 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8832 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8833 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8834 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8835 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8837 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8838 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8839 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8840 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8841 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8843 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8844 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8845 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8846 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8847 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8849 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8850 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8851 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8854 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8855 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8856 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8857 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8858 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8860 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8861 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
8862 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
8865 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8866 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
8867 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
8870 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8871 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8872 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8875 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8876 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
8878 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
8879 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
8880 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
8881 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8883 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8884 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8885 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8886 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8888 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8889 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8890 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8892 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8893 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
8894 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
8895 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
8896 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8897 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8898 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8901 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
8902 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
8903 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
8904 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
8905 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8907 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8908 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8909 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8910 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8911 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8913 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8914 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8915 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8918 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
8919 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8921 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8922 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
8923 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
8924 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
8926 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8927 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8928 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8929 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8931 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8932 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
8933 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8935 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8936 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8937 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8938 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8940 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8941 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8944 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8945 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8946 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8947 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8949 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8950 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8951 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8952 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8954 o Minor features (geoip):
8955 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8956 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8958 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8959 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8960 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8961 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8962 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8963 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8964 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8966 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8967 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8968 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8969 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8970 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8971 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8972 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8973 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8976 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8977 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8978 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8979 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8981 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8982 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8983 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8984 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8986 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8987 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
8988 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8989 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8990 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8992 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8993 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8994 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8995 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8996 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8998 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8999 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9000 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9003 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9004 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9005 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9006 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9008 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9009 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9010 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9011 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9012 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9014 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9015 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9016 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9019 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9020 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9021 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9024 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9025 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9026 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9029 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9030 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9031 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9032 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9034 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9035 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9036 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9039 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9040 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9042 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9043 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9044 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9045 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9046 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9047 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9048 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9050 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9051 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9052 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9053 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9054 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9056 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9057 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9058 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9059 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9061 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9062 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9063 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9065 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9066 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9067 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9068 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9069 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9070 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9071 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9074 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9075 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9076 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9077 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9078 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9080 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9081 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9082 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9083 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9084 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9086 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9087 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9088 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9091 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
9092 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9093 compilation and portability fixes.
9095 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
9096 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
9097 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
9098 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
9099 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
9100 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
9101 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
9102 our anti-denial-of-service code.
9104 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
9105 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9107 o New system requirements:
9108 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
9109 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
9110 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
9111 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
9113 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
9114 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
9115 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
9116 To disable the module, the configure option
9117 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
9118 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
9120 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
9121 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
9122 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
9123 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
9124 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
9125 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
9126 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
9127 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
9128 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
9129 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
9130 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
9132 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
9133 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
9134 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
9135 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
9136 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
9137 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
9138 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
9139 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
9140 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
9141 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
9142 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
9143 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
9144 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
9145 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
9146 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
9147 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
9148 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
9149 Tor's uptime (26009).
9151 o Minor features (accounting):
9152 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
9153 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
9154 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
9155 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
9157 o Minor features (bug workaround):
9158 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9159 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9160 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9162 o Minor features (code quality):
9163 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
9164 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
9165 Closes ticket 25024.
9167 o Minor features (compatibility):
9168 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9169 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9170 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9171 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
9172 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
9173 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
9175 o Minor features (compilation):
9176 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9177 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9178 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9179 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9180 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9181 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9182 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9183 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9186 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
9187 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
9188 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
9189 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
9190 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
9191 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
9193 o Minor features (configuration):
9194 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
9195 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
9196 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
9197 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
9198 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
9200 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9201 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
9202 Implements ticket 27449.
9203 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
9204 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
9206 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9207 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9209 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9210 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9211 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
9212 Implements ticket 27275.
9213 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9214 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9215 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
9216 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
9217 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
9219 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
9220 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9223 o Minor features (control port):
9224 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
9225 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
9226 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
9227 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9228 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
9229 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
9230 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
9231 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
9232 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
9233 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
9235 o Minor features (controller):
9236 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9237 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9238 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9240 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9241 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
9242 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
9243 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
9244 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9245 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9246 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9248 o Minor features (directory authority):
9249 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
9250 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
9251 Closes ticket 23909.
9253 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
9254 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
9255 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
9256 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
9258 o Minor features (entry guards):
9259 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
9260 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
9262 o Minor features (geoip):
9263 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9264 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9266 o Minor features (performance):
9267 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
9268 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
9269 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
9270 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
9272 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
9273 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
9275 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
9276 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
9278 o Minor features (testing):
9279 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
9280 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
9282 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
9283 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
9284 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
9285 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
9286 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
9287 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
9289 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
9290 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
9291 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
9292 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
9293 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9295 o Minor features (unit tests):
9296 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
9297 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
9298 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
9301 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
9302 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
9303 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
9304 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
9305 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
9306 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
9308 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9309 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
9310 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
9311 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
9313 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9314 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
9315 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9316 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
9317 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
9319 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9320 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9321 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9322 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9323 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9324 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9325 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9326 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9328 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9329 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9330 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9331 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9332 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
9333 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
9334 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9335 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
9336 Closes ticket 26245.
9337 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
9338 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
9339 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9341 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
9342 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9343 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9344 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9346 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9347 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9348 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9349 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9350 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9352 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9353 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
9354 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
9355 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
9356 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9357 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
9358 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
9359 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9360 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
9361 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
9362 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
9363 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9365 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
9366 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
9367 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
9370 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9371 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9372 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9375 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9376 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
9377 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9378 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
9379 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
9380 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
9383 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
9384 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
9385 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
9386 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
9387 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
9388 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
9389 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9391 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
9392 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9393 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9394 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9396 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9397 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9398 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9399 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9400 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9402 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9403 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9404 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9407 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9408 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9409 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9411 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9412 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9414 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
9415 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
9416 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
9417 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
9418 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9420 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9421 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9422 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9424 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9425 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9426 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9427 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
9428 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
9431 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
9432 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
9433 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
9434 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9436 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9437 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
9438 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
9439 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
9440 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
9441 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
9442 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
9444 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
9445 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9447 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9448 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9449 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9450 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9451 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9453 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9454 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9455 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9456 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9457 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9459 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
9460 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
9461 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
9462 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9464 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
9465 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
9466 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
9467 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
9470 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9471 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9472 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9473 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
9474 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
9475 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
9476 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
9477 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9478 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
9479 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
9481 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
9482 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
9483 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9484 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
9485 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
9486 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
9487 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
9489 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
9490 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
9491 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
9492 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
9493 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
9495 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
9496 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
9497 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
9500 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
9501 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
9502 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
9503 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
9504 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9506 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
9507 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9508 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9509 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9510 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9511 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9512 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9515 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9516 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9517 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9518 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9519 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9521 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
9522 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9523 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9524 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9525 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9527 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
9528 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
9529 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
9530 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
9531 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
9532 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9534 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
9535 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9536 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9538 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9539 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
9540 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
9541 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9542 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
9543 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
9544 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
9545 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
9547 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
9548 confusing we renamed some functions and
9549 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
9550 router_should_check_reachability() and
9551 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
9552 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
9553 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
9554 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
9555 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
9557 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
9558 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
9560 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
9561 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
9562 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9563 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
9564 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
9565 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
9566 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
9567 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
9568 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
9569 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
9570 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
9571 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
9572 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
9573 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
9574 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
9575 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9576 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
9577 Closes ticket 25766.
9578 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
9579 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
9580 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
9581 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
9582 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
9583 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9584 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
9585 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
9586 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
9587 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
9588 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9589 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
9590 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
9591 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
9593 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
9594 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
9595 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
9596 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
9597 before. Closes ticket 26016.
9598 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
9599 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
9600 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
9601 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
9603 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
9604 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
9605 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
9606 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9608 o Deprecated features:
9609 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
9610 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
9611 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
9612 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
9613 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
9614 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
9617 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
9618 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
9619 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
9620 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
9621 24378 and proposal 290.
9622 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
9623 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
9624 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
9625 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
9626 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
9627 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
9628 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
9629 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
9630 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
9631 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
9632 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
9633 their local router. Closes 25409.
9634 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
9635 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
9636 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
9637 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
9638 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
9639 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
9640 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
9641 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
9642 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
9643 Closes ticket 25268.
9646 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
9647 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9648 bridge relays should upgrade.
9650 o Directory authority changes:
9651 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9652 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9653 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9656 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
9657 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9658 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9661 o Directory authority changes:
9662 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9663 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9664 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9666 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9667 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9668 Closes ticket 26343.
9670 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9671 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9672 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9673 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9674 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9676 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9677 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9678 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9680 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9681 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9682 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9683 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9685 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9686 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9687 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9689 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9690 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9691 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9692 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9693 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9694 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9696 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9697 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9698 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9699 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9701 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9702 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9703 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9706 o Minor features (geoip):
9707 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9708 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9710 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9711 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9712 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9713 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9714 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9716 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9717 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9718 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9720 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9721 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9722 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9723 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9724 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9725 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9726 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9727 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9730 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9731 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9732 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9733 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9734 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9735 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9737 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9738 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
9739 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
9740 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
9741 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9743 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9744 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9745 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9746 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9747 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9749 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9750 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9751 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9754 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9755 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9756 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9758 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9759 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9760 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9761 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9763 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9764 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9765 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9766 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9767 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9768 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9769 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9771 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9772 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9773 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9774 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9777 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9778 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9779 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9781 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9782 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9783 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9785 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9786 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
9787 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
9788 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
9791 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9792 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
9793 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
9794 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9796 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9797 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9798 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9800 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9801 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9802 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9805 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
9806 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9807 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9810 o Directory authority changes:
9811 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9812 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9813 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9815 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9816 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9817 Closes ticket 26343.
9819 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9820 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9821 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9822 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9823 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9825 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9826 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9827 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9828 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9830 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9831 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9832 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9833 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9834 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9835 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9837 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9838 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9839 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9842 o Minor features (geoip):
9843 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9844 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9846 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9847 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9848 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9849 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9850 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9852 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9853 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9854 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9856 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9857 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9858 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9859 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9862 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9863 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9864 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9865 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9866 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9867 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9869 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9870 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9871 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9872 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9873 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9875 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9876 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9877 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9880 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9881 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9882 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9884 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9885 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9886 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9887 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9889 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9890 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9891 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9893 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9894 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9895 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9898 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
9899 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9900 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
9902 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9903 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
9904 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
9905 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9907 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9908 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
9909 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
9912 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9913 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9914 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9917 o Minor features (geoip):
9918 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9919 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9921 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9922 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9923 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9924 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9926 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9927 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
9928 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
9929 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
9930 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
9933 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9934 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9935 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9936 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9937 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9939 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9940 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
9941 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
9942 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9944 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9945 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9946 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9948 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9949 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9950 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9951 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9954 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9955 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
9956 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
9957 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9959 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9960 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9961 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9962 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9963 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9964 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9965 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9966 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9970 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
9971 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9972 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
9974 o Directory authority changes:
9975 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9976 Closes ticket 26343.
9978 o Minor features (geoip):
9979 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9980 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
9982 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9983 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9984 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9985 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9986 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9987 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9989 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9990 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9991 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9993 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9994 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
9995 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
9996 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
9997 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9999 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10000 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10001 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10003 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10004 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10005 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10006 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10007 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10008 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10011 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
10012 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
10013 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10015 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
10016 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
10017 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
10018 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
10019 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
10020 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
10022 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
10023 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10025 o New system requirements:
10026 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
10027 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
10029 o Major features (embedding):
10030 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
10031 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
10032 Closes ticket 23684.
10033 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
10034 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
10035 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
10036 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
10037 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
10038 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
10040 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
10041 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
10042 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
10043 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
10045 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
10046 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
10047 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
10048 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
10049 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
10051 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
10052 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
10055 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
10056 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
10057 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
10058 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
10059 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
10060 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
10061 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
10063 o Major features (onion services):
10064 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
10065 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
10066 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
10067 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
10068 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
10070 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
10071 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
10072 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
10073 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
10074 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
10075 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10077 o Major features (relay):
10078 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
10079 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
10080 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
10081 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
10082 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10084 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
10085 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
10086 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
10087 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
10088 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
10089 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
10090 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
10091 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
10093 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10094 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10095 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10096 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10097 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10099 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
10100 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
10101 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
10102 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
10103 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
10105 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10106 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
10107 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
10108 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10110 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
10111 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
10112 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
10113 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
10114 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
10115 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
10116 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
10117 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10119 o Major bugfixes (networking):
10120 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
10121 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
10122 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
10124 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10125 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10126 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10128 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
10129 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
10130 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
10131 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
10132 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
10133 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
10134 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
10136 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10137 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
10138 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
10139 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
10140 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10142 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10143 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
10144 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
10147 o Minor features (cleanup):
10148 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
10149 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
10151 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10152 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
10153 Closes ticket 26006.
10155 o Minor features (config options):
10156 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
10157 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
10158 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
10161 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10162 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10163 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10165 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10166 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10167 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10168 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10169 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10170 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10172 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10173 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
10174 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
10175 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
10176 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
10177 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
10178 once. Part of ticket 24337.
10179 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
10180 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
10181 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
10183 o Minor features (directory authority):
10184 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
10185 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
10187 o Minor features (embedding):
10188 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
10189 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
10190 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
10191 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
10192 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
10193 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
10194 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
10195 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
10196 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
10197 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
10198 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
10199 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
10200 Closes ticket 23848.
10201 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
10202 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
10203 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
10205 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10206 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
10207 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
10208 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
10209 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
10210 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
10211 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
10212 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
10215 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
10216 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
10217 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
10218 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
10219 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
10220 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
10221 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
10223 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
10224 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
10225 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
10226 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
10227 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
10228 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
10229 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
10230 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
10231 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
10232 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
10233 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
10234 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
10236 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
10237 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
10238 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
10240 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
10241 Implements ticket 24791.
10243 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
10244 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
10245 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
10246 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
10247 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
10248 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
10250 o Minor features (geoip):
10251 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
10252 database. Closes ticket 26104.
10254 o Minor features (heartbeat):
10255 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
10256 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
10259 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
10260 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
10261 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
10262 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
10263 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
10265 o Minor features (IPv6):
10266 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
10267 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
10268 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
10269 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
10270 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
10273 o Minor features (log messages):
10274 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
10275 information about memory usage from the different compression
10276 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
10277 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
10278 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
10279 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
10280 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
10282 o Minor features (logging):
10283 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
10284 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
10285 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
10288 o Minor features (performance):
10289 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
10290 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
10291 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
10292 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
10294 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
10295 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10296 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
10297 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
10298 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10299 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
10300 Implements ticket 24374.
10302 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
10303 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
10304 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
10305 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
10306 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
10308 o Minor features (performance, windows):
10309 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
10310 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
10311 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
10314 o Minor features (sandbox):
10315 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10316 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10317 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10319 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
10320 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
10321 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
10322 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
10323 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
10325 o Minor features (testing):
10326 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
10329 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
10330 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
10331 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
10332 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
10333 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
10334 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
10335 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
10336 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
10337 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
10339 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
10340 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
10341 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
10342 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
10343 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
10344 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
10345 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10346 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
10347 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
10350 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10351 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10352 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10353 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10355 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
10356 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
10357 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10359 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
10360 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
10361 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
10362 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
10363 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10365 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10366 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10367 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10370 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10371 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10372 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10373 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10375 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10376 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
10377 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
10378 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10379 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
10380 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
10381 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10383 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10384 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
10385 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
10386 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10388 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10389 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10390 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10391 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10392 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10394 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
10395 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
10396 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
10397 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
10400 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10401 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10402 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10403 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10404 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10406 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10407 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
10408 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
10409 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
10410 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
10413 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
10414 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
10415 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
10416 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
10417 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
10419 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
10420 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
10421 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
10424 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
10425 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
10426 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
10428 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
10429 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10430 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
10431 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
10432 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
10434 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
10435 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
10436 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
10437 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10439 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
10440 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
10441 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10442 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
10443 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
10444 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10446 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10447 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
10448 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
10449 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
10451 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10452 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10453 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10455 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10456 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
10457 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
10458 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10460 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
10461 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
10462 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
10463 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
10466 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10467 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
10468 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
10469 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
10470 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10471 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
10474 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
10475 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
10476 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
10477 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10479 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
10480 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
10481 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
10483 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10484 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
10485 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
10486 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
10487 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
10488 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10490 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10491 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10492 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10493 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10494 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10495 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10496 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10498 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10499 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
10500 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
10501 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
10503 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10504 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
10505 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
10506 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
10507 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
10509 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
10510 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
10511 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
10512 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
10513 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
10514 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10516 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
10517 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
10518 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
10519 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
10520 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
10521 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10522 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
10523 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
10524 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
10525 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
10526 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
10527 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10529 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10530 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10531 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10533 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
10534 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
10535 would call the Rust implementation of
10536 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
10537 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
10538 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
10539 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
10540 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10542 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
10543 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
10544 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
10545 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
10547 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10548 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10549 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10550 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10552 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
10553 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10555 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
10556 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
10557 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
10558 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
10559 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
10560 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10562 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10563 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10564 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10565 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
10566 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
10568 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
10570 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
10571 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
10572 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
10574 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
10576 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
10577 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
10578 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
10579 "aruna1234" and teor.
10580 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
10581 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
10582 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
10583 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
10585 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
10586 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
10587 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
10588 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
10589 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
10590 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
10591 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
10592 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
10593 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
10594 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
10596 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
10597 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
10600 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
10602 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
10603 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
10604 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
10605 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
10607 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
10608 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
10609 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
10610 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
10612 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
10613 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
10614 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
10615 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
10616 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
10618 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
10619 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
10620 adding very little except for unit test.
10622 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
10623 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
10624 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
10625 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
10627 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
10628 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
10629 const. Implements ticket 24489.
10631 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10632 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
10633 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
10635 o Documentation (man page):
10636 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
10637 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
10640 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
10641 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
10642 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
10646 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
10647 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
10650 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10651 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10653 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10654 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10656 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10659 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10660 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
10661 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10663 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
10664 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
10665 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
10666 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
10669 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10670 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10671 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10672 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10675 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10676 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10677 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10678 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10679 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10680 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10681 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10682 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10683 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10684 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10685 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10686 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10687 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10689 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10690 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10691 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10693 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10694 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10695 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10696 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10697 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10698 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10699 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10701 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10702 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10703 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10705 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10706 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10707 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10708 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10709 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10710 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10711 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10713 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10714 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10715 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10716 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10718 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10719 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10720 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10721 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10723 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10724 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10725 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10726 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10727 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10728 Closes ticket 24978.
10730 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10731 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10732 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10733 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10734 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10735 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10736 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10737 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10738 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10740 o Minor features (geoip):
10741 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10744 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10745 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10746 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10747 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10748 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10750 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10751 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10752 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10753 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10754 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10756 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10757 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10758 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10759 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10760 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10763 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10764 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10765 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10766 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10767 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10768 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10769 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10770 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10771 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10772 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
10773 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
10776 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
10777 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10778 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10780 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10781 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10782 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10785 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10786 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10787 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10788 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10789 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10790 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10791 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10793 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10794 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
10795 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10796 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
10797 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
10798 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
10799 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
10800 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
10801 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
10804 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
10805 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
10806 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
10807 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
10808 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
10809 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10811 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10812 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
10813 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
10814 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10816 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
10817 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
10818 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
10819 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
10820 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
10823 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10824 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
10825 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
10826 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
10827 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
10828 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10830 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
10831 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
10832 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
10833 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
10834 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
10835 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
10836 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10837 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
10838 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
10839 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10840 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
10841 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
10843 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10844 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
10845 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
10846 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10848 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10849 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
10850 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
10851 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10853 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10854 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
10855 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
10856 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
10859 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
10860 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
10861 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
10862 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
10863 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
10865 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10866 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
10868 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
10869 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10871 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10872 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
10873 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
10876 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
10877 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
10878 later Tor releases.
10880 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10881 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10883 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10884 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10886 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10889 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10890 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
10891 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10893 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10894 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10895 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10896 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10899 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
10900 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10901 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10902 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10903 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10904 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10905 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10906 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10907 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10908 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10909 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10910 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10911 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10913 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
10914 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10915 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10916 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10917 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10918 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10919 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10920 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10921 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10923 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
10924 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10925 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10926 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10927 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10928 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10929 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10931 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
10932 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10933 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10934 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10936 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
10937 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10938 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10939 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10940 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10941 Closes ticket 24978.
10943 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10944 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10945 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10946 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10948 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
10949 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10950 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10951 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10952 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10953 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10954 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10955 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10956 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10958 o Minor features (geoip):
10959 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10962 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10963 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10964 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10966 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
10967 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10968 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10969 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10970 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10972 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
10973 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10974 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10975 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10976 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10978 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
10979 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10980 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10981 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10982 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10985 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10986 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10987 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10989 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10990 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10991 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10994 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10995 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10996 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10997 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10998 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10999 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11000 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11002 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11003 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11004 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11005 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11006 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11009 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11010 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11011 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11012 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11013 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11014 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11016 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11017 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11018 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11019 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11021 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11022 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11023 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11024 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11025 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11026 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11027 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11028 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11029 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11030 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11031 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11032 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11034 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11035 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11036 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11037 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11040 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11041 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11042 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11043 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11044 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11046 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11047 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11049 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11050 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11053 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
11054 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
11055 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
11058 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11059 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11061 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
11062 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
11063 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
11064 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
11065 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
11066 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
11069 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11070 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11072 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11075 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
11076 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
11077 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
11078 the DoS mitigations.)
11080 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11081 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11082 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11083 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11086 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11087 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
11088 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
11089 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11091 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11092 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11093 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11094 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11095 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11096 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11097 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11098 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11099 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11100 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11101 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11102 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11103 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11105 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11106 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11107 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11108 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11109 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11110 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11111 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11112 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
11113 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
11114 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
11115 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11117 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11118 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11119 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11121 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11122 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11123 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11124 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11125 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11126 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11127 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11129 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11130 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
11131 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
11132 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11134 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11135 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11136 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11137 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11139 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11140 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11141 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11142 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11143 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11144 Closes ticket 24978.
11146 o Minor features (geoip):
11147 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11150 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11151 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
11152 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
11155 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11156 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11157 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11158 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11159 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11161 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11162 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11163 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11164 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11165 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11166 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11167 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11169 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11170 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11171 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11172 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11173 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11175 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11176 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
11177 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
11178 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11180 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11181 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
11182 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
11183 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
11184 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11186 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11187 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11188 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11189 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11191 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11192 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11193 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11194 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11196 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11197 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11198 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11199 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11201 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11202 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11204 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11205 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11207 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11208 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
11209 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
11211 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11212 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
11213 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
11214 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
11215 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11217 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11218 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11219 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11221 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
11222 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
11223 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
11227 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
11228 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
11230 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
11231 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
11232 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
11233 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
11234 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
11235 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
11237 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11238 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11239 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11240 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11241 with the 0.2.9 series.
11243 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
11244 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11246 o Directory authority changes:
11247 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11248 Closes ticket 23910.
11249 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11250 Closes ticket 23592.
11251 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11252 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11253 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11254 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11255 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11258 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
11259 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
11260 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
11261 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
11262 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
11263 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
11266 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
11267 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
11269 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
11272 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
11275 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
11277 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
11279 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
11281 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
11282 they are 56 characters long, as in
11283 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
11285 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
11286 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
11287 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
11288 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
11289 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
11292 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
11293 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
11294 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
11295 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
11296 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
11297 options. For more information, see our blog post at
11298 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
11300 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
11301 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
11302 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
11303 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
11304 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
11305 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
11306 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
11307 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
11308 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
11309 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
11310 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
11311 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
11313 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
11314 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
11315 more information, see the design paper at
11316 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
11317 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
11318 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
11319 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
11321 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
11322 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11323 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11324 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11325 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11326 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11327 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11328 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11330 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
11331 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11332 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11333 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11336 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
11337 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11338 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11339 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11340 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11341 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11342 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11343 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11344 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11345 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11346 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11347 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11350 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
11351 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11352 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11353 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11354 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11355 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11356 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11357 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11358 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11360 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11361 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11362 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11363 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11364 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11365 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11366 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11367 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11368 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11369 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11370 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11373 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
11374 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
11375 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
11376 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
11377 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
11378 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
11379 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11381 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
11382 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11383 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11384 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11385 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11386 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11389 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
11390 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11391 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11392 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11394 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
11395 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
11396 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
11397 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
11399 o Minor features (bridge):
11400 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
11401 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
11402 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
11403 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
11404 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
11405 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
11406 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
11407 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
11408 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
11409 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
11410 related to ticket 23080.
11412 o Minor features (bug detection):
11413 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
11414 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
11415 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
11417 o Minor features (build, compilation):
11418 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
11419 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
11420 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
11421 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
11422 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
11423 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
11424 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
11425 Closes ticket 23643.
11427 o Minor features (client):
11428 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
11429 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
11430 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
11431 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
11432 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
11433 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
11434 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
11435 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
11436 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
11437 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
11438 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
11439 Resolves ticket 23670.
11441 o Minor features (command line):
11442 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
11443 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
11444 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
11446 o Minor features (control port):
11447 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
11448 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
11449 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
11451 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
11452 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
11454 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
11455 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
11456 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
11457 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
11458 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
11459 Closes ticket 23237.
11460 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
11461 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
11463 o Minor features (development support):
11464 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
11465 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
11466 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
11467 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
11468 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
11469 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
11471 o Minor features (directory authority):
11472 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
11473 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
11474 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
11475 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
11477 o Minor features (ed25519):
11478 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
11479 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
11480 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
11482 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
11483 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
11484 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
11486 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11487 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11488 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11489 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11490 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11491 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11492 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11493 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11494 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11496 o Minor features (geoip):
11497 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11500 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
11501 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
11502 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
11503 another program, regardless of the settings of
11504 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
11505 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
11506 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
11508 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11509 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11510 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11512 o Minor features (logging):
11513 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
11515 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
11516 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
11518 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
11519 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
11520 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
11521 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
11522 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
11523 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
11524 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
11525 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
11526 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
11527 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
11529 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
11530 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
11532 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
11533 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
11534 the circuit identifier(s).
11535 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
11536 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
11538 o Minor features (portability):
11539 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
11540 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
11542 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
11543 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
11544 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
11545 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
11547 o Minor features (relay):
11548 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
11549 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
11550 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
11551 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
11552 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
11553 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
11554 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
11555 results. Closes ticket 22731.
11557 o Minor features (relay statistics):
11558 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11559 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11560 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11562 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
11563 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
11564 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
11565 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
11566 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
11568 o Minor features (robustness):
11569 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
11570 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
11572 o Minor features (startup, safety):
11573 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
11574 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
11577 o Minor features (static analysis):
11578 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
11579 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
11582 o Minor features (testing):
11583 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
11584 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
11585 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
11586 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
11588 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
11589 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
11590 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
11591 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
11592 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
11594 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11595 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11596 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11597 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11598 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11601 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11602 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
11603 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
11606 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
11607 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
11608 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
11609 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
11610 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11611 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
11612 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
11613 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
11614 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11615 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
11616 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
11617 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
11618 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11620 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
11621 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
11622 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
11623 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11625 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
11626 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
11627 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
11628 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
11629 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
11630 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
11631 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
11632 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
11633 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11634 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11635 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11636 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
11637 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
11638 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
11639 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
11640 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
11641 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
11643 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
11644 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
11645 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
11646 Coverity as CID 1415728.
11648 o Minor bugfixes (client):
11649 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
11650 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
11651 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11653 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
11654 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
11655 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
11656 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
11657 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
11658 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
11659 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
11660 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
11662 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
11663 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
11664 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
11665 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
11666 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11667 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
11668 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
11669 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
11670 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
11671 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
11672 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
11673 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
11674 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
11675 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
11678 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
11679 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
11680 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
11683 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
11684 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
11685 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
11686 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
11688 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11689 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11690 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11693 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
11694 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
11695 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
11696 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
11698 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
11699 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11700 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11701 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11702 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11703 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11704 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11705 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11706 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11709 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
11710 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
11711 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
11712 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
11713 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11715 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
11716 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
11717 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
11718 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
11719 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
11720 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
11722 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
11723 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
11726 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11727 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
11728 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11729 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
11730 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
11731 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11733 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
11734 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
11735 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
11736 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11738 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
11739 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11740 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11741 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11742 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11743 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11745 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
11746 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
11747 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
11748 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
11749 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
11750 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
11751 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
11754 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
11755 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
11756 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
11757 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11759 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11760 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
11761 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
11762 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
11763 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11764 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
11765 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
11766 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11767 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
11768 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
11770 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
11771 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
11772 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
11774 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
11775 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
11776 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
11778 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
11779 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
11780 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
11781 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
11782 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
11783 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
11785 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
11786 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
11787 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
11788 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
11789 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
11790 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
11792 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
11793 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
11794 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11796 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11797 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11798 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11799 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11800 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11803 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11804 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11805 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11806 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11807 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11808 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11810 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11811 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
11812 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
11813 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
11814 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
11815 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
11816 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
11818 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
11819 only fetch the service descriptor once.
11820 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
11821 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
11822 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11823 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
11824 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
11825 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
11826 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
11828 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11829 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11830 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11831 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11832 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11833 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11834 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11835 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11836 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11837 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11838 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11839 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11841 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11842 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
11843 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11844 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11845 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11846 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11849 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11850 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
11851 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
11852 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
11853 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
11854 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
11855 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
11856 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11857 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
11858 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
11859 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
11860 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11862 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11863 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
11864 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11865 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
11866 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
11867 Closes ticket 24109.
11868 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
11869 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11870 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
11871 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
11873 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
11874 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
11876 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
11877 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
11878 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
11879 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
11880 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
11881 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
11882 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
11883 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
11884 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
11885 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
11886 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11888 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
11889 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
11890 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
11891 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11893 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11894 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
11895 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
11897 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
11898 function from the general code to handle channel state
11899 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
11900 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
11901 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
11902 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
11903 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
11904 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
11905 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
11906 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
11908 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
11909 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
11911 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
11912 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
11913 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
11914 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
11915 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
11916 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
11917 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
11918 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
11919 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
11920 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
11921 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
11922 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
11924 o Deprecated features:
11925 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
11926 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
11927 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
11928 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
11929 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
11930 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
11934 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
11935 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
11936 section. Closes ticket 24254.
11937 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
11938 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
11939 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
11940 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
11941 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
11942 Closes ticket 18736.
11943 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
11944 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
11945 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
11946 Closes ticket 15645.
11947 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
11948 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
11949 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
11950 file. Closes ticket 21148.
11952 o Removed features:
11953 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
11954 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
11955 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
11956 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
11957 Closes ticket 21031.
11958 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
11959 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
11962 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
11963 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
11964 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
11965 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
11967 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11968 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11969 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11970 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11971 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11972 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11973 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11974 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11975 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11976 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11977 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11979 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11980 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11981 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11982 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11983 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11984 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11985 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11988 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11989 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11990 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11991 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11992 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11994 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11995 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11996 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11997 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11998 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11999 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12000 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12001 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12002 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12004 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12005 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12006 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12007 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12008 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12009 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12012 o Minor features (bridge):
12013 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12014 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12015 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12016 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12019 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12020 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12023 o Minor features (geoip):
12024 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12027 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12028 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12029 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12030 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12031 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12033 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12034 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12035 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12037 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12038 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12039 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12040 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12041 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12042 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12044 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12045 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12046 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12049 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12050 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12051 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12052 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12053 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12056 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
12057 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12058 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12059 to another of the releases coming out today.
12061 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12062 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12063 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12065 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12066 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12067 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12068 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12069 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12070 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12071 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12072 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12073 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12074 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12075 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12077 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12078 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12079 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12080 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12081 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12082 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12083 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12086 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12087 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12088 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12089 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12090 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12092 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12093 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12094 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12095 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12096 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12097 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12098 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12099 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12100 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12102 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12103 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12104 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12105 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12106 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12107 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12110 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12111 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12112 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12113 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12114 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12115 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12117 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12118 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12119 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12120 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12121 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12124 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12125 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12128 o Minor features (geoip):
12129 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12132 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12133 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12134 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12135 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12136 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12138 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12139 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12140 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12142 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12143 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12144 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12145 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12146 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12147 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12149 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12150 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12151 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12152 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12153 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12155 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12156 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12157 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12160 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
12161 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12162 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12163 to another of the releases coming out today.
12165 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12166 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12167 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12168 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12169 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12170 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12173 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12174 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12175 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12176 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12177 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12178 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12179 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12180 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12181 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12182 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12183 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12185 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12186 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12187 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12188 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12189 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12190 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12191 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12194 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12195 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12196 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12197 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12198 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12200 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12201 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12202 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12203 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12204 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12205 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12207 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12208 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12209 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12210 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12211 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12214 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12215 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12218 o Minor features (geoip):
12219 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12222 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12223 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12224 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12225 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12226 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12227 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12229 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12230 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12231 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12232 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12233 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12235 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12236 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12237 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12239 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12240 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12241 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12242 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12243 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12244 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12246 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12247 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12248 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12249 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12250 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12252 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12253 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12254 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12257 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
12258 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12259 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12260 to another of the releases coming out today.
12262 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12263 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
12264 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12266 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12267 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12268 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12269 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12270 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12271 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12272 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12273 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12274 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12275 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12276 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12277 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12278 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12279 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12280 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12283 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12284 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12285 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12286 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12287 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12289 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12290 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
12291 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
12292 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
12293 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
12296 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12297 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12298 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12299 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12300 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12303 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12304 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12307 o Minor features (geoip):
12308 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12311 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12312 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12313 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12316 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
12317 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12318 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12319 to another of the releases coming out today.
12321 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12322 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12323 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12325 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12326 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12327 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12328 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12329 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12330 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12331 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12332 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12333 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12334 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12335 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12336 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12337 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12338 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12339 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12342 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12343 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12344 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12345 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12346 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12347 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12349 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12350 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12351 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12352 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12353 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12356 o Minor features (geoip):
12357 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12361 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
12362 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12363 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12365 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12366 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12367 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12369 o Directory authority changes:
12370 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12371 Closes ticket 23910.
12372 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12373 Closes ticket 23592.
12375 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12376 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12377 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12378 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12379 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12381 o Minor features (geoip):
12382 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12385 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12386 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12387 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12388 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12389 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12390 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12391 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12392 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12393 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12395 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12396 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12397 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12398 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12399 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12400 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12401 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12402 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12403 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12406 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
12407 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12408 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12409 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12411 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12412 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12413 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12415 o Directory authority changes:
12416 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12417 Closes ticket 23910.
12418 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12419 Closes ticket 23592.
12421 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12422 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12423 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12424 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12426 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12427 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12428 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12429 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12430 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12432 o Minor features (geoip):
12433 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12437 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
12438 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12439 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12440 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12442 o Directory authority changes:
12443 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12444 Closes ticket 23910.
12445 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12446 Closes ticket 23592.
12448 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12449 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12450 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12451 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12453 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12454 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12455 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12456 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12457 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12459 o Minor features (geoip):
12460 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12463 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12464 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12465 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12466 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12467 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12468 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12469 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12470 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12473 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12474 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12475 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12477 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12478 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12479 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12480 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12481 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12482 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12483 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12486 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
12487 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12488 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
12489 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12491 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12492 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12493 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12495 o Directory authority changes:
12496 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12497 Closes ticket 23910.
12498 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12499 Closes ticket 23592.
12501 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12502 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12503 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12504 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12506 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12507 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12508 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12509 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12510 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12512 o Minor features (geoip):
12513 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12516 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12517 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
12518 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
12519 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
12520 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
12521 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
12522 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
12523 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
12526 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12527 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12528 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12529 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12531 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12532 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12533 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12535 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12536 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
12537 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
12538 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
12539 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
12540 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12541 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
12544 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
12545 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
12546 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
12547 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
12548 a new directory authority, Bastet.
12550 o Directory authority changes:
12551 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12552 Closes ticket 23910.
12553 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12554 Closes ticket 23592.
12556 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12557 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12558 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12559 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12561 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12562 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12563 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12564 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12565 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12567 o Minor features (geoip):
12568 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12571 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12572 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12573 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12574 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12576 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12577 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12578 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12581 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12582 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
12583 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
12585 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12586 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12587 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12588 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12590 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
12591 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
12592 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12594 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12595 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12596 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12600 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
12601 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12604 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12605 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12606 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12607 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12609 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12610 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
12611 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
12612 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
12614 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12615 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12616 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12617 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12618 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12621 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12624 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12625 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12626 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12629 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12630 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12631 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12632 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12633 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12634 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12635 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12636 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12637 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12639 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12640 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12641 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12642 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12643 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12644 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12645 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12646 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12647 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12650 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
12651 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
12654 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12655 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12656 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12657 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12659 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12660 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
12661 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
12662 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
12663 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
12664 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
12665 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
12667 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12668 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
12669 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
12670 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
12672 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
12673 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
12674 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12676 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12677 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12678 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12679 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12681 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12682 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12683 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12684 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12685 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12687 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
12688 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12689 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12690 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12692 o Minor features (geoip):
12693 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12696 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12697 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
12698 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
12699 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
12701 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12702 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
12703 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12704 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
12705 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12706 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
12707 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
12708 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12710 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12711 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
12712 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12714 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12715 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
12716 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
12719 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12720 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12721 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12722 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
12723 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12725 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12726 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
12727 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
12728 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
12729 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
12730 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12732 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12733 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12734 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12735 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12736 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12737 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12738 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12739 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12740 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12742 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12743 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12744 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12745 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12747 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12748 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
12749 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12751 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12752 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
12753 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
12754 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
12755 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12757 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
12758 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
12759 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
12762 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12763 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
12764 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
12765 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
12766 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
12768 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12769 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12770 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12771 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12772 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12773 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12774 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12775 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12776 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12779 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
12780 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
12783 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
12784 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
12785 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
12786 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12788 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12789 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
12790 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
12791 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
12794 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12797 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12798 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
12799 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12801 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
12802 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
12803 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12804 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
12805 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12807 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12808 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
12809 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
12810 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12812 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12813 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
12814 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
12816 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
12817 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
12818 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
12819 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12822 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
12823 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
12825 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
12826 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
12827 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
12828 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
12829 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
12830 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
12831 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
12833 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
12834 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
12835 disabled. For more information, see
12836 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
12838 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
12839 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
12840 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
12841 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
12842 with the 0.2.9 series.
12844 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
12845 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
12847 o New dependencies:
12848 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
12849 pkg-config tool at build time.
12851 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
12852 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
12853 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
12854 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12855 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
12857 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
12858 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12859 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12860 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12861 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12862 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12863 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12864 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
12865 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
12867 o Major features (directory protocol):
12868 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
12869 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
12870 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
12871 now request these documents when available. When both client and
12872 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
12873 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
12874 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
12875 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
12876 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
12877 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
12878 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
12879 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
12880 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
12881 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
12882 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
12883 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
12884 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
12886 o Major features (experimental):
12887 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
12888 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
12889 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
12890 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
12891 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
12892 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
12893 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
12895 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
12896 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
12897 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
12898 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
12899 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
12900 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
12903 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
12904 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
12905 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
12906 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
12907 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
12908 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
12909 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
12910 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
12911 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
12912 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
12913 multiples of 10000.
12915 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
12916 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
12917 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
12918 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12919 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
12920 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
12921 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
12924 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
12925 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
12926 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
12927 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
12928 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
12929 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
12931 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
12932 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
12933 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
12934 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
12935 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
12936 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
12937 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
12938 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
12939 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
12940 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
12941 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
12942 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
12943 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
12944 Otherwise it is at info.
12946 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
12947 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
12948 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
12949 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12950 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
12951 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
12952 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12954 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
12955 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
12956 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12957 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
12959 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
12960 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12961 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12962 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12963 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12965 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
12966 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
12967 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
12968 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
12969 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
12970 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
12971 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
12974 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
12975 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
12976 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
12977 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
12978 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
12979 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
12980 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
12981 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12982 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
12983 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
12984 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
12985 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
12986 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
12989 o Minor features (security, windows):
12990 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12991 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12992 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12993 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12994 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12996 o Minor features (bridge authority):
12997 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
12998 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
13000 o Minor features (code style):
13001 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13002 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13003 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13005 o Minor features (config options):
13006 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
13007 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
13008 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
13009 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
13010 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
13011 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
13012 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
13013 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
13015 o Minor features (controller):
13016 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
13017 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
13019 o Minor features (defaults):
13020 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
13021 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
13022 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
13023 can. Closes ticket 21407.
13024 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
13025 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
13026 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
13027 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
13028 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
13029 Closes ticket 21641.
13031 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13032 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
13033 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
13034 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
13037 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13038 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
13039 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
13040 attempt for bug 23105.
13041 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
13042 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
13043 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
13044 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
13045 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
13046 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
13047 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
13049 o Minor features (directory authority):
13050 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
13051 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
13052 Closes ticket 22348.
13054 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
13055 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
13056 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
13057 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
13058 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
13061 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13062 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
13063 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
13064 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13065 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13066 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13067 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13069 o Minor features (geoip):
13070 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13073 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
13074 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
13075 introduction points than specified in
13076 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
13077 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
13078 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
13079 21594; closes ticket 21622.
13080 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
13081 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
13082 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
13083 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
13085 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13086 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
13087 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
13088 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
13089 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
13090 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
13091 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
13092 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
13093 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
13094 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
13096 o Minor features (logging):
13097 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
13098 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
13099 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
13100 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
13103 o Minor features (performance):
13104 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
13105 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
13107 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
13108 speed some controller functions.
13110 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
13111 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
13112 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
13113 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
13115 o Minor features (relay, performance):
13116 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
13117 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
13118 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
13119 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
13120 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
13123 o Minor features (safety):
13124 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
13125 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
13126 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
13129 o Minor features (testing):
13130 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
13132 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
13133 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
13134 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
13135 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
13136 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
13137 on. Closes ticket 21439.
13138 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
13139 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
13140 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
13141 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
13142 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
13143 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
13144 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
13145 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
13146 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
13147 21507. Partially implements 21470.
13149 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
13150 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13151 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13152 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13154 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13155 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
13156 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
13157 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
13160 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
13161 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
13162 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13163 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13164 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13165 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13166 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13167 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13170 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13171 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13172 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13174 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
13175 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
13176 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
13177 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
13178 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
13179 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13181 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13182 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13183 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13185 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
13186 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
13187 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
13188 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
13189 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
13190 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
13191 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13192 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
13193 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
13194 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
13195 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
13196 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
13197 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
13198 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
13200 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13201 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13202 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13203 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13204 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13205 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
13206 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13207 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
13208 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
13209 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
13210 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
13211 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13213 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13214 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13215 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13217 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
13218 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13219 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13220 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13221 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13222 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13224 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
13225 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
13226 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
13227 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
13228 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13229 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13230 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13231 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13232 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13233 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13234 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13235 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13237 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13238 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13239 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13240 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13241 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13242 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13243 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13244 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13246 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13247 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13248 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13249 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
13250 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
13251 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
13253 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
13254 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
13255 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
13258 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
13259 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
13260 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
13261 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
13262 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
13264 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13265 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
13266 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13267 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
13268 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
13269 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13270 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
13271 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13272 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
13273 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
13274 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13276 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
13277 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13278 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13279 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13281 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13282 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
13283 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
13284 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
13285 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
13286 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
13287 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
13288 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
13289 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
13290 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
13291 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13292 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
13293 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
13294 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13296 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
13297 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13298 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13299 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13300 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13301 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13302 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13304 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13305 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13306 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13307 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13308 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13309 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13310 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13312 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13313 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
13314 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
13315 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13316 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
13317 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
13318 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13319 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
13320 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
13321 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
13322 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13323 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
13324 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
13326 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
13327 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
13328 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
13329 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13331 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13332 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13333 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13335 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13336 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13337 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13338 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13340 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13341 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
13342 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
13343 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13345 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13346 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
13347 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13348 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13349 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13350 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13351 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
13352 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
13353 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
13355 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
13356 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
13357 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
13358 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
13359 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
13360 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
13361 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
13364 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
13365 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
13366 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
13367 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
13368 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
13369 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
13371 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13372 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13373 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13374 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
13375 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
13376 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13377 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
13378 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13379 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
13380 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
13381 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
13382 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
13383 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13384 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13385 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
13386 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
13389 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
13390 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13391 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13392 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13393 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13395 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
13396 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13397 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13398 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13399 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13400 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13401 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13403 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
13404 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
13405 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13407 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13408 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
13409 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
13410 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
13411 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
13412 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
13413 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
13414 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
13415 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
13416 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
13417 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
13418 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
13420 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
13421 Resolves ticket 22213.
13422 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
13423 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
13424 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
13425 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
13426 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
13427 types. Closes ticket 21651.
13428 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
13429 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
13432 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
13434 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
13435 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
13437 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
13438 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
13439 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
13441 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
13443 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
13444 Closes ticket 21873.
13445 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
13446 Closes ticket 21151.
13447 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
13448 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
13450 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
13451 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13452 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
13453 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
13455 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
13456 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
13457 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
13458 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
13459 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
13460 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
13461 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
13462 default behavior is now unavailable.
13463 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
13464 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
13465 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
13466 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
13467 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
13468 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
13469 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
13471 o Removed features (tools):
13472 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
13473 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
13474 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
13475 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
13476 required. Closes ticket 21842.
13479 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
13480 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
13481 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
13482 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
13484 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13485 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13486 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13487 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13488 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13489 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13490 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13491 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13492 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13494 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13495 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13496 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13497 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13499 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13500 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13501 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13502 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13503 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13505 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13506 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13509 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13510 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13511 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13512 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13514 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13515 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13516 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13517 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13518 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13519 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13520 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13521 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13524 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13525 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13526 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13529 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13530 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13531 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13532 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13533 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13534 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13536 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13537 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13538 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13539 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13541 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13542 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13543 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13545 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
13546 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13547 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13550 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
13551 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
13552 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
13553 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
13554 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
13557 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
13560 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13561 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13562 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13563 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13564 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13565 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13567 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13568 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13569 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13570 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13572 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13573 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13574 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13575 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13577 o Minor features (geoip):
13578 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13581 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13582 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13583 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13584 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13585 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13587 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13588 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13589 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13590 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13591 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13593 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13594 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13595 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13596 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13597 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13598 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13599 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13600 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13601 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13604 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
13605 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
13606 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13607 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13608 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
13610 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
13611 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13612 bugfixes described below.
13614 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13615 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13616 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13617 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13618 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13619 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13620 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13621 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13624 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13625 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13626 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13627 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13628 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13629 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13630 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13633 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13634 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13635 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13636 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13637 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13638 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13639 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13640 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13641 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13642 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13643 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13644 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13645 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13648 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13649 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
13650 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
13653 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13654 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13655 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13656 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13657 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13659 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13660 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13661 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13663 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13664 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13665 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13667 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13668 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13669 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13670 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13671 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13672 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13673 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13675 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
13677 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13678 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13679 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13682 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
13683 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13684 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13685 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13686 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13687 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13689 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
13690 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
13691 bugfixes described below.
13693 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
13694 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13695 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13696 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13697 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13700 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13701 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13702 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13703 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13704 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13705 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13706 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13709 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13710 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13711 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13712 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13713 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13715 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13716 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
13717 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13718 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13719 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13720 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13721 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13723 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
13724 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
13725 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
13726 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
13727 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
13729 o Minor features (geoip):
13730 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13733 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
13734 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
13735 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
13736 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13738 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13739 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13740 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13742 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
13743 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13744 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13745 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13746 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13749 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
13750 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
13751 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13752 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13753 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13755 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
13756 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13757 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13758 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13759 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13760 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13762 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13763 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13764 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13765 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13768 o Minor features (geoip):
13769 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13772 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13773 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13774 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13775 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13776 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13778 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13779 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13780 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13782 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
13783 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13784 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13785 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13786 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13787 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13789 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13790 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13791 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13792 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13795 o Minor features (geoip):
13796 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13799 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13800 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13801 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13804 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
13805 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13806 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13807 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13808 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13809 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13811 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13812 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13813 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13814 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13817 o Minor features (geoip):
13818 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13821 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13822 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13823 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13825 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
13826 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13827 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13828 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13829 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13830 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13832 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13833 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13834 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13835 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13838 o Minor features (geoip):
13839 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13842 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13843 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13844 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13846 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
13847 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
13848 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
13849 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
13850 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
13851 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
13853 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13854 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13855 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13856 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13859 o Minor features (geoip):
13860 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13863 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13864 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13865 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13868 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
13869 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
13870 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
13871 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
13872 clients are not affected.
13874 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
13875 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
13876 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
13877 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
13878 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
13879 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13882 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13885 o Minor features (future-proofing):
13886 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
13887 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
13888 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
13889 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
13890 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
13891 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
13893 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13894 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
13895 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
13896 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
13897 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
13901 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
13902 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
13904 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
13905 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
13906 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
13907 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
13908 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
13909 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
13912 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
13913 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
13915 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
13916 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
13917 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
13918 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
13919 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
13921 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
13922 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13924 o Major features (directory authority, security):
13925 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
13926 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
13927 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
13929 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
13930 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
13931 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
13932 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
13933 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
13936 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
13937 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
13938 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
13939 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
13940 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
13941 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
13942 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
13943 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
13946 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
13947 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
13948 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
13949 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
13950 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
13951 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
13952 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
13953 15056; part of proposal 220.
13954 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
13955 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
13956 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
13957 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
13958 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
13959 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
13960 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
13961 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
13962 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
13965 o Major features (security):
13966 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13967 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13968 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13969 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13970 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13971 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13973 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
13974 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
13975 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
13976 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
13977 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
13978 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
13979 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
13980 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
13981 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
13982 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
13983 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13985 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
13986 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13987 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13988 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13990 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
13991 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
13992 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
13993 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
13996 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
13997 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13998 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14000 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
14001 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14002 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14003 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14004 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14005 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14006 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14008 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
14009 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14010 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14011 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14012 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14013 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14014 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14015 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
14016 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
14017 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
14018 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
14019 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
14020 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
14021 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
14022 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
14024 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
14025 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
14026 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
14027 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
14028 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14030 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
14031 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14032 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
14033 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
14034 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
14035 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
14036 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14038 o Minor feature (client):
14039 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
14040 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
14042 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
14043 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
14044 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
14045 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
14047 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
14048 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
14049 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
14051 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
14052 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
14053 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
14054 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
14055 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
14057 o Minor features (controller):
14058 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
14059 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
14060 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
14061 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
14064 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
14065 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
14066 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
14067 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
14068 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
14069 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
14070 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
14071 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
14072 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
14073 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
14075 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
14076 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
14077 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
14080 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14081 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14082 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14084 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14085 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14086 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14088 o Minor features (directory authority):
14089 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
14090 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
14091 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
14092 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
14093 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
14095 o Minor features (directory cache):
14096 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
14097 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
14100 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
14101 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
14102 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
14103 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
14105 o Minor features (entry guards):
14106 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
14107 break regression tests.
14108 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
14109 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
14111 o Minor features (fallback directories):
14112 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
14113 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
14114 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
14115 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
14116 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
14117 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
14118 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
14119 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
14120 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
14121 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
14122 Closes ticket 20539.
14123 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
14124 Closes ticket 20822.
14125 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
14127 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
14128 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
14129 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
14130 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
14131 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
14133 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
14134 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
14135 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
14136 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
14137 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
14140 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
14141 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
14142 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
14143 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
14145 o Minor features (geoip):
14146 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14149 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
14150 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14153 o Minor features (infrastructure):
14154 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
14155 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
14157 o Minor features (linting):
14158 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
14159 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
14161 o Minor features (logging):
14162 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
14163 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
14165 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
14166 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14167 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14169 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14170 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14172 o Minor features (relay):
14173 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
14174 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
14175 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
14176 Written by Michael Sonntag.
14178 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
14179 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
14180 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
14183 o Minor features (testing):
14184 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
14185 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
14186 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
14188 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
14189 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
14190 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
14191 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
14192 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
14193 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
14194 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14195 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14196 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14198 o Minor bugfix (logging):
14199 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
14200 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
14201 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
14202 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
14205 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
14206 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
14207 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
14208 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
14210 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14211 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
14212 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
14215 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
14216 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
14217 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
14219 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14220 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
14221 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
14222 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14223 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
14224 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
14225 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
14227 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14228 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14229 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14231 o Minor bugfixes (config):
14232 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
14233 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
14234 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
14235 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14237 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14238 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
14239 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14240 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
14241 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
14242 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
14244 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
14245 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
14246 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
14247 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
14248 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
14249 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
14250 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
14253 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
14254 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
14255 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
14256 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
14257 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
14259 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
14260 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
14261 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
14262 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14264 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
14265 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
14266 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
14267 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
14268 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14270 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
14271 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
14272 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
14273 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
14274 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14276 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
14277 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
14278 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
14279 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14280 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
14281 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
14282 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
14285 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
14286 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
14287 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
14288 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
14289 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14290 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
14291 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
14292 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
14293 on all recent tor versions.
14295 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14296 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
14297 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
14299 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
14300 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
14301 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14303 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14304 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
14305 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
14306 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
14307 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14308 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
14309 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14310 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
14311 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14313 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14314 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
14315 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
14316 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
14317 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14318 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
14319 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
14320 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14321 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
14322 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
14323 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
14326 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14327 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
14328 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
14329 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14330 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
14331 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
14332 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
14333 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14334 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
14335 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
14336 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
14339 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
14340 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
14341 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14342 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
14343 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
14344 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
14345 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
14346 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
14348 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
14349 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
14350 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
14353 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14354 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
14355 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14357 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14358 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
14359 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
14360 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
14363 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
14364 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
14365 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
14366 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
14368 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
14369 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14371 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14372 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
14373 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
14375 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
14376 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
14377 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
14378 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
14380 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14381 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
14382 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
14383 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
14384 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14385 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
14386 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
14387 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14389 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
14390 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
14391 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
14392 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14393 Patch by "junglefowl".
14395 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14396 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
14397 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
14398 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
14399 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
14401 o Minor bugfixes (util):
14402 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
14403 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
14404 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
14405 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
14407 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
14408 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
14409 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
14412 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
14413 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
14414 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
14415 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
14417 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14418 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
14419 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
14420 Closes ticket 19858.
14421 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
14422 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
14423 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
14424 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
14425 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
14426 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
14427 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
14428 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
14429 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
14430 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
14431 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
14432 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
14433 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
14434 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
14435 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
14436 redundant with the similar structures used in the
14437 channel abstraction.
14438 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
14439 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
14440 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
14441 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
14442 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
14443 replaced with code automatically generated by the
14446 o Documentation (formatting):
14447 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
14448 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
14450 o Documentation (man page):
14451 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
14452 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
14455 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
14456 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
14458 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
14459 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
14460 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
14462 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
14463 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
14464 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
14465 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14466 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
14467 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
14468 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
14469 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
14470 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
14471 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
14473 o Removed features:
14474 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
14475 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
14476 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
14478 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
14479 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
14480 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
14483 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
14484 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
14485 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
14487 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
14488 from "overcaffeinated".
14489 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
14490 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
14493 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
14494 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
14495 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
14496 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14497 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
14500 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14501 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
14502 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14504 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14505 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14506 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14507 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14508 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14509 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14510 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14512 o Minor features (geoip):
14513 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14517 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
14518 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14519 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
14520 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14523 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14524 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14525 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14527 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14528 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14530 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14531 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14532 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14534 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14535 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14536 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14539 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14540 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14541 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14542 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14543 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14544 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14545 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14546 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14547 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14549 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14550 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14551 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14552 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14553 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14554 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14555 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14556 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14557 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14558 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14559 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14560 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14561 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14563 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14564 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14565 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14566 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14567 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14569 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14570 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14571 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14573 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14574 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14575 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14576 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14577 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14578 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14579 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14582 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14583 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14584 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14585 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14586 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14587 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14588 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14590 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14591 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14592 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14593 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14596 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14597 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14598 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14599 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14601 o Minor features (geoip):
14602 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14606 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
14607 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14608 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
14609 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14612 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
14613 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14614 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14616 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14617 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14619 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14620 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14621 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14623 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14624 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14625 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14628 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14629 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14630 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14631 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14632 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14633 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14634 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14635 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14636 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14638 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14639 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14640 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14641 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14642 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14643 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14644 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14645 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14646 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14648 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14649 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14650 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14651 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14652 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14654 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14655 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14656 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14657 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14658 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14661 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14662 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14663 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14664 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14665 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14667 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14668 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14669 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14671 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14672 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14673 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14674 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14675 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14676 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14679 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14680 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14681 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14682 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14683 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14684 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14685 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14688 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14689 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14690 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14691 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14692 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14693 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14694 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14696 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14697 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14698 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14699 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14702 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14703 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14704 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14705 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14707 o Minor features (geoip):
14708 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14711 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14712 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14713 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14716 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
14717 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14718 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
14719 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14722 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
14723 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
14724 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14726 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14727 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14729 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14730 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14731 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14733 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14734 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14735 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14738 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14739 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14740 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14741 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14742 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14743 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14744 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14745 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14746 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14748 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14749 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14750 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14751 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14752 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14753 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14754 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14755 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14756 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14758 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14759 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
14760 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
14761 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
14762 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14764 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14765 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14766 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14767 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14768 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14771 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14772 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14773 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14774 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14775 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14777 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14778 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14779 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14781 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14782 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14783 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14784 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14785 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14786 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14789 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14790 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14791 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14792 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14793 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14794 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14795 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14798 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14799 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14800 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14801 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14802 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14803 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14804 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14806 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14807 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14808 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14809 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14812 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14813 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14814 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14815 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14817 o Minor features (geoip):
14818 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14821 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14822 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14823 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14825 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
14826 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
14827 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
14828 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
14829 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
14830 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
14832 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14833 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14834 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14838 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
14839 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
14840 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
14841 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
14844 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
14845 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
14846 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
14848 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
14849 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
14851 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
14852 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
14853 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
14855 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14856 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
14857 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
14860 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
14861 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14862 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14863 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
14864 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
14865 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
14866 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
14867 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
14868 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
14870 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
14871 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
14872 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
14873 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
14874 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
14875 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
14876 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
14877 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
14878 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
14880 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
14881 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
14882 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
14883 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
14884 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
14887 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14888 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
14889 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
14890 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
14891 Reported by Guido Vranken.
14893 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14894 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
14895 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
14897 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14898 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
14899 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
14900 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
14901 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
14902 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
14905 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
14906 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
14907 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
14908 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
14909 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
14910 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
14911 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
14914 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
14915 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14916 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14917 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14918 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14919 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14920 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14922 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
14923 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
14924 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
14925 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
14928 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
14929 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
14930 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
14931 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
14933 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14934 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
14935 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
14936 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
14938 o Minor features (geoip):
14939 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14942 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
14943 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
14944 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
14946 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
14947 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
14948 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
14952 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
14953 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
14954 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
14955 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
14957 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
14958 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
14959 least January of 2020.
14961 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14962 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14963 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14964 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14967 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14968 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14969 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14970 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14971 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14972 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14973 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14975 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14976 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14977 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14978 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14979 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14980 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14981 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14983 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
14984 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14985 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14987 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14988 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14989 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14991 o Minor features (geoip):
14992 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14995 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
14996 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14997 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14999 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15000 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15002 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15003 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15004 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15006 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15007 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15008 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15009 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15010 Patch by "junglefowl".
15013 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
15014 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15015 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15016 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15017 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15018 version should upgrade.
15020 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
15021 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
15023 o Major bugfixes (security):
15024 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15025 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
15026 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
15027 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
15028 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
15029 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15031 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
15032 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15033 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15034 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15035 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15036 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15037 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15038 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15039 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15040 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15041 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15043 o Minor features (geoip):
15044 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15047 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15048 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15049 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15050 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15052 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15053 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15056 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
15057 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
15058 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15059 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15060 become available for their systems.
15062 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
15065 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
15066 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
15068 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15069 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15070 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15071 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15072 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15073 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15074 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15075 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15076 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15078 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15079 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15080 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15081 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15082 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15084 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
15085 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15089 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
15090 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
15092 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
15093 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
15094 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
15095 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
15096 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
15097 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
15098 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
15099 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
15101 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
15103 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
15104 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15105 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15106 become available for their systems.
15108 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
15109 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
15111 o New system requirements:
15112 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
15113 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
15114 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
15115 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
15116 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
15117 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
15118 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
15119 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
15120 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
15121 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
15122 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
15124 o Deprecated features:
15125 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
15126 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
15127 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
15128 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
15129 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
15130 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
15131 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
15132 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
15133 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
15134 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
15135 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15136 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15137 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
15138 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
15139 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
15140 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
15141 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
15142 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
15143 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
15144 and TransListenAddress.
15146 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15147 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15148 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15149 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15150 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15151 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15152 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15153 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15154 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15156 o Major features (build, hardening):
15157 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
15158 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
15159 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
15160 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
15161 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
15162 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
15163 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
15164 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
15165 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
15167 o Major features (circuit building, security):
15168 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
15169 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
15170 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
15172 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
15173 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
15175 o Major features (compilation):
15176 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
15177 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
15178 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
15179 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
15181 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
15182 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
15183 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
15185 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
15186 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
15187 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
15188 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
15189 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
15190 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
15191 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
15192 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
15194 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
15195 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
15196 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
15197 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
15198 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
15199 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
15200 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
15202 o Major features (resource management):
15203 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
15204 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
15205 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
15206 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
15207 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
15208 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
15210 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
15211 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
15212 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
15213 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
15214 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
15215 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
15216 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
15217 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
15218 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
15219 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
15220 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
15222 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
15223 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
15224 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
15225 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
15226 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
15227 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
15228 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
15229 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
15230 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
15231 part of proposal 264.
15233 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
15234 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
15235 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
15236 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
15238 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
15239 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
15240 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
15241 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
15242 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
15243 download, stop waiting for certificates.
15244 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
15245 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
15246 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
15248 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
15249 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
15250 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
15252 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
15253 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
15254 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
15255 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
15256 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
15257 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
15258 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15260 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15261 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
15262 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
15263 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
15264 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
15265 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
15266 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
15267 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
15268 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
15269 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15271 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
15272 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
15273 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
15274 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
15275 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
15276 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15278 o Minor features (port flags):
15279 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
15280 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
15281 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
15282 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
15283 18693; patch by "teor".
15285 o Minor features (build, hardening):
15286 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
15287 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
15288 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
15289 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
15290 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
15291 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
15292 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
15293 Closes ticket 18895.
15295 o Minor features (client, directory):
15296 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
15297 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
15298 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
15301 o Minor features (code safety):
15302 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
15303 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
15304 patch from "U+039b".
15306 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
15307 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
15310 o Minor features (config):
15311 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
15312 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
15314 o Minor features (controller):
15315 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
15316 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
15317 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
15318 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
15319 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
15320 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
15321 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
15322 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
15324 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
15325 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
15326 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
15329 o Minor features (directory authority):
15330 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
15331 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
15332 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
15333 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
15334 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
15335 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
15336 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
15337 Implements ticket 18624.
15338 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
15339 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
15340 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
15343 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15344 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15345 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15346 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15347 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15349 o Minor features (hidden service):
15350 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
15351 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
15352 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
15355 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
15356 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
15357 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
15358 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
15359 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
15360 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
15361 Closes ticket 18365.
15362 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
15363 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
15364 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
15365 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
15367 o Minor features (logging):
15368 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
15369 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
15370 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
15371 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
15372 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15373 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
15374 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
15375 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
15376 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
15377 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
15379 o Minor features (performance):
15380 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
15381 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
15382 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
15383 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
15384 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
15385 Closes ticket 18815.
15387 o Minor features (relay, usability):
15388 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
15389 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
15390 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
15391 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
15394 o Minor features (security, TLS):
15395 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
15396 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
15397 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
15398 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
15400 o Minor features (testing):
15401 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
15402 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
15403 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
15404 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
15405 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
15406 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
15407 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
15408 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
15409 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
15410 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
15412 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
15413 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
15414 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
15415 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
15416 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
15417 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
15418 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
15420 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
15421 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
15422 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
15423 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
15424 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
15425 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
15426 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
15427 assertion as a test failure.
15428 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
15430 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
15431 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
15432 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
15433 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
15434 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
15435 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
15436 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
15437 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
15438 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
15440 o Minor features (Tor2web):
15441 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
15442 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
15443 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
15445 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
15446 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
15447 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
15448 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
15449 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
15451 o Minor features (user interface):
15452 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
15453 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
15454 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
15455 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
15458 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
15459 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
15460 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
15461 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
15464 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
15465 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
15466 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
15467 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
15468 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
15469 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
15471 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15472 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
15473 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
15474 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
15476 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
15477 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
15478 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
15479 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
15480 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
15482 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
15483 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
15484 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
15485 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
15486 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
15488 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
15489 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
15490 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
15491 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
15492 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15494 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
15495 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
15496 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15498 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
15499 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
15500 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15502 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
15503 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
15504 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
15507 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
15508 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
15509 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
15511 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15512 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
15513 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
15515 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
15516 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
15517 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15518 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
15519 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
15520 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
15521 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
15522 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
15524 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15525 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
15526 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
15527 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
15529 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15530 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
15531 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
15532 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15533 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
15534 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
15535 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
15536 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15537 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
15538 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
15540 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
15541 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
15542 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
15543 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
15545 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
15546 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
15547 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
15548 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
15551 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
15552 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
15553 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
15554 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
15556 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
15557 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
15560 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15561 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
15562 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
15563 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
15565 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
15566 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
15568 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
15569 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
15570 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15571 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
15572 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
15574 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
15575 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
15576 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15578 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
15579 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
15580 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
15582 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15583 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
15584 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
15585 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
15586 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
15587 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15589 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15590 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
15591 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
15593 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
15594 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
15595 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
15596 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
15597 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
15598 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
15599 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
15601 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
15602 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
15603 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15604 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
15605 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15606 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
15607 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15608 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
15609 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
15610 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15611 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
15612 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
15613 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15614 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
15615 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
15618 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
15619 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
15620 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
15621 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
15622 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
15623 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
15625 o Minor bugfixes (options):
15626 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
15627 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
15629 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
15630 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
15631 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
15634 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15635 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
15636 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15637 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
15638 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
15639 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15641 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15642 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
15643 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
15644 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
15645 patch from "cypherpunks".
15646 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
15647 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
15648 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
15649 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15650 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
15651 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
15652 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
15653 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
15654 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15655 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
15656 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
15658 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
15659 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
15661 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
15662 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
15663 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15664 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
15665 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
15668 o Minor bugfixes (time):
15669 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
15670 bugfix on all released tor versions.
15671 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
15672 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
15673 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
15674 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
15676 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
15677 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
15678 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
15679 19678. Patch by teor.
15681 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
15682 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
15683 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
15684 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
15685 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
15687 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
15688 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15690 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15691 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
15693 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
15694 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15695 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
15696 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
15699 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
15700 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
15701 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
15702 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
15703 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
15704 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
15705 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
15706 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
15707 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
15708 tickets 19287 and 19290.
15709 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
15710 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
15711 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
15712 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
15713 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
15714 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
15715 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
15716 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
15718 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
15719 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
15720 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
15721 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
15724 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
15725 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
15727 o Removed features:
15728 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
15729 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
15730 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
15731 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
15732 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
15733 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
15734 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
15737 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
15738 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
15739 command-line options to enable them.
15740 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
15741 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
15744 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
15745 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
15746 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
15747 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
15750 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15751 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
15752 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
15753 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
15754 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
15755 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
15758 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15759 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
15760 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
15763 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
15764 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
15765 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
15766 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
15768 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15769 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
15770 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
15771 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15774 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15775 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
15776 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
15777 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
15780 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
15781 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
15782 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
15785 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15786 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
15787 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15789 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
15790 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
15791 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
15793 o Minor features (geoip):
15794 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15798 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
15799 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
15800 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
15801 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
15802 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
15805 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15806 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15807 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15808 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15809 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15810 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15811 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15812 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15813 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15815 o Minor features (geoip):
15816 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15820 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
15821 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
15822 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
15823 who select public relays as their bridges.
15825 o Major bugfixes (crash):
15826 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
15827 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
15828 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
15829 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
15830 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15832 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
15833 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
15834 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
15835 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
15836 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
15839 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
15840 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
15841 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
15843 o Minor features (geoip):
15844 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15848 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
15849 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
15850 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
15851 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
15852 encouraged to upgrade.
15854 o Directory authority changes:
15855 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15856 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15858 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
15859 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
15860 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
15861 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
15862 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
15863 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15865 o Minor features (geoip):
15866 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15869 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15870 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
15871 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
15874 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15875 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
15876 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
15877 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
15880 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
15882 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
15884 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
15885 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
15886 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
15887 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
15888 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
15889 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15891 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
15893 o New system requirements:
15894 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
15895 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
15896 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
15898 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
15899 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
15900 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
15901 longer runs with, these versions.
15902 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
15903 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
15904 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
15905 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
15906 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
15908 o Directory authority changes:
15909 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15910 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15912 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15914 o Major features (directory system):
15915 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
15916 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
15917 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
15918 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
15919 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
15920 gsathya, and karsten.
15921 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
15922 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
15923 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
15924 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
15925 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
15927 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
15928 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
15929 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
15930 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
15931 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
15932 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
15933 mikeperry and teor.
15935 o Major features (security, Linux):
15936 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
15937 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
15938 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
15939 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
15940 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
15942 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
15943 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
15944 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
15945 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
15946 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
15947 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
15948 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
15950 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
15951 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
15954 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
15955 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15956 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15958 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
15959 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
15960 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
15961 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
15962 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
15964 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
15965 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
15966 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
15967 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15968 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
15969 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
15970 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
15971 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
15972 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
15973 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15975 o Major bugfixes (key management):
15976 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15977 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15978 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15979 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15980 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15981 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15984 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
15985 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15986 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15987 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15988 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15990 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
15991 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
15992 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
15993 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
15994 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
15995 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
15996 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
15997 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
15998 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16000 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
16001 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16002 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16003 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16004 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16006 o Major bugfixes (testing):
16007 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
16008 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16010 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
16011 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
16012 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
16013 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16015 o Minor features (accounting):
16016 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
16017 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
16018 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
16019 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
16021 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
16022 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16023 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16024 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16025 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
16026 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
16027 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
16030 o Minor features (build):
16031 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
16032 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
16033 Steven Chamberlain.
16034 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
16035 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
16036 patch from "cypherpunks".
16037 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16038 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
16039 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
16040 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
16041 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
16042 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
16043 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16044 Patch from intrigeri.
16046 o Minor features (clients):
16047 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
16048 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
16049 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
16051 o Minor features (controller):
16052 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
16053 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
16054 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
16056 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
16057 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
16058 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
16059 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
16060 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
16062 o Minor features (crypto):
16063 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
16064 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
16066 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
16067 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
16068 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16069 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
16070 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
16072 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
16073 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
16074 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
16075 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
16077 o Minor features (directory downloads):
16078 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
16079 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
16080 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
16081 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
16082 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
16083 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
16084 17864; patch by teor.
16086 o Minor features (geoip):
16087 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16090 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
16091 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
16092 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
16093 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
16094 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
16096 o Minor features (IPv6):
16097 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
16098 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
16099 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
16100 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
16101 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
16102 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
16103 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
16104 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
16105 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
16106 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
16107 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
16108 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
16110 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
16111 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
16112 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
16113 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
16114 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
16115 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
16116 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
16117 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
16118 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
16119 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16121 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16122 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
16123 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
16124 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
16125 while fixing 18548.
16127 o Minor features (logging):
16128 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
16129 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
16130 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
16131 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
16134 o Minor features (portability):
16135 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
16136 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
16138 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
16139 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
16140 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
16141 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
16142 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
16144 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
16145 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
16146 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
16147 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
16148 Resolves ticket 17951.
16150 o Minor features (replay cache):
16151 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
16152 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
16154 o Minor features (robustness):
16155 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
16156 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
16157 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
16159 o Minor features (security, clock):
16160 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
16161 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
16162 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
16163 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
16165 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
16166 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
16167 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
16168 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
16169 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
16170 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
16172 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
16173 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16174 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16175 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16177 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
16178 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
16179 Implements ticket 17026.
16180 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
16181 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
16182 Implements feature 17986.
16183 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
16184 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
16185 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
16187 o Minor features (security, RNG):
16188 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
16189 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
16190 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
16191 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
16192 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
16193 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
16194 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
16195 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
16196 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
16197 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
16200 o Minor features (security, win32):
16201 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
16202 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
16205 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16206 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
16207 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
16208 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
16209 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
16210 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
16211 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
16214 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
16215 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
16216 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
16217 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
16218 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16219 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
16220 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
16221 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
16222 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
16223 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
16224 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16225 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
16226 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
16227 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16229 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
16230 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
16231 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
16232 from "unixninja92".
16234 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
16235 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
16236 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
16239 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16240 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
16241 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16243 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16244 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
16245 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
16246 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16247 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
16248 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
16250 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
16251 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
16253 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
16254 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
16255 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16256 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
16257 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
16259 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
16260 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16261 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
16262 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
16263 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16264 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
16266 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
16267 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
16268 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
16269 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
16270 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16271 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
16272 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
16273 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16274 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
16275 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16276 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
16278 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
16279 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
16282 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
16283 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
16284 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
16285 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
16286 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16288 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16289 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
16290 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
16291 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
16292 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
16293 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16294 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
16295 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
16297 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
16299 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
16300 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
16301 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
16303 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
16304 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
16305 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16307 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16308 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
16309 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16311 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
16312 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
16313 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
16314 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16316 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
16317 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
16318 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
16319 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
16320 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16322 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
16323 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
16324 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
16326 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
16327 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
16328 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
16329 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
16330 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
16331 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16332 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
16333 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
16334 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
16336 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
16337 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
16338 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
16339 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
16342 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
16343 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
16344 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
16345 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
16346 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
16348 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16349 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
16350 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
16351 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
16352 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
16353 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
16354 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
16355 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
16357 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
16358 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
16359 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
16360 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
16361 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
16362 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
16363 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
16364 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
16365 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
16368 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
16369 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
16370 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
16371 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16373 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
16374 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
16375 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
16377 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
16378 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
16379 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16381 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16382 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
16383 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
16384 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
16385 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16386 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
16387 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
16388 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16389 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
16390 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
16391 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16392 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
16393 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
16394 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16395 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
16396 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16397 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
16398 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
16399 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
16401 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16402 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
16403 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
16404 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
16405 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
16407 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
16408 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16409 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
16410 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
16411 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
16412 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
16413 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
16414 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
16415 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
16416 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16417 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
16418 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
16421 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
16422 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
16423 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
16424 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
16426 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
16427 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16428 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
16431 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
16432 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
16433 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
16434 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16436 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
16437 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
16438 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
16439 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
16440 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
16441 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
16444 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
16445 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
16446 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
16447 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
16449 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
16450 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
16451 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
16452 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
16453 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
16454 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
16455 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
16456 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
16457 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16459 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
16460 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
16461 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
16462 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
16463 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
16465 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
16466 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
16467 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
16468 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
16470 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
16471 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
16472 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
16473 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
16474 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
16475 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
16476 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
16477 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
16479 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
16480 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
16482 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
16483 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
16484 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
16487 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16488 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
16489 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
16490 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
16492 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
16493 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
16494 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16495 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
16496 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
16497 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
16498 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
16499 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
16500 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
16501 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
16502 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16503 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
16504 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
16505 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
16506 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
16507 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16509 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
16510 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
16511 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
16512 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
16513 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
16514 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
16515 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
16517 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
16518 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
16519 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
16520 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
16522 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16523 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
16524 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
16526 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
16527 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
16528 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
16529 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
16531 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
16532 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
16533 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
16534 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
16535 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
16536 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
16537 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
16538 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
16539 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
16540 17744. Patch from zerosion.
16541 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
16542 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
16543 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
16544 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
16545 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
16546 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
16547 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
16548 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
16549 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
16550 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
16551 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
16552 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
16556 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
16557 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
16558 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
16559 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
16560 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
16561 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
16562 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
16563 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
16564 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
16565 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
16566 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
16567 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
16569 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
16570 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
16572 o Removed features:
16573 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
16574 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
16575 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
16576 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
16577 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
16578 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
16579 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
16580 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
16583 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
16584 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
16585 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
16586 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
16587 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
16588 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
16589 portion of ticket 16831.
16590 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
16592 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
16593 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
16594 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
16595 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
16596 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
16598 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
16599 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
16600 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
16601 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
16604 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
16605 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
16606 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
16608 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
16609 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
16610 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
16611 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
16612 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
16613 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
16616 o Minor features (geoip):
16617 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16620 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16621 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
16622 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
16623 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
16624 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
16625 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
16627 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16628 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
16629 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
16630 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
16631 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
16632 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
16633 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
16634 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16635 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
16636 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16639 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
16640 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
16641 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
16642 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
16643 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
16644 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
16645 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
16646 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
16647 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
16648 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
16649 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
16650 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
16651 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
16652 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
16653 that would make him proud.
16655 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
16657 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
16658 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
16659 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
16660 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
16661 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
16662 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
16663 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
16665 o New system requirements:
16666 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
16667 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
16669 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
16670 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
16671 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
16672 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
16673 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
16674 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
16675 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
16676 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
16677 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
16678 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
16679 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
16680 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
16681 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
16683 o Major features (controller):
16684 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
16685 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
16687 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
16688 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
16689 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
16690 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
16691 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
16692 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
16693 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
16695 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
16696 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
16697 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
16698 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
16699 key). Closes ticket 13642.
16700 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
16701 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
16702 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
16703 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
16704 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
16705 Implements part of ticket 12498.
16706 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
16707 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16708 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
16709 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
16710 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
16711 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
16712 part of ticket 12498.
16713 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
16714 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
16716 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
16717 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
16718 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
16719 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
16720 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
16721 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
16722 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
16723 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
16724 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
16727 o Major features (ECC performance):
16728 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
16729 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
16731 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
16732 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
16733 available. Implements ticket 16535.
16734 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
16735 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
16736 Implements ticket 16467.
16737 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
16738 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
16739 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
16740 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
16742 o Major features (Hidden services):
16743 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
16744 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
16745 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
16746 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
16747 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
16748 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
16749 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
16750 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
16751 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
16752 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
16753 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
16754 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
16756 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
16757 introduction points, which used to change the number of
16758 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
16759 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
16761 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
16762 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
16763 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
16764 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
16765 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
16766 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
16768 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
16769 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
16770 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
16771 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
16772 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
16773 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
16775 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16776 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
16777 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
16778 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
16779 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
16780 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
16781 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
16782 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
16785 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16786 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
16787 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
16788 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
16790 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
16791 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
16792 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
16793 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
16794 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
16795 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
16798 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
16799 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
16800 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
16802 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
16803 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
16804 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
16805 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
16806 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
16807 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
16809 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
16810 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
16811 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
16812 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
16813 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
16816 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
16817 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
16818 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
16819 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
16820 by "cypherpunks_backup".
16821 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
16822 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
16823 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
16826 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
16827 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
16828 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
16829 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
16831 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
16832 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
16833 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
16834 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16835 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
16836 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
16837 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
16840 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
16841 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
16842 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
16843 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
16844 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
16845 own. Implements feature 15482.
16846 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
16847 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
16849 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
16850 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
16851 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
16852 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
16853 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
16855 o Minor features (command-line interface):
16856 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
16857 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16858 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
16859 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
16861 o Minor features (compilation):
16862 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
16863 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
16864 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
16865 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
16866 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
16868 o Minor features (control protocol):
16869 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
16870 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
16872 o Minor features (controller):
16873 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
16874 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
16875 present. Implements ticket 14840.
16876 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
16877 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
16878 Closes ticket 14845.
16879 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
16880 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
16881 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
16883 o Minor features (directory authorities):
16884 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
16885 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
16886 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
16887 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
16888 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
16890 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
16891 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
16892 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
16893 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
16894 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
16895 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
16896 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
16898 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
16899 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
16900 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
16901 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
16903 o Minor features (geoip):
16904 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
16907 o Minor features (hidden services):
16908 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
16909 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
16910 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
16911 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
16913 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
16914 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
16915 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
16917 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
16918 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
16919 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
16920 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
16921 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
16922 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
16923 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
16924 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
16926 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
16927 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
16928 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
16929 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
16930 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
16931 Closes ticket 15745.
16933 o Minor features (logging):
16934 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
16935 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
16938 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
16939 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
16940 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
16941 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
16943 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
16944 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
16945 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
16946 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
16947 Resolves ticket 15435.
16949 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
16950 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
16951 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
16952 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16953 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
16954 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
16955 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
16956 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16957 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
16958 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
16959 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
16960 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
16961 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
16962 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
16963 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
16964 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
16965 Related to ticket 16069.
16967 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
16968 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
16969 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
16971 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
16972 stderr, not stdout.
16973 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
16974 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
16975 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
16978 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16979 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
16980 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
16981 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
16982 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
16984 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
16985 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
16986 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
16987 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
16989 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
16990 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
16991 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
16992 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
16993 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
16994 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
16995 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
16996 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
16998 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16999 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
17000 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
17001 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17003 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17004 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
17005 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
17007 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
17008 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
17009 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
17011 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
17012 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
17013 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
17014 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17016 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
17017 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17018 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17019 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17020 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17021 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17023 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17024 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17025 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17027 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
17028 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17030 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17031 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
17032 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17033 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
17034 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17035 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
17036 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
17037 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
17039 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
17040 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17041 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17042 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17044 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
17045 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17046 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17048 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
17049 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
17050 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
17053 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17054 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
17055 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
17056 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
17057 recent enough Clang.
17059 o Minor bugfixes (network):
17060 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
17061 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
17062 unsuitable for public communications.
17064 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
17065 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
17066 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
17067 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
17069 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17070 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
17071 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17072 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
17073 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
17075 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
17076 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
17078 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17079 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
17080 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
17081 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
17082 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
17084 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
17085 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17086 from "cypherpunks".
17087 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
17088 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
17091 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
17092 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
17093 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
17094 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
17095 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
17097 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17098 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
17099 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
17100 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
17101 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
17102 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
17104 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
17105 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
17106 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
17107 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17109 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
17110 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
17111 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
17112 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
17113 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
17114 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
17115 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
17116 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
17118 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
17119 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17120 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17122 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17123 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
17124 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
17125 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
17126 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
17127 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
17128 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
17129 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
17130 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
17131 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
17132 function. Closes ticket 16763.
17133 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
17134 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
17136 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
17137 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
17138 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
17139 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
17140 haven't supported that in ages.
17141 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
17142 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
17143 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
17144 suite of other microdesc functions.
17145 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
17146 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
17147 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
17148 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
17149 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
17150 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
17151 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
17152 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
17153 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
17154 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
17155 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
17156 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
17157 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
17158 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
17159 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
17160 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
17162 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
17163 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
17167 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
17168 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
17169 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
17171 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
17172 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17173 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
17174 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
17175 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
17176 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
17177 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
17178 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
17179 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
17180 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
17182 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
17184 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
17185 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
17186 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
17187 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
17188 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
17189 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
17190 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
17191 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
17192 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
17193 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
17194 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
17195 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
17196 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
17198 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
17199 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17202 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
17203 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
17204 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
17205 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
17206 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
17207 Closes ticket 14922.
17208 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
17209 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
17210 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
17211 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
17212 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
17213 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
17214 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
17215 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
17216 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
17217 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
17218 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
17219 Closes ticket 13338.
17221 o Removed features:
17222 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
17223 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
17224 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
17225 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
17226 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
17227 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
17228 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
17229 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
17230 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
17231 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
17232 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
17233 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
17234 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
17235 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
17236 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
17239 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
17240 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
17241 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
17242 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
17243 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
17244 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
17245 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
17246 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
17247 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
17248 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
17249 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
17251 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
17252 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
17253 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
17254 Closes ticket 15817.
17255 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
17256 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
17257 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
17258 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
17259 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
17260 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
17261 network before we begin.
17262 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
17263 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
17264 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
17265 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
17266 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
17267 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
17269 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
17270 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
17272 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
17273 default as a part of "make check".
17274 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
17275 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
17276 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
17277 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
17278 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
17279 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
17280 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
17281 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
17282 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
17283 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
17284 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
17285 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
17286 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
17287 files. Closes ticket 15180.
17288 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
17289 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
17290 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
17291 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
17292 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
17293 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
17294 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
17295 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
17296 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
17297 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
17298 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
17299 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
17300 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
17301 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
17302 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
17303 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
17304 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
17306 - Set the severity correctly when testing
17307 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
17308 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
17309 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
17310 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
17312 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
17313 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
17314 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
17315 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
17316 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
17317 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
17319 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
17320 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17321 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17322 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17323 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17324 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17325 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17326 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17329 o Major bugfixes (stability):
17330 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17331 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17332 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17333 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17334 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17335 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17336 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17339 o Minor features (geoip):
17340 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17341 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17343 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
17344 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17345 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17346 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17347 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17348 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17350 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17351 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17352 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17353 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17356 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
17357 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
17358 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
17359 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
17360 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
17362 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
17363 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17364 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
17365 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
17366 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17369 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
17370 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17371 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17372 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17373 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
17374 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
17375 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17377 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17378 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17379 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17380 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17382 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17383 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
17384 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
17385 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
17386 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17387 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17390 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
17391 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17392 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17395 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
17396 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
17397 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
17398 authorities should upgrade.
17400 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17401 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17402 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17403 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17406 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17407 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17408 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17411 o Minor features (geoip):
17412 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17413 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17417 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
17418 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
17419 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
17420 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
17421 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17423 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
17424 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17426 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17427 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17428 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17429 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17430 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17431 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17432 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17434 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17435 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17436 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17437 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17438 Resolves ticket 15515.
17439 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
17440 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
17441 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
17445 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
17446 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
17447 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
17448 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
17449 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17451 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
17452 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17454 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17455 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17456 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17457 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17458 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17459 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17460 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17462 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17463 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17464 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17465 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17466 Resolves ticket 15515.
17469 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
17470 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
17471 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
17472 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
17473 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
17475 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
17476 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
17478 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
17479 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
17480 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
17481 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
17482 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
17483 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
17484 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
17486 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
17487 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
17488 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
17489 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
17490 Resolves ticket 15515.
17493 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
17494 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
17496 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
17497 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
17498 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
17499 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
17500 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
17501 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
17502 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
17503 bugs should be addressed.
17505 o New compiler and system requirements:
17506 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
17507 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
17508 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
17509 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
17511 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
17512 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
17513 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
17514 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
17515 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
17516 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
17517 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
17518 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
17519 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
17521 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
17522 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
17523 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
17524 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
17525 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
17526 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
17527 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
17529 o Directory authority changes:
17530 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
17531 closes ticket 14487.
17532 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
17533 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
17534 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
17536 o Major features (bridges):
17537 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
17538 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
17539 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
17542 o Major features (changed defaults):
17543 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
17544 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
17545 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
17546 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
17547 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
17548 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
17550 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
17551 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
17552 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
17553 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
17556 o Major features (directory system):
17557 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
17558 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
17559 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
17560 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
17561 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
17562 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
17563 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
17564 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
17565 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
17566 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
17567 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
17568 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
17569 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
17570 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
17571 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
17572 227. Closes ticket 10395.
17574 o Major features (guards):
17575 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
17576 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
17577 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
17578 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
17579 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
17581 o Major features (hidden services):
17582 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
17583 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
17584 Closes ticket 13667.
17585 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
17586 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
17587 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
17588 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
17589 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
17590 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
17591 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
17592 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
17593 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
17594 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
17595 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
17597 o Major features (performance):
17598 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
17599 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
17600 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
17601 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
17602 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
17603 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
17604 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
17605 Implements ticket 9682.
17607 o Major features (relay):
17608 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
17609 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
17610 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
17611 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
17612 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
17613 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
17614 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
17615 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
17617 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
17618 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
17619 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
17620 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
17621 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
17622 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
17623 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
17626 o Major features (sample torrc):
17627 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
17628 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
17629 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
17630 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
17631 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
17632 generally useful "sample torrc".
17634 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
17635 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
17636 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
17637 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
17638 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
17639 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
17641 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
17642 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
17643 Implements ticket 11485.
17645 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
17646 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
17647 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
17648 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
17649 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
17650 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
17653 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
17654 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
17655 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
17658 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
17659 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
17660 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17662 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
17663 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
17664 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
17665 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
17666 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
17668 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
17669 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
17670 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
17671 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
17673 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
17674 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
17675 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
17678 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17679 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
17680 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
17681 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
17682 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
17683 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
17685 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17686 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
17687 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
17688 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
17690 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
17691 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
17692 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
17693 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
17694 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
17695 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
17696 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
17698 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17699 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
17700 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
17701 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
17702 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
17703 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17705 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
17706 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
17707 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
17708 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
17709 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17710 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
17711 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
17712 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17714 o Minor features (build):
17715 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
17716 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
17717 Resolves ticket 13037.
17719 o Minor features (client):
17720 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
17721 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
17722 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
17723 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
17725 o Minor features (client):
17726 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
17727 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
17728 Resolves ticket 13315.
17730 o Minor features (controller):
17731 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
17732 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
17734 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
17735 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
17737 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
17738 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
17739 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
17740 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
17741 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
17742 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
17743 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
17744 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
17745 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
17747 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
17748 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
17749 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
17750 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
17751 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
17752 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
17753 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
17754 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
17755 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
17756 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
17758 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17759 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
17760 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
17761 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
17762 argument more than once.
17763 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
17764 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
17765 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
17766 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
17767 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
17768 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
17770 o Minor features (geoip):
17771 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17772 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17775 o Minor features (guard nodes):
17776 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
17777 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
17778 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
17780 o Minor features (heartbeat):
17781 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
17782 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
17783 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
17784 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
17786 o Minor features (hidden service):
17787 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
17788 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
17789 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
17790 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
17791 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
17792 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
17793 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
17794 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
17795 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
17796 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
17797 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
17798 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
17799 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
17800 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
17802 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
17803 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
17804 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
17806 o Minor features (interface):
17807 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
17808 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
17809 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
17811 o Minor features (logging):
17812 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
17813 Resolves ticket 6852.
17814 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
17815 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
17816 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
17818 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
17819 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
17820 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
17821 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
17822 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
17823 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
17824 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
17825 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
17826 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
17827 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
17828 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
17829 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
17832 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
17833 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
17834 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
17835 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
17837 o Minor features (relay):
17838 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
17839 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
17840 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
17842 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
17843 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
17844 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
17845 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
17846 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
17847 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
17848 document. Implements feature 10427.
17850 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
17851 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
17852 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
17853 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
17855 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
17856 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
17857 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
17858 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
17859 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
17860 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
17862 o Minor features (stability):
17863 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
17864 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
17867 o Minor features (systemd):
17868 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
17869 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
17870 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
17871 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17872 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
17873 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
17875 o Minor features (testing networks):
17876 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
17877 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
17878 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
17879 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
17880 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
17882 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
17883 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
17884 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
17885 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
17886 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
17887 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
17889 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
17890 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
17891 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
17892 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
17893 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
17895 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
17896 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
17897 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
17898 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
17899 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
17901 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
17902 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
17903 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
17904 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
17905 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
17908 o Minor features (validation):
17909 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
17910 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
17911 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
17912 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
17913 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
17914 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
17915 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
17916 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
17917 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
17918 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
17919 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
17922 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
17923 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
17924 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
17925 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17927 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
17928 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
17929 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
17930 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
17932 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
17933 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
17934 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
17936 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
17937 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
17938 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
17940 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
17941 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17942 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
17943 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
17944 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17945 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
17946 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
17948 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
17949 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
17950 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
17951 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
17952 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
17953 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
17954 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
17955 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
17956 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
17958 o Minor bugfixes (client):
17959 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
17960 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
17961 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
17962 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
17963 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17964 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
17965 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
17966 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
17968 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
17969 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
17970 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
17971 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17972 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
17973 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
17974 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
17975 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
17977 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
17978 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
17979 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
17982 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
17983 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
17984 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
17985 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
17986 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
17988 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
17989 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
17990 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
17991 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
17992 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
17993 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
17994 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
17995 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17997 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
17998 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
17999 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
18000 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
18001 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18003 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
18004 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
18005 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
18006 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
18007 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
18009 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
18010 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
18011 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18013 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
18014 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
18015 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
18016 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
18017 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
18019 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
18020 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
18021 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
18023 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18024 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
18026 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
18027 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
18028 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
18029 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
18031 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
18032 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
18034 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
18035 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
18036 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
18037 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
18038 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
18039 Addresses ticket 14188.
18040 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18041 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18042 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18043 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
18044 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
18045 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
18046 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
18047 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18048 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
18049 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
18050 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
18053 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18054 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
18055 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
18056 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
18057 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
18058 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18060 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18061 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
18062 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
18063 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
18064 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
18066 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18067 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18068 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18069 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18070 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18071 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
18072 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
18073 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18074 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
18075 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18076 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18077 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18078 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18079 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
18080 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
18081 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18083 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18084 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
18085 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
18086 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18087 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
18088 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
18089 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
18090 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
18093 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
18094 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
18095 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
18096 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
18097 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
18098 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18099 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
18100 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
18101 state, and key files.
18102 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
18103 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
18106 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18107 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
18108 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
18109 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
18110 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18111 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
18112 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
18113 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18114 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
18115 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
18116 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
18117 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
18118 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18119 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
18120 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
18121 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
18122 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
18123 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
18126 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18127 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
18128 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
18129 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
18130 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
18131 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
18132 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
18133 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
18134 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
18135 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18137 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18138 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
18139 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18140 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
18141 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
18142 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
18144 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
18145 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18147 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
18148 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
18149 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
18150 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
18151 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18153 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
18154 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
18155 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
18156 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
18157 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
18158 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18160 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18161 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
18162 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
18164 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
18165 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
18166 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18168 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18169 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18170 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18171 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18172 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18174 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
18175 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
18176 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
18179 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18180 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
18181 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18182 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
18183 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
18186 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
18187 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
18188 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
18189 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
18192 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
18193 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
18194 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
18197 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18198 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18199 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18201 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
18202 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
18203 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
18204 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
18205 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
18208 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
18209 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
18210 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18211 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
18212 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
18213 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18215 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
18216 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
18217 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
18218 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
18219 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
18220 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
18222 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
18223 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
18224 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
18225 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
18226 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18227 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
18228 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
18229 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
18230 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
18231 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
18232 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
18233 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
18234 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
18235 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
18236 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
18237 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
18238 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
18239 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
18240 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
18241 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18242 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
18243 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
18244 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
18245 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
18246 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
18247 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
18248 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
18249 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18250 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
18251 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
18252 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
18253 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
18255 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
18256 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
18257 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
18258 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
18259 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18261 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18262 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
18263 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
18264 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
18265 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
18266 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18267 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
18268 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
18269 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18271 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
18272 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
18273 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
18275 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
18276 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
18277 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
18280 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
18281 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
18282 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
18283 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
18286 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
18287 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
18288 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18290 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18291 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
18292 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
18294 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
18295 Resolves ticket 12205.
18296 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
18297 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
18298 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
18299 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
18301 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
18302 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
18303 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
18305 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
18306 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
18308 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
18309 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
18310 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
18311 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
18312 or_options_t structure.
18313 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
18314 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
18315 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
18316 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
18317 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
18318 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
18319 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
18320 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
18322 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
18323 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
18325 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
18327 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
18328 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
18329 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
18330 with a function instead.
18331 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
18332 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
18333 Closes ticket 13172.
18334 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
18335 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
18336 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
18337 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
18338 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
18339 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
18340 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
18341 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
18342 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
18343 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
18344 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
18345 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
18349 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
18350 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
18351 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
18352 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
18354 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
18355 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
18356 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
18357 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18358 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
18359 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18360 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
18361 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
18362 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
18363 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
18364 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
18365 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
18366 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
18367 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
18368 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
18369 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
18370 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
18371 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
18373 o Distribution (systemd):
18374 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
18375 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
18376 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
18377 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
18378 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18380 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
18381 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
18383 o Downgraded warnings:
18384 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
18385 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
18388 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
18389 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
18390 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
18393 o Removed features (directory authorities):
18394 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
18395 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
18396 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
18397 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
18398 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
18399 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
18400 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
18401 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
18402 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
18404 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
18405 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
18406 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
18407 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
18410 o Removed features:
18411 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
18412 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
18413 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
18414 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
18415 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
18417 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
18418 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
18419 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
18420 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
18421 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
18422 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
18423 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
18424 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
18425 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
18427 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
18428 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
18430 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
18431 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
18432 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
18433 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
18434 anymore, and ignore it.
18436 o Removed platform support:
18437 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
18438 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
18439 Closes ticket 11446.
18441 o Testing (test-network.sh):
18442 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
18443 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
18445 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
18447 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
18448 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
18449 Partially implements ticket 13161.
18452 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
18453 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
18454 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
18455 (existing behavior).
18456 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
18457 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
18458 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
18459 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
18460 Closes ticket 14107.
18461 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
18462 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18463 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
18464 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
18466 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
18467 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
18468 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
18469 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
18470 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
18471 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
18473 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
18475 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
18476 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
18477 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
18478 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
18479 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
18480 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
18481 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
18482 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
18483 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
18484 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
18485 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
18486 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
18488 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
18489 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
18490 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
18492 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
18493 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
18495 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
18496 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
18497 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
18499 o Directory authority changes:
18500 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18501 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18502 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18503 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18504 closes ticket 14487.
18506 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
18507 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
18508 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
18511 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18512 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18513 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
18514 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18515 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
18516 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18517 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18518 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18520 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
18521 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18522 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18523 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18525 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18526 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18527 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18528 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18530 o Minor features (controller):
18531 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18532 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18533 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18535 o Minor features (geoip):
18536 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18537 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18540 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18541 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18542 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18543 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18544 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18545 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18547 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18548 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18549 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18550 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18552 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18553 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18554 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18555 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18556 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18557 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18558 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18559 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18561 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18562 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18563 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18565 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18566 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18567 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18568 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18569 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18573 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
18574 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
18575 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
18578 o Directory authority changes:
18579 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18580 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18581 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18582 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18583 closes ticket 14487.
18585 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
18586 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18587 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18588 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18590 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
18591 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18592 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
18593 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18594 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
18595 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18596 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18597 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18599 o Minor features (geoip):
18600 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18601 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18604 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
18605 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
18607 It adds several new security features, including improved
18608 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
18609 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
18610 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
18611 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
18612 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
18613 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
18614 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
18615 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
18616 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
18617 and features mentioned below.
18619 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
18620 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
18622 o Major features (security):
18623 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
18624 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
18625 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
18626 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
18627 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
18628 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
18629 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
18630 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
18631 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
18632 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
18634 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
18635 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
18636 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
18637 streams attached to each circuit.
18639 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
18640 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
18641 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
18642 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
18643 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
18644 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
18645 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
18646 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
18647 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
18648 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
18649 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
18650 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
18651 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
18653 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
18654 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
18655 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
18656 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
18658 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
18659 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
18660 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
18661 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
18662 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
18663 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
18665 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
18666 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
18667 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
18668 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
18669 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
18670 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
18671 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
18672 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
18675 o Major features (controller):
18676 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
18677 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
18678 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
18679 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
18680 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
18681 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
18683 o Major features (relay performance):
18684 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
18685 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
18686 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
18687 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
18688 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
18689 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
18690 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
18691 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
18692 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
18693 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
18695 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
18696 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
18697 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
18698 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
18699 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
18700 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
18701 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
18702 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
18703 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
18704 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
18706 o Major features (testing networks):
18707 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
18708 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
18709 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
18710 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
18711 Implements ticket 8530.
18713 o Major features (other):
18714 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
18715 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
18716 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
18717 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
18718 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
18719 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
18721 o Deprecated versions:
18722 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
18723 attention for some while.
18725 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
18726 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
18727 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
18729 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
18730 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
18731 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
18732 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
18733 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
18734 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
18735 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
18736 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
18737 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
18738 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
18739 router's identity is not forgeable.
18741 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
18742 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
18743 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
18744 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
18746 o Major bugfixes (client):
18747 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
18748 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
18749 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
18750 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
18751 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
18752 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
18753 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
18754 to build circuits".
18756 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
18757 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
18758 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
18759 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
18762 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
18763 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
18764 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
18765 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
18766 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
18767 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
18768 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18770 o Major bugfixes (relay):
18771 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
18772 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18773 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18774 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
18775 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
18776 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
18777 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18778 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
18779 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
18780 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
18781 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
18782 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
18783 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
18784 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
18785 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
18786 bugfix on every version of Tor.
18788 o Minor features (security):
18789 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
18790 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
18791 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
18792 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
18794 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
18795 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
18796 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
18797 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
18798 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
18799 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
18800 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
18802 o Minor features (security, memory management):
18803 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
18804 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
18805 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
18806 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
18807 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
18808 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
18810 o Minor features (bridge client):
18811 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
18812 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
18813 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
18815 o Minor features (bridge):
18816 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
18817 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
18819 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
18820 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
18821 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
18822 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
18823 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
18824 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
18825 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
18826 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
18827 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
18828 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
18829 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
18830 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
18831 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
18832 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
18833 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
18835 o Minor features (build):
18836 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
18837 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
18838 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
18839 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
18840 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
18841 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
18842 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
18843 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
18844 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
18845 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
18846 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
18847 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
18848 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
18849 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
18850 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
18853 o Minor features (client):
18854 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
18855 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
18856 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
18857 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
18859 o Minor features (config options and command line):
18860 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
18861 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
18862 Implements ticket 10060.
18863 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
18864 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
18865 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
18867 o Minor features (config options):
18868 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
18869 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
18870 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
18871 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
18872 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
18873 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
18874 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
18875 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
18876 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
18877 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
18878 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
18879 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
18880 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
18881 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
18882 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
18883 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
18884 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
18887 o Minor features (controller):
18888 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
18889 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
18891 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
18892 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
18893 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
18894 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
18895 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
18896 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
18897 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
18898 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
18900 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
18901 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
18902 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
18904 o Minor features (diagnostic):
18905 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
18906 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
18907 help diagnose bug 7164.
18908 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
18909 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
18910 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
18911 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
18912 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
18914 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
18915 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
18916 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
18917 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
18918 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
18919 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
18920 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
18921 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
18922 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
18923 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
18924 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
18925 still referenced by a live node_t object.
18926 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
18927 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
18928 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
18930 o Minor features (geoip):
18931 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
18934 o Minor features (interface):
18935 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
18936 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
18937 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
18938 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
18940 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
18941 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
18942 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
18944 o Minor features (log messages):
18945 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
18946 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
18947 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
18948 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
18949 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
18950 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
18951 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
18952 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
18954 o Minor features (log verbosity):
18955 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
18956 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
18957 Resolves ticket 5286.
18958 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
18959 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
18960 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
18961 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
18962 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
18963 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
18965 o Minor features (performance):
18966 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
18967 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
18968 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
18969 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
18970 Closes ticket 8109.
18972 o Minor features (relay):
18973 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
18974 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
18975 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
18977 o Minor features (testing):
18978 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
18979 the unit test scripts.
18980 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
18981 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
18982 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
18983 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
18985 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
18986 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
18987 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
18988 10267; patch from "yurivict".
18989 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
18990 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
18991 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
18992 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
18993 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
18994 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
18996 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
18997 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
18998 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
18999 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19001 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19002 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
19003 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
19004 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19005 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
19006 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
19007 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
19008 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
19009 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
19010 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
19012 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
19013 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
19014 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
19016 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
19017 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
19018 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
19019 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
19020 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19022 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19023 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
19024 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
19025 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
19026 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19027 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
19028 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
19029 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
19030 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19031 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
19032 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
19033 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
19035 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
19036 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
19037 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
19038 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
19039 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
19040 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19041 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
19042 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
19043 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19044 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
19045 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
19046 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19048 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
19049 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
19050 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
19051 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
19053 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
19054 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
19055 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
19056 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
19059 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
19060 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
19061 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
19062 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19063 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
19064 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
19067 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
19068 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
19069 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
19070 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
19071 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
19073 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
19074 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
19075 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
19078 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19079 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
19080 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
19081 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
19082 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
19083 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
19084 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
19085 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
19086 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
19087 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
19089 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
19090 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
19091 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
19092 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
19093 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
19095 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
19096 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19098 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19099 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
19100 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
19101 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
19102 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
19103 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
19104 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
19105 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
19106 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
19107 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19108 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
19109 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
19110 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
19112 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
19113 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
19114 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
19115 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
19116 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
19117 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
19118 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
19119 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
19120 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
19121 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
19122 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
19123 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
19124 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
19126 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
19127 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
19128 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
19130 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
19131 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
19132 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
19133 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
19134 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
19135 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
19137 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
19138 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
19139 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
19140 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19141 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
19142 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
19143 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
19144 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
19145 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
19146 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19148 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19149 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
19150 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19152 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
19153 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
19154 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
19155 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
19156 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19158 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19159 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
19160 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
19161 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19162 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
19163 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
19164 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
19165 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19166 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
19167 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
19168 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
19169 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
19170 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
19171 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
19173 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19174 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
19175 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
19176 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
19177 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
19178 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
19179 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
19180 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
19181 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
19183 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
19184 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
19185 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19186 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
19187 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
19188 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
19189 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
19191 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
19192 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
19194 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
19195 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
19196 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
19197 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
19199 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
19200 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
19201 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
19202 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19203 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
19204 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
19205 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
19206 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
19207 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
19208 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
19209 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
19210 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
19211 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19212 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
19213 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
19214 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
19215 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
19217 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
19218 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
19219 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
19220 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
19221 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
19222 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
19223 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
19224 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
19227 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
19228 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
19229 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
19230 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
19231 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
19232 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
19233 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19234 Reported by "mr-4".
19235 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
19236 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
19237 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
19238 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19240 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
19241 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
19242 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
19243 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
19244 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
19245 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
19246 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
19247 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
19248 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19249 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
19250 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
19251 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
19253 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
19254 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
19255 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
19257 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
19258 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
19259 early. Fixes bug 10081.
19261 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19262 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
19263 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
19264 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
19267 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
19268 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
19269 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
19270 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
19273 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
19274 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
19275 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
19276 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
19278 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
19279 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
19280 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19282 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
19283 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
19284 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
19285 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
19286 versions. Found by "skruffy".
19287 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
19288 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
19289 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
19292 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
19293 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
19294 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19295 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
19296 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
19297 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
19298 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
19299 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
19300 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19301 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
19302 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
19304 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19305 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
19306 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
19307 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
19308 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
19310 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
19311 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
19312 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
19313 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
19316 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
19317 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
19318 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19319 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
19320 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
19321 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
19322 should never have affected anyone in practice.
19324 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19325 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
19326 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
19327 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
19328 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
19329 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
19330 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
19331 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
19332 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
19333 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19334 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
19335 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
19336 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
19337 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
19338 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
19339 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
19340 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19341 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
19342 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
19343 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
19344 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
19345 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
19346 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
19347 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
19349 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
19350 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
19351 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
19352 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
19353 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19354 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
19355 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
19356 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
19357 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
19359 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
19360 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
19363 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
19364 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
19366 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
19368 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
19369 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
19370 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
19371 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
19372 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
19373 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
19375 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
19376 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
19378 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
19379 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
19380 caches don't get confused.
19381 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
19382 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19383 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
19384 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
19385 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
19386 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
19387 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
19388 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
19389 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
19390 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
19391 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
19392 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
19393 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
19394 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
19395 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19396 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
19397 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
19398 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19401 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
19402 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
19403 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
19404 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
19405 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
19407 o Removed code and features:
19408 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
19409 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
19410 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
19411 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
19412 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
19413 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
19415 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
19416 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
19417 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
19418 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
19419 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
19420 part of a fix for bug 10841.
19421 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
19422 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
19423 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
19424 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
19425 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
19426 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
19428 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
19429 Resolves ticket 11070.
19430 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
19431 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
19432 the rest of bug 10841.
19433 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
19434 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
19435 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
19436 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
19438 o Test infrastructure:
19439 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
19440 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
19441 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
19442 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
19443 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
19444 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
19445 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
19446 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
19447 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
19448 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
19450 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
19451 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
19452 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
19453 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
19454 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
19455 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
19456 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
19457 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
19458 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
19459 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
19460 invoking the other functions it calls.
19463 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
19464 Patch from Dana Koch.
19465 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
19466 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
19467 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
19468 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
19470 o Distribution (systemd):
19471 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
19472 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
19473 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
19474 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
19475 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
19476 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
19477 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
19478 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
19479 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
19480 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
19481 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
19482 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
19483 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
19487 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
19488 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
19489 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
19490 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
19491 (which does affect Tor).
19493 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
19494 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
19495 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
19496 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
19498 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
19499 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19500 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
19501 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19504 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
19505 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
19506 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
19507 the directory authorities.
19510 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
19511 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
19512 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
19513 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
19514 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
19515 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
19516 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
19517 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
19518 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
19519 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
19520 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
19521 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19523 o Directory authority changes:
19524 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
19526 o Minor features (geoip):
19527 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19531 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
19532 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
19533 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
19534 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
19537 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
19538 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
19539 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
19540 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
19541 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
19542 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
19543 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
19544 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
19545 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
19546 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
19549 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
19550 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
19551 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
19552 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
19553 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
19554 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
19555 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
19556 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
19560 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
19561 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
19562 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
19563 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
19564 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
19565 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
19566 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
19567 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
19568 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19569 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
19570 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
19571 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
19572 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
19575 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19579 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
19580 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
19581 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
19582 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
19583 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
19584 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
19585 of RAM, and several others.
19587 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19588 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
19589 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
19590 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
19591 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
19593 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
19594 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
19595 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
19596 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
19599 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19600 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
19601 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
19602 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
19603 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
19604 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
19605 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19606 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
19607 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
19608 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
19609 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
19610 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
19611 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
19612 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
19613 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
19614 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
19615 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
19616 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
19617 Resolves ticket 11438.
19619 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
19620 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
19621 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
19622 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
19623 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
19624 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19626 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19627 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
19628 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
19630 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19631 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
19632 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19634 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19635 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
19636 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
19637 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
19639 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19640 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
19641 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
19643 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19644 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
19645 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19648 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
19649 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
19650 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
19651 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
19654 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19655 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
19656 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
19657 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
19659 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19660 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
19661 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
19662 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
19664 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
19665 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
19666 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
19670 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
19671 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
19672 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
19673 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
19675 o Major features (client security):
19676 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
19677 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
19678 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
19679 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
19680 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
19681 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
19684 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
19685 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
19686 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
19687 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19689 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19690 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
19691 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
19692 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
19693 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
19696 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
19697 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
19699 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
19700 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
19701 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
19702 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
19703 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
19704 GeoLite2 Country database.
19707 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
19708 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
19709 bugfix on every released Tor.
19710 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
19711 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
19712 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
19713 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19714 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
19715 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
19716 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
19717 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
19718 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
19719 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19720 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
19721 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
19722 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
19723 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
19724 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
19726 o Documentation fixes:
19727 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
19728 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19731 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
19732 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
19733 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
19734 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
19735 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
19736 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
19737 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
19739 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
19740 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
19743 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
19744 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
19745 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
19746 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
19747 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
19748 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
19749 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
19750 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
19752 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
19753 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19754 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
19755 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
19756 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
19757 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
19760 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
19761 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19762 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
19763 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
19764 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
19767 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
19768 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
19769 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
19770 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
19771 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
19772 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
19773 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
19774 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
19776 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
19777 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
19778 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
19779 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
19780 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
19781 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
19782 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
19783 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
19784 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
19785 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
19786 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
19787 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
19788 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
19789 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
19790 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
19791 security, and privacy fixes.
19793 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
19794 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
19795 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
19796 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
19797 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
19798 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
19799 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
19800 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
19801 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
19802 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
19803 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
19805 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
19806 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
19807 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
19809 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
19811 o Major features (better link encryption):
19812 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
19813 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
19814 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
19815 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
19816 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
19817 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
19820 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
19821 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
19822 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
19823 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
19825 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
19827 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
19828 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
19829 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
19830 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
19831 them to solve bug 6033.)
19833 o Major features (relay performance):
19834 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
19835 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
19836 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
19837 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
19838 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
19839 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
19840 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
19841 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
19842 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
19843 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
19844 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
19845 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
19846 Implements ticket 9574.
19848 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
19849 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
19850 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
19851 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
19852 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
19853 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
19854 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
19855 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
19856 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
19857 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
19858 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
19859 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
19860 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
19861 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
19862 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
19863 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
19865 o Major features (use of guards):
19866 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
19867 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
19868 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
19869 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
19870 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
19871 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
19872 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
19873 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
19874 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
19875 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
19876 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
19877 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
19878 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
19879 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
19881 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
19882 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
19883 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
19884 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
19886 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
19887 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
19890 o Major features (geoip database):
19891 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
19892 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
19893 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
19894 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
19895 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
19896 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
19898 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
19900 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
19902 o Major features (IPv6):
19903 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
19904 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
19905 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
19906 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
19907 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
19908 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
19909 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
19910 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
19911 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
19912 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
19913 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
19914 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
19915 revised in proposal 208.
19916 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
19917 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
19918 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
19920 o Major features (directory authorities):
19921 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
19922 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
19924 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
19925 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
19926 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
19927 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
19928 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
19929 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
19930 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
19931 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
19932 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
19933 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
19934 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
19936 o Major features (build and portability):
19937 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
19938 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
19939 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
19940 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
19941 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
19942 fixes by Jim Meyering.
19943 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
19944 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
19945 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
19946 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
19947 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
19948 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
19950 o Security features:
19951 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
19952 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
19953 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
19954 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
19955 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
19956 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
19957 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
19958 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
19959 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
19962 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
19963 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
19964 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
19965 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
19966 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
19967 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
19968 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
19969 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
19970 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
19971 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
19972 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
19973 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
19974 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
19975 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
19976 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
19977 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
19978 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
19979 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
19981 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
19982 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
19983 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
19984 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
19986 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
19987 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
19988 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
19990 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
19991 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
19992 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19993 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
19994 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
19995 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
19996 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
19997 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
19998 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
20000 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
20001 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20003 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
20004 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
20005 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
20006 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
20007 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
20008 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
20009 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
20010 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
20011 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
20012 last time we raised it).
20013 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
20014 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
20015 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
20017 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20018 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
20019 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
20020 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
20021 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
20022 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
20023 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
20024 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20025 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
20026 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
20027 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
20028 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
20029 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20031 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
20032 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
20033 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
20034 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
20035 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
20036 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
20037 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
20038 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
20039 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20040 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
20041 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
20042 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
20043 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
20045 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
20046 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
20047 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
20048 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
20049 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
20050 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
20051 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
20052 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
20053 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20055 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
20056 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
20057 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
20058 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
20059 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
20060 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
20061 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
20062 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
20063 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
20064 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
20065 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
20066 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
20067 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
20068 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
20069 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
20070 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
20071 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
20074 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
20075 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
20076 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
20077 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20079 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
20080 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
20081 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
20082 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
20084 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
20085 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
20086 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
20087 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
20088 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
20089 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
20092 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
20093 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
20094 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
20095 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
20096 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
20097 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
20098 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20100 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
20101 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
20102 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
20103 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20105 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20106 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
20107 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
20108 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
20109 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20110 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
20111 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
20112 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20114 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
20115 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
20116 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20118 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
20119 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
20120 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20122 o Internal abstraction features:
20123 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
20124 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
20125 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
20126 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
20127 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
20128 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
20129 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
20130 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
20131 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
20132 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
20133 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
20134 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
20135 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
20136 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
20137 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
20138 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
20139 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
20141 o New build requirements:
20142 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
20143 strongly recommended.
20144 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
20145 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
20146 from a source distribution.)
20148 o Minor features (protocol):
20149 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
20150 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
20152 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
20153 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
20154 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
20155 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
20156 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
20157 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
20158 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
20159 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
20160 closes ticket 7199.
20161 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
20162 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
20164 o Minor features (security):
20165 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
20166 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
20167 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
20168 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
20169 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
20170 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
20171 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
20172 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
20173 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
20175 o Minor features (control protocol):
20176 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
20178 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
20179 Implements ticket 4971.
20180 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
20181 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
20182 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
20183 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
20184 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
20186 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
20187 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
20189 o Minor features (path selection):
20190 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
20191 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
20192 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
20193 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
20194 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
20195 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
20196 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
20197 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
20198 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
20199 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
20200 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
20201 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
20202 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
20203 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
20205 o Minor features (hidden services):
20206 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
20207 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
20208 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
20209 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
20210 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
20211 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
20212 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
20213 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
20214 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
20215 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
20216 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
20217 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
20218 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
20220 o Minor features (clients):
20221 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
20222 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
20223 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
20224 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
20225 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
20226 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
20227 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
20228 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
20229 the ORPort and the DirPort.
20231 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
20232 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
20233 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
20234 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
20235 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
20236 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
20237 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
20238 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
20239 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
20240 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
20241 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
20242 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
20243 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
20244 Implements part of proposal 222.
20246 o Minor features (bridges):
20247 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
20248 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
20249 bugs 1913 and 1992.
20250 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
20251 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
20252 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
20253 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
20254 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
20255 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
20256 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
20257 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
20258 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
20259 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
20260 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
20262 o Minor features (relays):
20263 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
20264 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
20266 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
20267 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
20268 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
20269 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
20270 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
20271 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
20272 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
20273 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
20274 connect to the wrong addresses.
20275 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
20276 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
20277 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
20278 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
20281 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
20282 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
20283 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
20284 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
20285 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
20286 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
20288 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20289 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
20290 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
20291 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
20293 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
20294 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
20295 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
20296 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
20297 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
20298 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
20300 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
20301 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
20302 Implements ticket 8151.
20303 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
20304 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
20305 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
20306 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
20308 o Minor features (path bias detection):
20309 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
20310 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
20311 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
20312 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
20313 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
20314 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
20315 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
20316 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
20317 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
20318 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
20319 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
20320 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
20321 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
20322 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
20323 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
20324 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
20325 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
20326 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
20327 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
20328 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
20329 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
20330 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
20331 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
20332 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
20333 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
20334 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
20335 detection capability loss.
20337 o Minor features (build):
20338 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
20339 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
20340 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
20342 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
20343 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
20344 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20346 o Build improvements (autotools):
20347 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
20348 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
20349 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
20351 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
20352 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
20353 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
20354 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
20356 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
20357 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
20358 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
20359 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
20360 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
20361 than to perform erroneously.
20362 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
20364 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
20365 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
20366 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
20368 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
20369 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
20370 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
20371 hard-to-track-down errors.
20372 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
20373 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
20374 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
20375 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
20376 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
20377 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
20378 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
20379 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20380 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
20381 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
20382 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
20384 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
20385 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
20386 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
20387 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
20388 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
20389 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
20390 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
20391 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
20392 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
20393 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
20395 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
20396 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
20397 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
20398 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
20399 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
20400 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
20401 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
20402 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
20403 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
20404 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
20405 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
20406 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
20407 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
20409 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
20410 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
20411 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
20412 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
20413 or at least make it more diagnosable.
20414 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
20415 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
20416 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
20417 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
20419 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
20420 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
20421 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
20422 part of ticket 6736.
20423 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
20424 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
20425 Resolves ticket 6758.
20426 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
20427 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
20428 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
20429 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20430 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
20431 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
20432 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
20434 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
20435 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
20436 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
20437 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20439 o Minor features (testing):
20440 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
20441 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
20443 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
20444 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
20445 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
20448 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
20449 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
20451 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
20452 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
20453 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
20454 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
20455 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
20456 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
20457 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
20458 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
20459 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
20460 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
20461 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
20462 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
20463 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
20464 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
20465 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
20466 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
20467 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
20469 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
20470 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
20471 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
20472 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
20473 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
20474 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
20475 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
20476 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
20477 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
20478 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
20479 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
20480 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
20481 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
20482 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
20483 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
20484 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
20485 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
20486 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20487 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
20488 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
20491 o Minor fixes (config options):
20492 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
20493 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
20494 or we just won't work.)
20495 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
20496 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
20497 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20498 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
20499 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
20500 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20501 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
20502 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20503 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
20504 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
20505 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
20506 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20507 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
20508 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
20509 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
20510 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20511 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
20512 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
20513 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
20515 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
20516 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
20517 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
20519 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
20520 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
20521 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
20522 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
20524 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
20525 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
20526 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
20527 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
20528 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
20529 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20530 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
20531 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
20532 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
20533 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
20534 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20535 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
20536 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
20537 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
20538 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
20539 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
20542 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
20543 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
20544 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
20545 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
20546 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
20547 Should help resolve bug 8235.
20548 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
20549 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
20550 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
20551 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
20552 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
20553 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
20554 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
20555 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
20556 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
20557 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
20558 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
20560 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20561 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
20562 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
20563 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
20564 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
20565 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
20566 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
20567 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
20569 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
20570 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
20571 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
20572 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
20574 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
20575 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
20576 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
20577 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
20578 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
20580 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
20581 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
20582 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
20583 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20584 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
20585 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20587 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
20588 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
20589 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
20590 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
20591 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
20592 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
20593 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
20594 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
20595 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
20597 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20598 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
20599 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
20600 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
20601 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20602 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
20603 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
20604 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
20605 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
20606 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
20607 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
20608 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
20610 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
20611 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
20612 this is CID 718634.
20613 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
20614 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
20615 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
20616 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
20618 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
20619 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
20621 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
20622 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
20623 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
20624 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
20625 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
20626 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
20627 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
20628 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20629 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
20630 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
20631 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
20632 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20633 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
20634 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
20635 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20636 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
20637 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
20638 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
20640 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
20641 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
20642 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
20643 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
20644 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20645 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
20646 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
20647 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
20648 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
20649 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
20650 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
20651 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
20652 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
20655 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
20656 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
20657 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
20658 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
20659 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
20661 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
20662 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
20663 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
20664 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
20665 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
20666 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20667 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
20668 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
20669 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
20672 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20673 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
20674 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20675 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20677 o Documentation fixes:
20678 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
20679 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
20680 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
20681 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
20682 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
20683 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
20684 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
20686 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
20687 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
20688 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
20689 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
20690 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
20691 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
20692 message is logged at notice, not at info.
20693 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
20694 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
20695 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
20696 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
20697 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
20698 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
20700 o Removed features:
20701 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
20702 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
20703 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
20705 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
20706 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
20707 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
20708 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
20709 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
20710 compatibility code.
20713 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
20714 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
20716 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
20717 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
20719 o Code simplification:
20720 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
20721 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
20722 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
20723 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
20725 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
20726 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
20728 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
20729 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
20730 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
20731 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
20732 present the same extensions.)
20733 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
20735 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
20736 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
20737 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
20738 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
20740 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
20741 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
20742 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
20743 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
20746 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
20748 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
20749 and the different handshakes it supports.
20750 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
20751 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
20752 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
20753 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
20755 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
20756 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
20757 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
20758 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
20759 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
20760 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
20761 testable, and a little less fragile too.
20762 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
20763 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
20764 Implements ticket 5529.
20765 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
20766 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
20767 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
20770 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
20771 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
20772 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
20773 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
20774 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
20775 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20776 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
20777 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
20778 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
20779 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
20780 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
20781 any encoding is overkill.
20782 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
20783 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
20784 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
20785 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
20786 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
20787 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
20788 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
20789 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
20790 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
20793 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
20794 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
20795 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
20796 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
20797 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
20798 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
20799 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
20800 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
20802 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
20803 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
20804 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
20805 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
20806 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
20807 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
20808 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
20809 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
20810 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
20811 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
20812 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
20814 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
20815 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
20816 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
20817 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
20818 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
20819 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
20820 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
20821 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
20822 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
20823 describes microdescriptors.
20825 o Major features (build hardening):
20826 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
20828 o Major features (relay scaling):
20829 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
20830 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
20831 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
20832 much faster than other AES implementations.
20833 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
20834 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
20835 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
20836 Resolves ticket 4526.
20837 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
20838 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
20840 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
20841 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
20842 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
20843 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
20845 o Major features (blocking resistance):
20846 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
20848 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
20849 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
20850 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
20851 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
20852 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
20853 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
20854 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
20855 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
20856 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
20857 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
20858 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
20859 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
20860 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
20861 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
20862 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
20863 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
20864 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
20865 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
20866 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
20868 o Major features (pluggable transports):
20869 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
20870 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
20871 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
20872 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
20874 o Major features (DoS resistance):
20875 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
20876 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
20877 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
20878 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
20879 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
20880 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
20881 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
20882 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
20883 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
20884 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
20885 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
20887 o Major features (hidden services):
20888 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
20889 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
20890 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
20892 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
20893 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
20894 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
20895 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
20896 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
20897 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
20899 o Major features (IPv6):
20900 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
20901 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
20902 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
20903 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
20904 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
20906 o Major features (directory authorities):
20907 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
20908 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
20909 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
20910 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
20911 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
20912 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
20913 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
20914 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
20915 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
20916 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
20918 o Major features (performance):
20919 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
20920 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
20921 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
20922 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
20923 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
20924 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
20925 side of Proposal 174.
20926 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
20927 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
20928 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
20929 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
20930 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
20931 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
20932 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
20933 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
20934 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
20935 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
20936 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
20937 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
20939 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
20940 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
20941 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
20942 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
20943 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
20946 o Major features (relays):
20947 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
20948 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
20949 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
20950 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
20951 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
20952 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
20953 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
20955 o Major features (stream isolation):
20956 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
20957 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
20958 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
20959 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
20960 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
20961 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
20962 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
20963 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
20964 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
20965 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
20966 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
20967 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
20968 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
20969 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
20971 o Major features (bufferevents):
20972 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
20973 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
20974 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
20975 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
20976 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
20977 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
20978 zero-copy transports where available.
20979 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
20980 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
20981 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
20982 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
20983 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
20984 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
20986 o Major features (path selection):
20987 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
20988 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
20989 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
20990 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
20993 o Major features (port forwarding):
20994 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
20995 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
20996 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
20997 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
20998 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
20999 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
21001 o Major features (logging):
21002 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
21003 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
21004 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
21005 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
21006 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
21007 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
21008 Implements enhancement 1668.
21010 o Major features (other):
21011 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
21012 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
21013 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
21014 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
21015 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
21016 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
21017 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
21018 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
21019 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
21020 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
21021 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
21022 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
21023 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
21024 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
21025 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
21026 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
21027 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
21028 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
21029 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
21030 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
21032 o New directory authorities:
21033 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21034 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21036 o Security/privacy fixes:
21037 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
21038 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
21039 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21040 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
21041 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
21042 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
21043 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21044 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
21045 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
21046 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
21047 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
21048 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
21049 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
21050 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
21051 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
21052 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21053 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21054 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21055 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21056 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21057 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21058 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21059 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21060 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21061 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21062 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21063 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21064 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21065 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21066 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21067 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21069 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
21070 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
21071 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
21072 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
21073 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21074 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21075 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21076 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21077 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
21078 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
21079 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
21080 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
21081 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21082 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21085 o Major bugfixes (clients):
21086 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
21087 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
21088 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
21089 which introduced predicted ports.
21090 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
21091 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
21092 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
21093 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
21094 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
21095 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
21096 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21097 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
21098 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
21100 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
21101 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
21102 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
21103 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
21104 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
21105 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
21107 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
21108 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
21109 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
21110 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
21111 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21112 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
21113 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
21114 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
21115 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
21116 documents entirely.
21118 o Major bugfixes (relays):
21119 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
21120 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
21121 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
21122 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
21123 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
21124 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
21125 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
21126 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
21127 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
21128 immensely in tracking this bug down.
21129 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21130 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21131 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21132 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
21133 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
21134 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
21135 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21137 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21138 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
21139 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
21140 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
21141 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
21142 cells were introduced.
21143 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
21144 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
21145 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
21146 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
21148 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21149 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
21150 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
21151 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
21152 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
21153 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
21154 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
21155 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
21156 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
21157 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
21158 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
21159 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
21160 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
21161 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
21162 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
21163 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
21164 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
21165 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
21166 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
21167 Fixes part of bug 3825.
21169 o Changes to default torrc file:
21170 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
21171 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
21173 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
21174 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
21175 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
21177 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
21178 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
21179 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
21181 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21182 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
21183 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
21184 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
21185 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
21186 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
21187 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
21188 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
21189 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
21190 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
21191 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
21192 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
21193 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
21194 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
21195 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
21196 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
21199 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
21200 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
21201 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
21202 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
21203 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
21204 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
21205 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
21206 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
21207 sure. Closes bug 5139.
21208 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
21209 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
21210 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
21211 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
21212 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
21214 o Minor features (IPv6):
21215 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
21216 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
21217 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
21218 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
21219 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
21220 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
21222 o Minor features (hidden services):
21223 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
21224 Required by fix for bug 3460.
21225 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
21226 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
21227 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
21228 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
21229 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
21230 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
21231 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
21232 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
21233 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
21235 o Minor features (relays):
21236 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
21237 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
21238 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
21239 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
21240 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
21241 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
21242 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
21243 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
21244 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21245 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
21246 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
21249 o Minor features (new config options):
21250 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
21251 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
21252 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
21253 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
21254 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
21255 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
21256 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
21257 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
21258 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
21259 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
21260 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
21261 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
21263 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
21264 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
21265 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
21266 Implements issue 933.
21267 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
21268 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
21269 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
21270 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
21271 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
21272 implements ticket 3439.
21273 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
21274 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
21275 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
21276 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
21277 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
21278 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
21279 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
21280 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
21282 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
21283 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
21284 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
21285 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
21286 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
21287 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
21288 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
21289 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
21290 appending to the list.
21291 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
21292 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
21293 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
21294 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
21297 o Minor features (controller, new events):
21298 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
21299 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
21300 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
21301 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
21302 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
21303 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
21305 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
21306 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
21307 circuit-status' control-port command.
21308 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
21309 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
21310 user. Implements ticket 1692.
21311 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
21312 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
21313 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
21315 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
21316 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
21317 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
21318 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
21319 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
21320 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
21321 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
21322 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
21323 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
21325 o Minor features (controller, other):
21326 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
21327 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
21328 part of ticket 3457.
21329 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
21330 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
21331 file. Resolves bug 1101.
21332 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
21333 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
21335 o Minor features (log messages):
21336 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
21337 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
21338 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
21339 please let us know about it.
21340 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
21341 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
21342 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
21343 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
21344 Resolves ticket 2474.
21345 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
21346 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
21348 o Minor features (other):
21349 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
21350 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
21351 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
21352 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
21354 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
21355 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
21356 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
21357 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
21358 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
21359 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
21360 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
21362 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
21363 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
21364 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
21365 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
21366 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
21368 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
21369 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
21370 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
21371 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
21372 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
21373 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
21374 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
21375 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
21376 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21377 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
21378 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
21379 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
21380 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
21381 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
21382 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
21383 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
21386 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
21387 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
21388 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
21389 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
21390 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
21391 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
21392 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21393 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
21394 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
21396 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
21397 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
21398 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
21399 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
21400 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
21401 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
21402 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21403 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
21404 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
21405 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21407 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21408 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
21409 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21410 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
21411 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
21412 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
21413 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21414 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
21415 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
21417 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
21418 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
21419 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
21420 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
21421 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
21422 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
21423 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
21424 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
21425 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
21427 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
21428 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
21429 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
21430 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
21431 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
21432 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
21433 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
21435 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
21436 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
21437 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
21438 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
21440 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21441 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
21442 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
21443 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21444 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
21445 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
21446 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
21447 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
21448 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
21449 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
21450 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
21451 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
21454 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
21455 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
21456 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21457 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
21458 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
21459 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
21461 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
21462 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
21463 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21464 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
21465 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
21466 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
21467 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
21468 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
21469 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
21470 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
21471 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
21472 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
21473 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
21474 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
21475 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
21477 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
21478 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
21479 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
21480 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
21481 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
21482 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
21484 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
21485 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
21486 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
21487 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
21488 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
21489 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
21490 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
21491 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
21492 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
21493 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
21494 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
21495 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
21496 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
21497 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
21498 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21500 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
21501 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
21502 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
21503 be disabled using the new
21504 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
21505 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21506 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
21507 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
21508 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
21509 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
21510 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
21512 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
21513 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
21514 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
21515 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21516 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
21517 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
21518 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
21520 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
21521 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
21522 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
21523 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
21524 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21525 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
21526 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
21527 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
21529 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
21530 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
21531 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
21532 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
21533 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
21534 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
21535 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
21536 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21538 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21539 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
21540 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
21541 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
21542 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
21543 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
21544 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
21545 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
21547 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
21548 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
21549 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
21550 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
21552 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
21553 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
21554 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
21556 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
21557 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
21559 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
21560 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
21561 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
21562 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
21563 case for flushing marked connections.
21564 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
21565 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
21566 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
21567 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
21568 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
21569 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
21570 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
21571 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
21572 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
21573 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21575 o Minor bugfixes (other):
21576 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
21577 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
21578 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
21579 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
21580 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
21581 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
21582 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
21583 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
21584 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
21585 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
21587 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
21588 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
21589 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
21590 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
21591 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21593 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
21594 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
21595 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
21596 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
21597 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
21598 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
21599 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
21600 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
21601 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
21602 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
21603 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
21604 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
21605 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
21606 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
21607 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
21608 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
21610 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
21611 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
21612 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
21613 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21614 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
21615 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
21616 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21617 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
21618 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
21619 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
21620 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
21621 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
21622 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
21623 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
21624 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
21625 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
21626 Implements ticket 3264.
21627 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
21629 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
21630 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
21631 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
21632 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
21633 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
21634 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
21636 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
21637 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
21638 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
21639 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
21640 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
21641 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21642 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
21643 them from the other auths.
21644 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
21645 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
21646 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
21647 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21648 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
21649 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
21650 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
21651 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
21655 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
21656 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
21657 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
21659 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
21660 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
21661 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
21662 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
21663 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
21664 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
21665 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
21666 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
21668 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
21669 ./src/test/bench binary.
21670 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
21671 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
21672 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
21673 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
21676 o Build improvements:
21677 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
21678 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
21679 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
21680 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
21681 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
21682 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
21683 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
21684 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21685 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
21686 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
21687 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
21688 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
21689 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
21690 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
21691 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
21692 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
21693 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
21694 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
21695 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
21696 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
21697 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
21699 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
21701 o Build requirements:
21702 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
21703 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
21704 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
21705 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
21706 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
21707 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
21708 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
21709 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
21710 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
21711 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
21712 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
21713 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
21714 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
21716 o Build fixes (compile/link):
21717 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
21718 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
21720 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
21721 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
21722 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
21723 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
21724 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
21725 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
21726 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21727 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
21728 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21730 o Build fixes (other):
21731 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
21732 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
21734 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
21735 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
21736 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
21737 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21738 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
21739 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
21740 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
21741 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
21743 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
21744 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
21747 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
21748 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
21749 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
21750 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
21751 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
21752 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
21753 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
21754 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
21756 o Code refactoring (safety):
21757 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
21758 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
21759 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
21760 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
21761 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
21762 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
21763 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
21764 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
21765 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
21766 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
21767 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
21768 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
21770 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
21771 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
21772 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
21773 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
21774 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
21775 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
21776 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
21777 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
21778 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
21779 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
21780 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
21781 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
21782 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
21783 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
21784 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
21785 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
21786 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
21787 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
21789 o Code refactoring (separate):
21790 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
21791 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
21792 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
21794 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
21795 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
21798 o Code refactoring (name changes):
21799 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
21800 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
21801 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
21802 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
21803 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
21804 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
21805 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
21807 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
21808 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
21809 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
21810 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
21811 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
21812 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
21813 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
21814 invalid value, rather than just -1.
21815 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
21816 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
21817 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
21819 o Code refactoring (other):
21820 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
21821 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
21823 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
21824 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
21825 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
21826 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
21827 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
21828 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
21829 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
21830 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
21831 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
21832 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
21833 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
21834 our library structure used to force them to link it.
21836 o Removed features and files:
21837 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
21838 it would be a bad idea to start.
21839 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
21841 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
21842 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
21843 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
21844 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
21845 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
21846 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
21847 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
21848 are no longer in use as relays.
21849 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
21850 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
21851 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
21852 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
21853 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
21854 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
21858 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
21859 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
21860 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
21862 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
21863 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
21865 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
21866 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
21867 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
21869 o Documentation fixes:
21870 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
21871 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
21872 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
21873 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
21874 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
21875 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
21876 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
21877 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
21880 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
21881 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
21885 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
21886 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
21887 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21888 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
21889 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
21890 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
21891 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
21895 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
21896 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
21897 attack that could in theory leak path information.
21900 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
21901 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
21902 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21903 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
21904 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
21905 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
21906 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
21907 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
21908 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
21909 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
21910 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
21911 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
21912 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
21913 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
21916 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
21917 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
21918 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
21922 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
21923 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
21924 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
21925 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
21926 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
21927 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
21928 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
21929 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
21930 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
21931 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
21932 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21935 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
21936 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
21939 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
21940 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
21943 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
21944 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
21945 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
21946 and fixes several crash bugs.
21948 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
21949 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
21950 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
21951 those packages and upgrade anyway.
21953 o Directory authority changes:
21954 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
21955 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
21959 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
21960 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
21961 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
21962 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
21963 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
21964 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
21965 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
21966 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
21967 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
21968 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
21969 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
21970 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
21971 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
21972 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
21973 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
21974 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
21975 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
21976 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
21977 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
21978 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
21979 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
21980 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
21981 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
21982 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
21983 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
21984 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
21985 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
21988 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
21989 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21990 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
21991 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
21993 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
21994 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
21996 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
21997 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
21998 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
21999 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22000 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22001 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22002 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22003 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22006 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22007 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22008 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22009 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22010 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22011 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22012 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22013 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22014 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22015 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22016 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22017 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22018 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22019 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22020 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22021 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22022 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22023 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22024 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22025 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22026 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22027 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22028 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22029 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22030 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22031 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22032 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22033 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22034 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22035 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22036 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22037 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22038 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22039 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22040 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22041 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22042 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22043 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22044 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22045 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22046 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
22047 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22048 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22049 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22050 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22051 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22053 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22054 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22055 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22056 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22057 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22058 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22059 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22060 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22061 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22062 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22063 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22064 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22065 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22066 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22067 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22070 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22071 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22072 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22073 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22075 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22078 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22079 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22080 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22081 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22082 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22083 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22084 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22087 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
22088 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
22089 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
22091 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
22092 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
22093 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
22094 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
22095 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
22096 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
22097 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
22098 (which Tor does not do by default).
22100 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
22101 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
22102 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
22103 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
22104 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
22106 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
22107 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
22108 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
22111 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
22112 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
22113 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
22114 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
22115 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22117 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
22118 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
22121 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22122 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22123 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22124 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22125 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
22126 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
22127 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
22128 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
22130 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
22131 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
22132 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
22133 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
22134 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
22135 close based on processing a cell on it.
22136 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22137 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22138 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22139 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22140 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
22141 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
22142 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22143 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
22144 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
22145 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
22146 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
22147 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
22148 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
22149 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
22150 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
22153 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
22154 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
22155 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
22156 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
22157 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
22158 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
22159 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
22161 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
22162 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
22163 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
22164 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
22165 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
22166 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22167 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
22168 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
22169 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22170 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
22171 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
22172 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
22173 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
22174 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22175 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
22176 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
22177 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
22178 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
22179 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22180 Reported by "troll_un".
22181 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
22182 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22183 Reported by "troll_un".
22184 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
22185 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
22186 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
22187 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
22190 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
22191 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
22192 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
22193 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
22194 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
22195 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
22196 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
22197 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
22198 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
22199 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
22200 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22202 o Packaging changes:
22203 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
22204 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
22207 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
22208 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22209 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22210 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22211 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22213 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
22214 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
22216 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22217 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22218 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22219 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22220 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22221 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22222 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22223 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22224 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22227 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22230 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
22231 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
22232 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
22234 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
22235 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
22236 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
22237 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
22238 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
22239 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
22240 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
22241 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
22242 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
22243 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
22244 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
22245 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
22246 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
22248 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
22249 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
22250 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
22251 currently connected to them.
22253 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
22254 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
22255 remain; see for example proposal 188.
22257 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
22258 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22259 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22260 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22261 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22262 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22263 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22264 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22265 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22266 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22267 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22268 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
22269 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
22270 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
22271 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
22272 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
22273 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
22274 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
22277 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
22278 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
22279 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
22280 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
22281 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
22282 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
22283 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
22284 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22285 when bridges were introduced.
22286 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22287 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22288 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22289 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22290 Found by "frosty_un".
22293 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
22294 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
22296 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
22297 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
22298 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
22299 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
22300 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
22301 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
22302 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
22305 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
22306 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
22307 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
22308 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
22309 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
22310 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
22311 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
22312 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
22313 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
22314 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
22315 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
22316 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
22317 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
22318 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
22319 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
22320 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
22321 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
22322 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
22324 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
22325 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
22326 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
22327 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22328 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
22329 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
22330 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
22331 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
22332 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
22333 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
22334 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
22335 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22338 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
22339 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
22340 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
22341 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22344 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
22345 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22346 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22347 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22348 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22350 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22351 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
22352 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
22353 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
22354 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
22355 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
22356 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
22357 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22358 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22359 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22361 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22362 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22363 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22364 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22365 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22366 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22367 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22368 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22369 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22370 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22371 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22372 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22373 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22374 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22375 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22376 Found by "frosty_un".
22377 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
22378 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
22379 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
22380 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
22381 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
22382 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22383 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
22384 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
22385 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22386 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
22387 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
22388 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
22389 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22390 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
22391 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
22392 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
22393 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
22394 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
22395 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
22397 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22398 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
22399 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
22400 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
22401 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
22402 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
22403 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
22404 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
22406 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
22407 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
22408 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
22409 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
22410 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
22411 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
22412 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
22413 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
22414 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
22415 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
22416 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
22417 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
22419 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
22420 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22421 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
22422 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22423 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
22424 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22425 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
22426 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
22427 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
22429 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
22431 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
22432 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
22433 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
22434 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22435 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
22436 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
22437 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
22438 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22440 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
22441 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
22442 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
22443 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
22444 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
22446 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22447 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
22448 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
22449 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
22450 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22453 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
22454 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
22455 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
22456 reachable from Iran again.
22459 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
22460 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
22461 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22463 o Minor features (security):
22464 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
22465 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
22466 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
22467 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
22468 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
22469 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
22470 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
22471 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
22472 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
22473 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
22476 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
22477 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
22478 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
22479 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
22480 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
22481 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
22482 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
22483 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
22484 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22486 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22487 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
22488 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
22489 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
22490 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
22491 raised by bug 3898.
22492 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
22493 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
22494 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
22495 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
22496 fixes part of bug 2442.
22497 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
22498 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
22499 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
22501 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
22502 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
22503 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
22504 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
22505 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22508 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
22509 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22510 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
22511 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
22512 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
22513 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
22516 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
22517 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
22518 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
22519 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
22520 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
22521 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
22522 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
22523 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
22524 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
22525 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
22527 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
22528 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
22529 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
22530 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
22531 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
22532 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
22533 many many other features and bugfixes.
22535 o Major features (client performance):
22536 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
22537 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
22538 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
22539 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
22540 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
22541 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
22543 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
22544 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
22545 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
22546 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
22547 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
22548 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
22549 the first implementation of this feature.
22551 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
22552 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
22553 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
22554 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
22555 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
22556 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
22557 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
22558 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
22559 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
22560 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
22561 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
22562 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
22563 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
22564 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
22565 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
22566 file. Implements ticket 1296.
22568 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
22569 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
22570 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
22571 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
22572 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
22573 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
22574 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
22575 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
22576 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
22577 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
22578 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
22579 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
22580 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
22581 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
22582 they first get the Guard flag.
22583 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
22584 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
22585 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
22586 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
22587 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
22588 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
22589 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
22590 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
22592 o Major features (relays control their load better):
22593 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
22594 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
22595 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
22596 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
22597 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
22598 based on a variant of proposal 163.
22599 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
22600 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
22601 but never per-conn write limits.
22602 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
22603 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
22604 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
22605 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
22607 o Major features (controllers):
22608 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
22609 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
22610 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
22611 contributions to the network.
22612 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
22613 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
22614 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
22616 o Major features (directory authorities):
22617 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
22618 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
22619 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
22621 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
22622 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
22623 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
22624 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
22625 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
22626 download consensus + microdescriptors".
22627 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
22628 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
22629 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
22630 hash algorithm in the future.
22631 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
22632 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
22633 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
22635 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
22636 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
22637 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
22638 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
22639 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
22640 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
22641 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
22642 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
22643 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
22644 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
22645 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
22646 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
22647 connections to directory servers.
22648 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
22649 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
22650 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
22651 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
22652 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
22653 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
22654 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
22655 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
22656 information, or fetch directory information.
22657 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
22658 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
22659 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
22660 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
22661 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
22663 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
22664 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
22665 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
22666 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
22667 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
22668 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
22669 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
22670 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
22671 the network changes.
22672 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
22673 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
22675 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
22676 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
22677 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
22678 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
22679 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
22680 unless you really want your Tor to break.
22681 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
22682 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
22683 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
22684 - When StrictNodes is 1:
22685 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
22686 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
22687 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
22688 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
22689 reachability self-tests.
22690 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
22691 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
22692 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
22693 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
22694 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
22696 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
22697 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22698 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
22700 o Major features (misc):
22701 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
22702 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
22703 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
22704 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
22705 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
22706 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
22707 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
22708 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
22709 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
22710 part of ticket 3076.
22711 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
22712 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
22713 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
22715 o Code security improvements:
22716 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
22717 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
22718 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
22719 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
22720 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
22721 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
22722 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
22723 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
22724 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
22725 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22726 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
22727 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
22728 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
22729 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
22730 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
22731 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
22732 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
22733 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
22734 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
22735 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
22736 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
22737 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
22738 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
22739 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
22740 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
22741 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
22742 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
22743 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
22745 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
22746 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
22747 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
22748 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
22749 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
22750 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
22751 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
22752 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
22753 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
22754 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
22755 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
22756 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
22757 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
22759 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
22760 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
22761 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
22763 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
22764 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
22766 o Major bugfixes (stability):
22767 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22768 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22769 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22770 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
22771 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22772 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
22773 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
22774 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
22775 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
22776 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
22777 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
22778 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
22779 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
22780 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
22781 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
22782 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
22784 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
22785 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
22786 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
22788 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
22789 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
22790 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
22791 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
22792 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
22793 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
22794 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
22795 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
22796 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
22797 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
22798 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
22799 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
22800 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
22801 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
22802 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
22803 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
22804 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
22805 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
22806 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22808 o Privacy fixes (clients):
22809 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
22810 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
22811 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
22812 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
22813 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
22814 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22815 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
22816 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
22817 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
22819 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
22820 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
22821 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
22822 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
22823 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
22824 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
22825 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
22826 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
22827 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
22828 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
22830 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
22831 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
22832 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
22833 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22834 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
22835 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
22836 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22837 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
22838 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
22839 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
22840 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
22841 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
22842 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
22844 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
22845 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
22846 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
22847 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
22848 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
22849 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
22850 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
22851 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
22852 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
22853 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
22855 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
22856 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
22857 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
22858 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
22859 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
22860 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
22861 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
22863 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
22864 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
22865 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
22866 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
22867 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
22868 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
22869 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
22870 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
22871 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
22872 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
22873 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
22874 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
22875 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
22876 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
22877 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
22879 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22880 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
22881 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
22882 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
22883 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
22884 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
22885 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
22887 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
22888 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
22889 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
22890 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
22891 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
22892 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
22893 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
22894 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
22896 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
22897 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
22898 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
22899 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
22900 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
22901 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
22902 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
22903 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
22904 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
22905 the longest-lived bug prize.
22906 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
22907 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
22908 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
22909 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
22910 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
22911 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
22912 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
22913 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
22914 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
22915 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
22917 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
22918 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
22919 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
22920 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
22921 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
22922 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
22925 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22926 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
22927 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
22928 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
22929 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
22930 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
22931 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
22932 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
22933 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
22934 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
22935 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
22936 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22937 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
22938 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
22939 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
22940 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
22941 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
22942 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
22943 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
22944 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
22945 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
22946 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
22947 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
22948 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
22949 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
22950 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
22952 o Major bugfixes (misc):
22953 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
22954 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
22955 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22956 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
22957 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
22958 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
22959 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
22960 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
22962 o Minor features (relays):
22963 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
22964 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
22965 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
22966 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
22967 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
22968 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
22969 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
22970 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
22972 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
22973 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
22974 Resolves ticket 3252.
22975 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
22976 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
22978 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
22979 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
22980 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
22981 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
22982 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
22984 o Minor features (network statistics):
22985 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
22986 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
22987 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
22988 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
22989 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
22990 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
22991 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
22992 measure download times.
22993 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22994 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
22996 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
22997 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
22998 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22999 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
23001 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
23002 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
23003 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
23005 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
23006 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
23007 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
23008 Implements ticket 2432.
23009 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
23010 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
23011 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
23012 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
23013 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
23014 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
23015 Implements enhancement 1790.
23016 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
23017 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
23019 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
23020 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
23021 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
23022 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
23023 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
23024 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
23025 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
23027 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23029 o Minor features (clients):
23030 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
23031 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
23032 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
23033 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
23035 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
23036 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
23037 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
23038 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
23039 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
23040 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
23041 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
23042 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
23044 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
23045 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
23046 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
23047 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
23048 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
23049 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
23050 SSL handshake issues.
23052 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23053 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
23054 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
23055 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
23056 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
23057 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
23058 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
23059 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
23060 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
23061 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
23062 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
23063 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
23064 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
23065 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
23066 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
23067 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
23068 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
23069 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
23070 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
23071 hour of their uptime.
23072 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
23073 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
23074 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
23075 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
23077 o Minor features (hidden services):
23078 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
23079 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
23080 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
23081 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
23082 Required by fix for bug 3000.
23083 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
23084 by fix for bug 3000.
23085 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
23086 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
23087 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
23088 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
23089 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
23091 o Minor features (controller interface):
23092 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
23093 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
23094 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
23095 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
23096 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
23097 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
23098 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
23099 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
23100 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
23101 over our stored history.
23102 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
23103 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
23104 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
23106 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
23107 to the circuit build timeout.
23108 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
23109 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
23110 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
23112 o Minor features (controller protocol):
23113 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
23114 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
23115 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
23117 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
23118 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
23119 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
23120 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
23121 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
23122 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
23123 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
23124 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
23125 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
23126 arguments we do not recognize.
23128 o Minor features (more useful logging):
23129 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
23130 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
23131 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
23132 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
23133 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
23134 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
23135 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
23136 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
23137 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
23138 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
23139 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
23140 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
23141 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
23142 got suppressed since the last warning.
23143 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
23144 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
23145 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
23146 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
23147 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
23148 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
23149 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
23151 o Minor features (log domains):
23152 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
23153 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
23154 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
23156 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
23157 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
23159 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
23160 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
23161 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
23163 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
23164 during the TLS handshake.
23166 o Minor features (build process):
23167 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
23168 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
23169 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
23171 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
23172 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
23173 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
23175 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
23176 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
23177 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
23178 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
23179 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
23180 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
23182 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
23183 source files Tor was built with.
23184 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
23185 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
23186 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
23187 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
23188 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
23189 speeds up the build considerably.
23191 o Minor features (options / torrc):
23192 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
23193 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
23194 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
23195 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
23196 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
23197 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
23198 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
23199 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
23200 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
23201 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
23202 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
23203 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
23204 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
23205 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
23206 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
23207 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
23208 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
23209 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
23210 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
23211 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
23212 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
23213 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
23214 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
23215 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
23216 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
23217 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
23218 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
23220 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
23221 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
23222 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
23225 o Minor features (unit tests):
23226 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
23227 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
23228 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
23229 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
23230 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
23231 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
23233 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
23234 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
23237 o Minor features (misc):
23238 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
23239 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
23240 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
23241 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
23243 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
23244 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
23245 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
23246 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
23247 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
23249 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
23250 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
23251 open() without checking it.
23252 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
23253 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
23254 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
23255 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
23257 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23258 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
23259 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
23260 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
23261 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
23262 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
23263 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
23264 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
23265 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
23266 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
23267 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
23268 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
23269 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
23270 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
23271 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
23272 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
23273 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
23274 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
23275 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
23276 based on the time during which we were active and not in
23277 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
23278 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
23279 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
23280 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
23281 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23282 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
23283 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
23284 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
23286 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
23287 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
23288 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
23289 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
23291 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23292 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
23293 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
23294 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
23295 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
23297 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
23298 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
23299 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23300 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
23301 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
23302 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
23303 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
23304 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
23305 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
23306 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
23307 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
23308 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
23309 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
23311 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23312 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
23313 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
23314 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
23315 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
23316 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
23317 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
23318 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
23319 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
23320 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
23321 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
23322 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23323 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
23324 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
23325 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
23326 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
23327 two-hop circuits are actually created.
23328 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
23329 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23330 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
23331 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
23333 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
23334 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
23335 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
23336 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
23337 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
23338 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
23339 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
23340 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
23341 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
23343 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
23344 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
23345 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
23346 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
23347 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
23348 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
23349 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
23350 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
23351 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
23352 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
23353 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
23354 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
23355 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
23358 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23359 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
23360 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
23361 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
23362 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23363 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
23364 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
23365 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
23366 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
23367 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
23368 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
23370 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23371 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23373 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
23374 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
23375 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
23376 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
23377 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23378 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
23379 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
23380 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
23382 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
23383 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
23384 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
23385 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23386 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
23387 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
23388 discovered by katmagic.
23389 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
23390 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
23392 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
23393 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
23394 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
23395 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
23396 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
23397 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
23398 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23399 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23400 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23402 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
23403 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
23405 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
23406 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
23408 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
23409 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
23411 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
23412 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
23413 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
23414 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
23415 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
23416 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
23417 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
23418 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
23419 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
23420 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
23421 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
23422 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
23423 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
23424 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
23425 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
23427 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
23428 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
23429 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
23430 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
23431 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
23432 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
23433 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
23434 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
23435 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
23437 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
23438 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
23439 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
23441 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
23442 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
23443 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
23444 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
23446 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
23447 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
23448 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
23449 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
23450 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23451 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
23452 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
23454 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
23455 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
23456 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
23457 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23458 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
23459 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
23461 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
23462 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
23463 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
23464 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
23465 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
23466 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
23467 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
23468 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23469 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
23471 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
23472 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
23473 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23474 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
23475 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23476 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
23477 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
23478 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
23479 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
23480 control-spec.txt said they were.
23482 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23483 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
23484 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
23486 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
23487 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23488 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
23489 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
23490 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
23492 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
23493 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
23495 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
23496 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
23497 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
23498 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
23499 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
23500 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
23501 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
23503 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
23504 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
23505 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
23506 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23507 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
23508 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
23509 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
23510 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
23513 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
23514 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
23515 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
23516 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
23517 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
23518 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
23519 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
23520 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
23521 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
23522 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
23523 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
23524 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23525 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
23526 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
23527 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
23529 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
23530 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
23531 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
23532 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
23533 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
23534 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23535 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23537 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
23538 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
23541 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
23542 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
23543 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
23544 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
23545 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23546 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
23547 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
23548 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
23549 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
23550 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
23551 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
23552 fixes part of bug 3407.
23553 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
23554 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
23555 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
23556 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
23557 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
23558 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
23559 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
23560 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
23561 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
23562 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
23564 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
23565 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
23566 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
23567 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
23568 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
23569 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
23570 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
23571 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23572 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
23573 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
23574 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
23575 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23576 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
23577 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
23578 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
23579 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
23580 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
23582 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
23583 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
23584 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
23585 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
23586 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
23587 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
23588 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23589 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
23590 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
23591 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
23592 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
23593 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
23595 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
23596 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
23597 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
23598 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
23599 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
23601 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
23602 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
23603 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
23604 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
23606 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
23607 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
23608 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
23609 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
23610 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
23611 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
23612 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
23613 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
23614 structures and defines in or.h for now.
23615 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
23617 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
23618 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23619 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23620 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23621 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
23622 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
23623 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
23624 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
23626 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
23627 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
23628 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
23630 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
23631 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
23632 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
23633 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
23634 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
23635 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
23636 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
23637 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
23638 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
23639 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
23641 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
23643 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
23644 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
23645 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
23646 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
23647 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
23648 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
23649 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
23650 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
23651 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
23652 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
23654 o Documentation changes:
23655 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
23656 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
23658 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
23659 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
23660 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
23661 what should go in a patch.
23662 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
23664 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
23665 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
23666 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
23667 projects directory in svn.
23669 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
23670 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
23671 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
23672 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
23673 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
23674 hidden service usage.
23675 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
23676 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
23677 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
23678 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
23679 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
23682 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
23683 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
23684 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
23685 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
23686 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
23689 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
23690 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
23691 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
23692 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
23693 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
23694 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23695 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23696 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
23697 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
23698 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
23699 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
23700 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
23701 via application-level web tricks.
23702 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
23703 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
23704 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
23705 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
23706 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
23707 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
23708 send a body too). Since only server versions before
23709 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
23710 keep the workaround in place.
23711 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
23712 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
23713 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
23714 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
23715 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
23716 want to do it differently.
23717 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
23718 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
23719 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
23722 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
23723 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
23724 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
23725 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
23726 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
23727 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
23730 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
23731 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
23732 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
23733 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
23734 the rest of bug 1074.
23735 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
23736 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23737 Found by "piebeer".
23738 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
23739 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
23740 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
23741 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
23742 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
23743 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
23744 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23747 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
23749 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23752 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
23753 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
23754 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
23755 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
23756 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
23757 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
23758 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
23759 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
23760 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
23761 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
23762 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23764 o Packaging changes:
23765 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
23766 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
23767 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
23768 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
23769 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
23770 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23773 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
23774 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
23775 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
23776 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
23777 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
23779 o Major bugfixes (security):
23780 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
23781 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
23782 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
23784 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
23785 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
23786 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
23787 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
23788 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
23789 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
23790 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
23791 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
23793 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23794 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
23795 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
23796 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
23797 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
23798 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
23799 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
23800 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
23801 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
23802 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
23803 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
23804 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
23805 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
23806 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
23809 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23810 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
23811 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
23812 bug reported by doorss.
23813 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
23814 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
23815 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23816 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
23817 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
23819 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
23820 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
23821 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
23822 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
23823 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
23826 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23827 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
23830 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
23831 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
23832 Automake 1.7 or later.
23833 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
23834 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
23835 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
23836 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
23839 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
23840 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
23841 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
23842 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
23846 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
23847 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
23848 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
23849 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
23851 o Directory authority changes:
23852 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23855 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23858 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
23859 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
23860 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
23861 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
23862 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
23865 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
23866 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
23867 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
23868 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
23869 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23870 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
23871 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
23872 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
23873 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
23874 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23875 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
23876 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23877 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
23878 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
23879 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
23880 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
23881 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
23882 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
23883 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
23884 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
23885 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
23886 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
23887 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
23890 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
23891 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
23892 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
23893 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
23895 o New directory authorities:
23896 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
23900 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
23901 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
23902 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
23904 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
23905 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
23906 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
23907 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
23908 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
23909 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
23911 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
23912 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
23913 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
23916 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
23917 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
23918 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
23919 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
23920 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
23921 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
23922 Patch from mingw-san.
23925 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
23926 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
23927 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
23928 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
23929 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
23930 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
23933 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
23934 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
23935 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
23936 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
23937 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
23939 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
23940 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
23943 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
23944 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
23945 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
23946 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
23947 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
23948 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
23949 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
23950 their directory fetches over TLS).
23951 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
23952 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
23953 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
23954 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
23955 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
23956 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
23957 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
23958 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
23961 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
23962 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
23966 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
23967 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23968 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
23969 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
23970 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
23971 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
23972 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23975 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
23976 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
23977 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
23978 several minor potential security bugs.
23981 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
23982 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
23983 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
23984 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
23985 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
23986 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
23987 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
23990 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
23991 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
23993 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
23994 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
23995 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
23996 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
23999 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
24000 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
24004 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
24005 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
24006 customized patches to run/build.
24009 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
24010 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
24011 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
24014 o Major bugfixes (performance):
24015 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
24016 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
24017 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
24018 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
24019 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
24020 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
24021 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
24024 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
24025 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
24026 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
24027 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
24028 libraries in a security patch.
24029 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
24030 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
24031 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
24032 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
24036 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
24037 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
24040 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
24041 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
24042 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
24043 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
24044 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
24047 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
24048 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
24049 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
24050 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
24051 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
24053 o Directory authority changes:
24054 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
24058 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
24059 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
24060 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24063 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
24064 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
24065 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
24066 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
24067 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
24070 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
24071 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
24072 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
24073 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
24074 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
24075 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
24076 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
24079 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
24080 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
24081 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24082 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
24083 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
24084 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
24086 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
24087 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
24090 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
24091 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
24092 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
24093 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24095 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
24096 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
24098 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
24099 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
24100 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
24101 in the Vidalia Settings window.
24104 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
24105 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
24106 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
24107 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
24108 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
24110 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
24111 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
24113 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
24114 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
24115 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
24118 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
24119 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
24120 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
24122 o New directory authorities:
24123 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
24125 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24128 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
24129 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
24131 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
24132 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
24133 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24134 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
24135 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
24136 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
24137 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24138 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24139 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
24140 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
24141 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
24142 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
24143 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
24144 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
24145 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
24146 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
24147 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
24149 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
24150 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
24151 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
24153 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
24154 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
24158 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
24159 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
24160 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
24161 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
24162 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
24165 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
24166 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
24170 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
24171 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
24172 part of patch provided by "optimist".
24175 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
24176 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
24177 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
24178 and confuse fewer users.
24181 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
24182 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
24183 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
24184 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
24185 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
24186 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
24187 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
24190 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
24191 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
24192 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
24193 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
24194 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
24195 other features and bug fixes.
24197 o Major features (clients):
24198 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
24199 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
24200 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
24201 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
24203 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
24204 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
24205 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
24206 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
24207 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
24208 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
24209 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
24210 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
24211 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
24212 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
24214 o Major features (relays):
24215 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
24216 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
24217 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
24218 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
24219 data. Found by Jacob.
24220 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
24221 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
24222 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
24223 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
24225 o Major features (hidden services):
24226 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
24227 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
24228 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
24229 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
24230 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
24231 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
24232 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
24233 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
24234 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
24235 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
24236 lookups more reliable.
24238 o Major features (path selection):
24239 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
24240 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
24241 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
24242 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
24243 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
24245 o Major features (misc):
24246 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
24247 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
24249 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
24250 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
24251 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
24252 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
24253 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
24254 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
24256 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
24257 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
24258 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
24259 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
24261 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
24264 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
24265 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
24266 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
24267 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
24268 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
24269 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
24270 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
24271 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
24272 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
24273 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
24274 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
24275 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
24276 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
24277 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
24278 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
24279 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
24280 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
24281 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
24282 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
24283 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
24284 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24285 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
24286 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
24287 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
24288 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
24289 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
24290 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
24291 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
24292 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
24293 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
24294 Implements proposal 148.
24296 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24297 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
24298 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
24299 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
24300 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
24301 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
24303 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
24304 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
24305 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
24306 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
24307 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
24308 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24309 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
24310 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24311 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
24313 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
24314 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
24315 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
24316 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
24318 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
24319 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
24320 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
24321 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
24322 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
24323 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
24324 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
24325 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
24326 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24328 o Major bugfixes (clients):
24329 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
24330 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
24331 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
24332 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
24333 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
24334 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
24335 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
24336 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
24337 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
24338 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
24339 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
24340 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
24341 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
24342 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
24343 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
24346 o Major bugfixes (relays):
24347 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
24348 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
24349 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
24350 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
24351 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
24352 patch by Sebastian.
24353 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24354 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24355 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24356 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
24357 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
24358 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
24359 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
24360 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
24361 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
24362 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
24365 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24366 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
24367 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
24368 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
24369 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
24370 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
24372 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
24373 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
24374 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
24375 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
24376 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
24377 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
24378 on a typical directory cache.
24379 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
24380 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
24381 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
24382 and may reduce fragmentation.
24384 o New/changed config options:
24385 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
24386 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
24387 Suggested by Lucky Green.
24388 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
24389 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
24390 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
24391 locked down these days.
24392 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
24393 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24394 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
24395 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
24396 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
24397 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
24398 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
24399 output to messages of warning and error severity.
24400 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
24401 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
24402 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
24403 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
24404 directory requests we should expect to see.
24405 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
24406 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
24407 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
24408 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
24409 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
24410 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
24411 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
24413 o Minor features (relays):
24414 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
24415 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
24416 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
24417 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
24418 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
24420 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
24421 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
24422 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
24423 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
24424 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
24425 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
24426 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
24427 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
24428 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
24429 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
24430 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
24431 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
24432 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
24434 o Minor features (directory authorities):
24435 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
24436 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
24437 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
24438 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
24439 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
24440 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
24441 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
24442 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
24443 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
24444 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
24446 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
24447 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
24448 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
24449 fingerprints with or without space.
24451 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
24452 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
24453 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
24454 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
24455 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
24456 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
24457 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
24458 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
24459 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
24461 o Minor features (bridges):
24462 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
24463 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
24465 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
24466 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
24469 o Minor features (hidden services):
24470 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
24471 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
24472 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
24473 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
24474 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
24475 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
24476 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
24477 faster after restart.
24478 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
24479 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
24481 o Minor features (build and packaging):
24482 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
24484 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
24485 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
24487 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
24488 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
24489 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
24490 entirely. Patch from coderman.
24491 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
24492 are built without support for deprecated functions.
24493 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
24494 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
24495 system to do it for us.
24496 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
24497 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
24498 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
24499 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
24500 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
24501 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
24502 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
24503 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
24504 the letter of C99's alias rules.
24505 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
24506 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
24507 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
24508 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
24509 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
24510 with log.h on Android.
24511 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
24512 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
24514 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
24515 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
24516 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
24517 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
24519 o Minor features (controllers):
24520 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
24521 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
24522 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
24523 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
24524 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
24525 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
24526 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
24527 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
24528 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
24529 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
24531 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
24532 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
24533 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
24534 been fetched and validated.
24535 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
24536 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
24538 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
24540 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
24541 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
24542 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
24543 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
24544 partway through and wants to catch up.
24545 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
24547 o Minor features (tools):
24548 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
24549 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
24550 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
24551 people find host:port too confusing.
24552 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
24553 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
24555 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
24556 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
24557 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24558 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
24559 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
24560 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
24561 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
24562 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
24563 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
24565 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
24566 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
24567 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
24568 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
24569 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
24571 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
24572 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
24573 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
24575 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
24576 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24577 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
24578 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
24579 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
24580 have already been marked for close.
24581 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
24582 memory performance during directory parsing.
24584 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24585 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
24586 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
24587 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
24588 done that for a long time.
24589 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
24590 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
24591 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
24592 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
24593 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
24594 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
24595 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
24596 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
24597 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
24598 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
24599 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
24600 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
24601 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
24602 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
24603 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
24604 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
24605 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
24606 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
24607 because of a pending download.
24608 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
24609 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
24610 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
24611 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
24612 bug 820, reported by seeess.
24614 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24615 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
24616 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
24617 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
24618 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
24619 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
24620 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
24621 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
24622 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
24624 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24625 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
24627 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
24628 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
24629 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24630 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
24631 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
24632 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
24633 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
24634 of 0. Suggested by lark.
24635 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
24636 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
24637 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
24638 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
24639 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
24641 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
24642 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
24643 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
24645 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
24646 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
24648 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
24649 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
24650 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
24651 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
24652 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
24653 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
24654 rest, and don't automatically fail.
24655 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
24656 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
24657 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
24658 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
24659 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
24660 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
24662 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
24663 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
24664 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
24665 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
24666 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
24667 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
24668 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
24670 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
24671 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24673 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24674 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
24675 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
24676 Workaround for bug 1024.
24677 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
24678 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
24679 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
24680 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
24681 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
24682 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
24683 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
24684 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
24687 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
24688 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
24691 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
24692 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
24693 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
24694 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
24695 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
24696 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
24697 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
24699 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
24700 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
24701 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
24702 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
24703 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
24704 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
24705 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
24706 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
24709 o Deprecated and removed features:
24710 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
24711 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
24712 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
24714 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
24716 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
24717 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
24718 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
24719 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
24720 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
24721 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
24722 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
24723 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
24724 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
24725 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
24726 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
24727 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
24728 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
24729 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
24732 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24733 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
24734 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
24735 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
24736 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
24738 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
24739 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
24740 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
24741 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
24742 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
24743 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
24744 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
24745 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
24746 actual mistakes we're making here.
24747 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
24748 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
24749 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
24750 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
24751 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
24752 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
24753 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
24754 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
24755 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
24756 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
24757 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
24758 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
24759 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
24760 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
24761 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
24764 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
24766 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
24767 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
24768 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
24769 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
24770 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24773 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
24774 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
24775 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
24776 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
24777 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
24778 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
24779 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
24780 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
24781 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
24782 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
24785 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
24786 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
24787 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
24788 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
24789 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
24790 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
24791 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
24792 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
24795 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
24796 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
24797 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
24798 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
24799 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
24801 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
24802 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
24803 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
24804 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
24807 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
24808 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24809 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
24810 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
24811 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
24812 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
24813 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
24814 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
24817 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
24818 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
24819 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
24820 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
24823 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
24824 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
24825 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
24826 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
24828 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
24829 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
24830 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
24833 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
24834 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
24837 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
24838 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
24839 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
24840 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
24841 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
24842 reported by "wood".
24843 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
24844 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
24845 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
24846 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
24847 identify a connection.
24848 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
24849 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
24850 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
24851 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
24852 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
24853 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
24854 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
24855 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
24856 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
24857 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
24859 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
24860 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
24861 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
24862 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
24863 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
24864 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
24865 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
24868 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
24869 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
24871 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
24872 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
24873 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
24874 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
24875 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
24876 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
24877 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24878 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
24880 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
24881 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
24882 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
24883 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
24884 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
24885 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
24886 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
24887 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
24888 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
24889 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
24890 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
24891 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
24892 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
24893 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
24894 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24895 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
24896 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
24897 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
24898 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
24899 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
24900 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
24901 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
24902 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
24903 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
24904 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
24905 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
24906 840. Patch from rovv.
24907 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
24908 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
24909 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
24911 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
24912 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
24913 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
24914 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
24915 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
24916 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
24917 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
24919 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24920 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
24921 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
24924 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
24925 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
24927 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
24928 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
24929 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
24930 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
24931 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
24932 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
24933 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
24934 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
24935 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
24937 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
24939 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
24940 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
24944 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
24945 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
24946 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
24947 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
24948 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
24949 variety of other issues.
24952 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
24953 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
24954 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
24955 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
24956 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
24957 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
24958 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
24959 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
24960 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
24961 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
24962 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
24963 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
24966 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
24967 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
24969 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24970 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
24971 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
24972 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
24973 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
24974 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
24975 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24976 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
24977 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
24978 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
24979 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
24980 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
24981 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
24982 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
24983 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
24987 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
24988 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
24989 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
24990 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
24991 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
24992 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
24993 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
24994 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
24995 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
24996 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
24997 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
24998 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
24999 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
25000 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
25001 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
25002 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
25003 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
25004 list. It has been gone for many months.
25005 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
25006 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
25007 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
25010 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25011 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
25012 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
25015 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
25016 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
25017 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
25018 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25021 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25022 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25023 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25024 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
25025 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
25026 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
25028 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
25029 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
25030 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
25031 pointed out by rovv.
25034 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
25035 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25036 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
25037 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25038 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
25039 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
25040 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
25041 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
25042 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
25043 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25044 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
25045 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
25046 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
25047 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25048 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
25049 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
25050 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
25051 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
25052 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
25053 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
25054 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
25057 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
25058 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
25059 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
25060 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
25061 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
25062 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
25063 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
25065 o New v3 directory design:
25066 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
25067 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
25068 network status document rather than each publishing their own
25069 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
25070 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
25071 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
25072 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
25074 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
25075 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
25076 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
25077 dannenberg (run by CCC).
25078 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
25079 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
25080 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
25081 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
25082 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
25083 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
25084 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
25085 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
25086 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
25087 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
25089 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
25090 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
25091 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
25092 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
25093 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
25094 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
25095 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
25096 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
25097 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
25098 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
25099 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
25100 certain censored countries by default again.
25101 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
25102 Tor's x509 certificates.
25104 o Implement bridge relays:
25105 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
25106 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
25107 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
25108 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
25109 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
25110 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
25111 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
25112 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
25113 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
25114 rather than "v2,v3".
25115 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
25116 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
25117 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
25118 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
25119 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
25120 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
25121 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
25122 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
25123 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
25124 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
25125 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
25127 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
25128 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
25129 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
25130 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
25131 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
25132 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
25133 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
25134 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
25135 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
25136 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
25137 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
25138 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
25139 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
25140 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
25141 bridges are functioning.
25142 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
25143 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
25144 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
25145 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
25146 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
25147 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
25148 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
25149 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
25150 knows that password. Unset by default.
25151 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
25152 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
25153 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
25154 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
25155 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
25156 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
25157 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
25158 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
25159 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
25160 and bridges@torproject.org.
25162 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
25163 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
25164 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
25165 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
25166 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
25167 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
25168 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
25169 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
25170 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
25171 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
25172 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
25173 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
25174 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
25175 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
25176 longer a completely silly thing to do.
25178 o Major features (relay usability):
25179 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
25180 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
25181 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
25182 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
25183 proposal 111 for details.
25184 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
25185 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
25186 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
25187 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
25189 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
25190 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
25191 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
25193 o Major features (directory authorities):
25194 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
25195 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
25196 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
25197 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
25198 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
25199 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
25200 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25201 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
25202 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
25203 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
25204 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25205 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
25206 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
25208 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
25209 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
25210 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
25211 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
25212 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
25213 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
25214 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
25215 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
25216 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
25217 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
25218 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
25219 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
25220 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
25221 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
25222 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
25223 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
25224 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
25225 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
25226 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
25227 general, controller, or bridge.
25229 o Major features (other):
25230 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
25231 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
25232 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
25233 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
25234 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25235 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
25236 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
25237 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
25238 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
25239 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
25240 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
25241 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
25242 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
25243 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
25246 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
25247 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
25248 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
25250 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
25251 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
25252 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
25253 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
25254 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
25255 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
25256 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
25257 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
25258 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
25259 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
25260 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
25262 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
25263 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
25265 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
25266 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
25267 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
25268 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
25270 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
25271 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
25272 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
25273 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
25274 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
25276 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
25277 address maps to an internal address space.
25278 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
25279 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
25280 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
25281 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
25282 complements proposal 107.
25283 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
25284 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
25285 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25286 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
25287 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
25288 reported by taranis and lodger.
25289 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
25290 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
25291 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
25292 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
25293 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
25294 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
25295 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
25296 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
25297 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
25298 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
25299 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
25300 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
25301 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
25303 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
25304 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
25306 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
25307 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
25308 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
25309 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
25310 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
25311 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
25312 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
25314 o Major bugfixes (other):
25315 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
25316 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
25317 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
25319 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
25320 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
25321 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
25322 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
25323 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
25324 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
25325 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
25326 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
25327 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
25328 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
25329 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
25330 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
25331 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
25332 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
25333 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
25334 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
25335 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
25336 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
25337 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
25339 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
25340 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
25341 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
25342 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
25343 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
25344 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
25345 eat all of our bandwidth.
25346 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
25347 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
25348 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
25349 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
25350 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
25351 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
25352 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
25353 bug 688, reported by mfr.
25354 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
25355 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
25356 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
25357 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
25359 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
25360 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
25361 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
25362 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
25363 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
25364 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
25365 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
25366 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
25367 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
25368 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
25369 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
25370 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
25372 o Performance improvements (memory):
25373 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
25374 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
25375 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
25376 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
25377 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
25378 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
25379 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
25380 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
25381 memory fragmentation.
25382 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
25383 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
25384 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
25385 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
25386 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
25388 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
25389 of them were actually distinct.
25390 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
25392 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
25393 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
25394 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
25395 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
25396 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
25397 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
25398 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
25399 performance-intensive.
25400 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
25401 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
25402 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
25403 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
25404 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
25407 o Performance improvements (socket management):
25408 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
25409 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
25410 our allocated connection limit.
25411 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
25412 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
25413 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
25414 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
25415 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
25417 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
25418 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
25420 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
25421 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
25422 is interested in a given message.
25423 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
25424 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
25425 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
25426 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
25427 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
25429 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
25430 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
25431 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
25433 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
25434 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
25435 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
25436 they are the same).
25437 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
25438 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
25439 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
25440 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
25443 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
25444 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
25445 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
25446 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
25447 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
25448 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
25449 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
25451 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
25452 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
25453 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
25454 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
25455 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
25456 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
25457 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
25458 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
25459 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
25460 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
25461 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
25462 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
25463 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
25466 o Changed config option behavior (features):
25467 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
25468 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
25469 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
25470 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
25471 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
25472 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
25473 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
25474 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
25475 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
25476 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
25477 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
25478 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
25479 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
25480 and are reaching it.
25481 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
25482 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
25483 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
25484 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
25486 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
25487 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
25488 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
25489 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
25490 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
25491 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
25492 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
25493 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
25494 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
25496 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
25497 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
25498 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
25499 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
25500 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
25501 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
25502 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
25503 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
25505 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
25506 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
25508 o New config options:
25509 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
25510 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
25511 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
25512 running a test network on a single host.
25513 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
25514 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
25515 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
25516 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
25517 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
25518 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
25519 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
25520 the approved-routers file.
25521 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
25522 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
25523 v2 directory information.
25525 o Minor features (other):
25526 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
25527 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
25528 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
25529 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
25530 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
25531 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
25533 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
25534 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
25535 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
25536 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
25537 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
25538 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
25539 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
25541 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
25542 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
25543 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
25545 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
25546 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
25547 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
25548 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
25549 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
25551 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
25552 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
25553 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
25554 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
25555 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
25556 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
25557 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
25559 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
25560 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
25561 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
25562 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
25563 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
25564 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
25565 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
25566 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
25567 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
25570 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25571 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
25572 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
25574 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
25575 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
25576 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
25577 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
25578 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
25579 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
25581 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
25582 bandwidthburst values.
25583 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
25584 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
25585 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
25586 to mark all our entry points down.
25587 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
25588 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
25589 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
25590 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
25591 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
25593 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
25594 more often than they are allowed to appear.
25595 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
25596 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
25597 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
25598 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
25599 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
25600 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
25601 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
25603 o Controller features:
25604 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
25605 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
25606 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
25607 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
25608 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
25609 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
25611 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
25612 multiple controller passwords.
25613 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
25614 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
25615 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
25616 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
25618 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
25619 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
25620 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
25621 cookie authentication file, and config option
25622 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
25623 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
25624 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25625 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
25627 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
25628 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
25629 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
25630 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
25631 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
25632 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
25633 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
25635 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
25636 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
25638 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
25639 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
25640 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
25641 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
25642 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
25643 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
25644 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
25645 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
25646 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
25647 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
25648 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
25649 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
25650 report the value as a "minimum skew."
25652 o Controller bugfixes:
25653 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
25654 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
25655 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
25656 processes can't run us out of memory.
25657 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
25658 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
25659 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
25661 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
25662 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
25663 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
25664 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
25665 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
25666 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
25667 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
25668 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
25669 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
25670 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
25671 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
25672 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
25673 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
25674 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
25675 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
25677 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
25678 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
25680 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
25681 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
25682 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
25683 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
25684 WARN-severity events.
25686 o Portability / building / compiling:
25687 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
25688 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
25689 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
25690 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
25691 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
25692 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
25693 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
25694 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
25695 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
25696 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
25697 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
25698 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
25699 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
25701 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
25702 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
25703 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
25704 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
25705 Use this version consistently in log messages.
25706 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
25707 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
25708 partial results on small file reads.
25709 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
25710 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
25711 a directory. Fix from lodger.
25712 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
25713 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
25714 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
25716 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
25717 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
25718 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
25719 logging for the unit tests.
25720 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
25721 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
25723 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
25724 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
25726 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
25727 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
25728 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
25729 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
25732 o Logging improvements:
25733 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
25734 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
25735 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
25736 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
25737 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
25738 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
25739 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
25741 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
25742 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
25743 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
25744 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
25745 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
25746 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
25747 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
25748 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
25749 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
25750 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
25751 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
25752 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
25753 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
25754 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
25755 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
25756 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
25757 Good in combination with --hash-password.
25758 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
25759 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
25761 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
25762 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
25763 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
25764 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
25766 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
25767 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
25768 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
25769 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
25770 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
25772 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
25773 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
25774 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
25775 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
25776 makes the log messages nicer.
25777 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
25778 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
25780 o Contributed scripts and tools:
25781 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
25782 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
25784 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
25785 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
25786 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
25787 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
25788 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
25789 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
25790 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
25791 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
25792 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
25793 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
25795 o Newly deprecated features:
25796 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
25797 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
25798 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
25799 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
25801 o Removed features:
25802 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
25803 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
25804 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
25805 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
25806 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
25808 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
25809 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
25810 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
25811 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
25812 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
25813 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
25814 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
25815 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
25817 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
25818 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
25819 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
25820 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
25821 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
25822 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
25824 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
25825 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
25826 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
25827 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
25828 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
25829 patch from Karsten Loesing.
25830 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
25831 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
25832 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
25833 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
25834 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
25835 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
25836 code), this assumption no longer holds.
25837 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
25841 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
25842 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
25843 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
25844 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25847 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
25848 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
25849 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
25850 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
25851 on network address.
25854 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
25855 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
25856 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
25857 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
25858 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
25859 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
25860 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
25861 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
25862 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
25863 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
25864 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
25865 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
25868 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
25869 rebuild our server descriptor.
25870 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
25871 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
25872 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
25873 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
25874 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
25875 nonstandard integer types.
25876 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
25877 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
25878 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
25879 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
25880 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
25882 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
25883 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
25884 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
25885 when they receive them.
25886 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
25887 This includes some 64-bit systems.
25888 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
25889 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
25890 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
25891 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
25892 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
25893 router_get_by_hexdigest().
25894 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
25895 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
25899 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
25900 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
25901 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
25902 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
25903 lists for a few hours each day.
25905 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25906 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
25907 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
25908 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
25909 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
25910 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
25911 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
25912 rend_process_relay_cell().
25914 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25915 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
25916 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
25917 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
25918 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
25919 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
25920 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
25921 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
25923 o Major bugfixes (other):
25924 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
25925 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
25926 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
25927 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
25928 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
25929 circuit cannibalization).
25930 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
25931 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
25932 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
25933 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
25934 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
25935 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
25938 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
25939 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
25941 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
25942 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
25943 absent. Resolves bug 467.
25944 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
25945 a way to trigger this remotely.)
25946 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
25947 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
25948 were reporting the dir port.)
25949 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
25950 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
25951 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
25952 the future. Fixes bug 434.
25953 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
25955 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
25956 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
25957 the onion key from getting rotated.
25958 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
25959 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
25960 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
25961 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
25962 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
25963 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
25964 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25967 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
25968 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
25969 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
25970 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
25971 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
25974 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
25975 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
25978 o Major bugfixes (security):
25979 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
25980 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
25981 become more of a headache than it's worth.
25983 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
25984 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
25985 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
25987 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
25988 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
25989 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
25990 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
25991 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
25992 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
25994 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
25995 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
25996 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
25997 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
25998 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
26000 o Minor features (controller):
26001 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
26002 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
26003 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
26004 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
26006 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26007 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
26008 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
26009 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
26010 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
26011 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
26012 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
26013 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
26015 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26016 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
26017 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
26018 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
26019 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
26020 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
26021 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
26022 if we ran off the end of the list.
26023 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
26024 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
26025 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
26026 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
26027 every time we change any piece of our config.
26028 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
26029 encourage people using them to stop.
26030 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
26032 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
26033 servers to choose a circuit.
26034 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
26035 unparseable piece of it.
26038 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
26039 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
26040 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
26041 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
26042 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
26043 TorK, etc. Or worse.
26045 o Major security fixes:
26046 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
26047 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
26050 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
26051 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
26052 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
26053 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
26055 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
26056 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
26058 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26059 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
26060 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
26061 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
26062 routerlist while inserting a new router.
26063 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
26064 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
26066 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
26067 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
26068 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
26070 o Major bugfixes (security):
26071 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
26073 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
26074 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
26075 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
26076 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
26077 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
26078 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
26079 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
26080 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
26081 guard list unless we need to.
26083 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
26084 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
26085 don't get overused as guards.
26087 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
26088 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
26089 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
26090 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
26091 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
26093 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26094 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
26095 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
26098 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26099 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26100 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
26101 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
26102 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
26103 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
26104 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
26105 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
26108 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
26109 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
26110 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
26111 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
26113 o Directory authority changes:
26114 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
26115 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
26116 or use hidden services.
26118 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26119 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
26120 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
26121 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
26122 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
26123 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
26124 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
26125 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
26126 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
26129 o Major bugfixes (security):
26130 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
26131 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
26132 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
26134 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
26135 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
26136 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
26137 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
26138 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
26139 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
26140 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
26141 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
26142 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
26143 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
26146 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
26147 purpose=controller.
26148 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
26149 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
26151 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
26152 having a hard time downloading.
26153 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26154 partial results on small file reads.
26155 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
26156 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
26157 the gaps in the store get very large.
26160 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
26161 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
26163 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
26164 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
26167 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
26168 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
26169 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
26170 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
26171 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
26172 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
26174 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
26175 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
26176 free speech on the Internet.
26178 o Major features, client performance:
26179 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
26180 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
26181 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
26182 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
26183 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
26184 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
26185 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
26186 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
26187 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
26188 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
26189 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
26190 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
26191 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
26192 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
26193 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
26195 o Major features, client functionality:
26196 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
26197 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
26198 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
26199 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
26200 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
26201 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
26202 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
26203 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
26204 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
26205 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
26206 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
26207 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
26208 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
26210 o Major features, servers:
26211 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
26212 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
26213 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
26214 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
26215 authenticated, so use with care.
26216 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
26217 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
26218 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
26220 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
26221 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
26222 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
26223 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
26224 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
26225 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
26227 o Improvements on DNS support:
26228 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
26229 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
26230 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
26231 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
26232 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
26233 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
26234 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
26235 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
26236 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
26237 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
26238 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
26239 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
26240 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
26241 lets you turn it off.
26242 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
26243 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
26244 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
26245 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
26246 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
26247 useful to the network.
26248 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
26249 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
26250 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
26251 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
26252 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
26253 our tests for DNS hijacking.
26255 o Improvements on reachability testing:
26256 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
26257 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
26258 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
26259 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
26260 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
26261 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
26262 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
26263 if their identity keys are as expected.
26264 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
26265 chews through many circuits before giving up.
26266 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
26267 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
26268 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
26269 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
26270 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
26271 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
26272 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
26273 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
26274 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
26275 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
26276 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
26277 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
26279 o Improvements on rate limiting:
26280 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
26281 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
26282 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
26283 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
26284 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
26286 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
26287 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
26288 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
26289 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
26290 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
26291 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
26292 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
26293 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
26295 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
26296 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
26298 o Major features, NT services:
26299 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
26300 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
26301 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
26302 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
26303 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
26304 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
26305 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
26307 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
26308 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
26309 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
26311 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
26312 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
26313 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
26315 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
26316 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
26318 o Directory authority improvements:
26319 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
26321 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
26322 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
26323 too much load to the exit nodes.
26324 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
26325 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
26326 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
26327 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
26328 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
26329 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
26330 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
26331 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
26332 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
26333 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
26334 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
26335 broken. Not used yet.
26336 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
26337 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
26338 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
26339 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
26340 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
26341 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
26342 non-versioning dirservers.
26343 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
26344 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
26345 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
26347 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
26348 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
26349 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
26350 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
26352 o Directory mirrors and clients:
26353 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
26354 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
26355 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
26356 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
26357 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
26358 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
26359 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
26360 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
26361 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
26362 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
26363 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
26364 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
26365 routers for even longer.
26366 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
26367 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
26368 caching HTTP proxies.
26369 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
26370 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
26371 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
26372 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
26374 o Major fixes, crashes:
26375 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
26376 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
26377 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
26378 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
26380 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
26381 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
26382 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
26383 stream is detached.
26384 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
26385 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
26386 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
26387 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
26388 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
26389 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
26390 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
26391 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
26392 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
26393 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
26395 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
26396 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
26397 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
26398 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
26399 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
26400 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
26401 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
26402 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
26403 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
26404 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
26405 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
26406 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
26407 could return an unnamed server instead.
26408 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
26409 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
26410 a more attractive target for compromise.)
26411 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
26412 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
26413 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
26414 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
26416 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
26417 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
26419 o Major fixes, other:
26420 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
26421 uptime in the descriptor.
26422 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
26423 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
26424 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
26425 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
26426 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
26427 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
26428 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
26429 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
26430 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
26431 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
26432 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
26433 our DirPort now, etc.
26434 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
26435 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
26436 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
26438 o New config options or behaviors:
26439 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
26440 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
26441 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
26442 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
26443 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
26444 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
26445 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
26446 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
26447 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
26448 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
26449 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
26450 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
26452 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
26453 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
26454 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
26455 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
26456 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
26458 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
26459 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
26460 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
26461 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
26462 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
26463 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
26464 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
26465 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
26466 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
26467 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
26468 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
26469 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
26470 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
26471 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
26472 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
26473 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
26474 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
26475 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
26476 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
26477 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
26478 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
26479 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
26480 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
26481 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
26482 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
26483 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
26484 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
26485 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
26486 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
26487 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
26489 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
26490 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
26491 your ORPort is set.
26494 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
26495 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
26497 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
26498 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
26499 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
26500 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
26502 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
26503 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
26504 whether the config options are bad or good.
26505 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
26506 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
26507 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
26508 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
26509 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
26510 result more than once.
26511 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
26512 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
26513 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
26514 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
26515 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
26516 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
26517 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
26518 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
26519 before we check for libevent.
26520 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
26521 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
26522 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
26523 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
26524 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
26525 recommendation system saner.)
26526 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
26527 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
26528 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
26529 now universal binaries.
26530 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
26531 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
26533 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
26535 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
26536 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
26537 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
26538 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
26539 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
26540 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
26542 o Minor features, controller:
26543 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
26544 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
26545 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
26547 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
26548 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
26549 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
26550 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
26551 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
26552 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
26553 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
26555 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
26556 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
26557 connected or resolved cell.
26558 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
26559 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
26560 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
26561 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
26562 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
26563 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
26564 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
26566 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
26567 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
26568 entry guard status as it changes.
26569 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
26570 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
26571 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
26572 watching for STREAM events.
26573 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
26574 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
26575 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
26576 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
26578 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
26579 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
26580 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
26581 working much like those for circuit events.
26582 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
26583 about the current status of a router.
26584 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
26585 a router's status has changed.
26586 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
26587 can tell which events and features are supported.
26588 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
26589 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
26590 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
26591 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
26592 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
26593 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
26594 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
26595 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
26596 for more information.
26597 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
26598 best guess to the user.
26599 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
26600 descriptor has changed.
26601 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
26602 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
26603 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
26605 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
26606 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
26607 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
26608 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
26609 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
26610 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
26611 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
26612 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
26613 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
26614 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
26615 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
26617 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
26618 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
26620 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
26621 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
26622 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
26624 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
26625 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
26626 the controller from learning about current events.
26627 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
26628 reported by Mike Perry.
26629 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
26630 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
26631 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
26632 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
26633 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
26634 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
26635 long nicknames where appropriate.
26636 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
26637 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
26639 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
26640 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
26641 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
26642 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
26643 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
26645 o Minor features, code performance:
26646 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
26647 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
26648 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
26650 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
26651 some profiles, but not others.)
26652 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
26653 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
26654 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
26655 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
26656 operations, for profiling.
26657 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
26658 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
26659 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
26660 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
26661 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
26662 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
26663 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
26664 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
26666 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
26667 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
26668 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
26669 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
26670 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
26671 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
26672 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
26673 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
26674 family lists conveniently.
26676 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
26677 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
26678 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
26679 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
26680 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
26681 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
26682 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
26683 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
26684 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
26685 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
26686 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
26687 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
26688 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
26689 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
26690 of it), is not therefore "up".
26692 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
26693 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
26694 what version a router is running.
26695 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
26696 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
26697 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
26698 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
26700 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
26701 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
26702 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
26703 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
26704 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
26707 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
26708 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
26709 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
26711 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
26712 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
26714 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
26715 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
26716 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
26717 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
26718 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
26719 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
26720 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
26721 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
26722 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
26723 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
26725 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
26726 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
26727 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
26728 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
26729 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
26730 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
26731 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
26732 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
26733 get one we don't recognize.
26736 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
26737 o Security bugfixes:
26738 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
26739 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
26740 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
26741 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
26745 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
26746 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
26747 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
26750 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
26752 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
26753 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
26754 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
26755 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
26756 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
26757 its circuits on demand.
26758 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
26759 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
26760 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
26761 connections more stable on average.
26762 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
26763 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
26764 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
26766 o Security bugfixes:
26767 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
26768 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
26771 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
26773 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
26774 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
26775 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
26776 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
26777 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
26778 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
26779 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
26780 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
26783 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
26785 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
26786 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
26787 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
26788 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
26789 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
26790 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
26791 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
26792 it can't resolve its hostname.
26793 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
26794 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
26795 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
26798 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
26799 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
26800 "extendcircuit" request.
26801 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
26802 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
26803 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
26804 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
26806 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
26807 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
26808 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
26810 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
26811 methods: these are known to be buggy.
26812 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
26813 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
26814 we don't recognize.
26817 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
26819 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
26820 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
26821 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
26822 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
26823 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
26824 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
26825 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
26826 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
26827 test reachability, so you won't publish.
26830 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
26831 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
26832 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
26833 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
26834 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
26836 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
26837 own server descriptor yet.
26840 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
26842 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
26843 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
26844 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
26845 make sure to test via one of these.
26846 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
26847 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
26848 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
26849 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
26850 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
26852 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
26853 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
26854 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
26857 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
26858 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
26859 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
26860 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
26861 directory authority.
26862 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
26863 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
26864 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
26865 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
26868 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
26869 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
26870 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
26872 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
26873 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
26874 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
26875 current guards when picking a new guard.
26876 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
26877 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
26878 when we had more than one pending.
26879 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
26880 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
26881 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
26882 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
26883 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
26884 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
26885 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
26886 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
26887 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
26888 debug the reachability problems better.
26890 o Log / documentation fixes:
26891 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
26892 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
26893 about protocol violations by others.
26894 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
26895 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
26896 about what happened to our old torrc.
26899 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
26900 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
26901 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
26902 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
26903 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
26904 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
26906 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
26907 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
26908 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
26909 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
26910 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
26911 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
26912 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
26913 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
26914 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
26915 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
26916 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
26917 on malicious huge inputs.
26919 o Security fixes, major:
26920 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
26921 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
26922 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
26923 misreading their logs.
26924 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
26925 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
26926 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
26927 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
26928 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
26929 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
26930 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
26931 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
26932 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
26933 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
26934 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
26935 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
26936 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
26937 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
26939 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
26940 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
26941 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
26942 firewall options forbid.
26943 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
26944 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
26945 can only proxy to certain destinations.
26946 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
26947 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
26948 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
26950 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
26951 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
26952 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
26953 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
26954 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
26955 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
26956 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
26957 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
26958 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
26959 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
26960 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
26961 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
26962 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
26964 o Security fixes, minor:
26965 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
26966 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
26968 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
26969 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
26970 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
26971 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
26972 if we've not heard of a server.
26973 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
26974 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
26975 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
26976 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
26977 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
26978 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
26979 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
26980 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
26981 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
26982 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
26983 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
26984 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
26985 aids some statistical attacks.
26986 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
26987 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
26988 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
26989 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
26990 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
26991 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
26992 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
26993 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
26996 o Packaging improvements:
26997 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
26998 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
26999 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
27000 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
27001 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
27002 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
27004 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
27005 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
27006 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
27007 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
27008 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
27009 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
27011 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
27012 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
27013 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
27015 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
27016 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
27017 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
27018 They are useless now.
27019 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
27020 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
27021 is reachable by you.
27022 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
27025 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
27026 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
27027 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
27028 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
27029 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
27030 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
27031 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
27032 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
27033 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
27034 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
27035 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
27036 and isolating attacks better.
27037 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
27038 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
27039 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
27040 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
27041 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
27042 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
27043 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
27044 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
27045 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
27046 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
27047 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
27049 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
27050 can answer v2 directory requests too.
27051 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
27052 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
27053 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
27054 mirrors still cache and serve it).
27055 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
27056 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
27057 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
27058 for clients and for servers.
27059 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
27060 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
27061 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
27062 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
27063 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
27064 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
27065 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
27066 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
27067 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
27068 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
27069 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
27071 o Other directory improvements:
27072 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
27073 fifth authoritative directory servers.
27074 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
27075 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
27076 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
27077 to hang up on them.
27078 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
27079 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
27080 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
27081 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
27082 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
27083 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
27085 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
27086 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
27087 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
27088 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
27089 connections more reliable.
27090 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
27091 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
27092 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
27093 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
27094 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
27095 we fail to connect).
27096 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
27098 o Controller protocol improvements:
27099 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
27100 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
27101 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
27102 applications without caring how our protocol works.
27103 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
27104 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
27105 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
27106 many bytes we've used in this time period.
27107 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
27108 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
27109 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
27110 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
27111 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
27112 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
27113 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
27114 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
27115 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
27116 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
27117 or "signal reload".
27118 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
27119 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
27120 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
27121 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
27122 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
27123 a router in its role as directory authority.
27124 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
27125 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
27126 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
27127 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
27128 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
27129 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
27130 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
27131 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
27132 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
27133 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
27134 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
27135 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
27136 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
27137 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
27138 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
27139 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
27140 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
27141 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
27143 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
27144 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
27145 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
27146 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
27147 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
27148 just tell them to go read their logs.
27150 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
27151 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
27152 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
27153 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
27154 try to be a bit more fair.
27155 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
27156 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
27157 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
27158 and we're using a default DirPort.
27159 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
27160 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
27161 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
27162 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
27163 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
27164 services faster on the service end.
27165 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
27167 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
27168 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
27169 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
27170 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
27171 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
27172 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
27173 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
27174 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
27175 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
27176 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
27177 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
27178 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
27179 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
27180 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
27181 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
27182 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
27183 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
27184 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
27185 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
27186 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
27187 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
27188 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
27189 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
27190 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
27191 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
27193 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
27194 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
27195 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
27196 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
27197 so we can be backward-compatible.
27198 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
27199 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
27200 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
27201 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
27202 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
27203 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
27204 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
27205 initial descriptor forever.
27206 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
27207 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
27208 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
27209 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
27210 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
27211 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
27212 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
27213 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
27214 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
27215 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
27216 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
27217 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
27218 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
27219 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
27220 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
27221 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
27222 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
27223 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
27224 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
27225 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
27226 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
27227 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
27228 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
27229 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
27230 ports that have changed.
27231 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
27232 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
27233 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
27234 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
27235 connections once a week.
27236 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
27237 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
27238 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
27239 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
27240 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
27241 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
27242 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
27243 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
27244 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
27245 able to discover them.
27246 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
27247 want to make it an NT service.
27248 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
27249 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
27250 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
27251 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
27252 memory leaks better.
27253 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
27254 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
27255 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
27256 statistics are now uint64_t's.
27257 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
27258 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
27259 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
27260 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
27261 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
27262 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
27263 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
27264 default ulimit -n is 1024.
27265 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
27266 and its existence is confusing some users.
27268 o Config option fixes:
27269 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
27270 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
27271 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
27272 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
27273 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
27274 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
27275 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
27276 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
27277 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
27279 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
27280 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
27281 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
27282 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
27283 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
27284 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
27285 it would silently ignore the 6668.
27286 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
27287 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
27288 silently resetting it to its default.
27289 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
27290 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
27291 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
27292 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
27293 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
27294 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
27295 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
27296 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27297 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27298 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
27299 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
27300 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
27301 Address config option.
27302 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
27303 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
27305 o Config option features:
27306 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
27307 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
27308 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
27309 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
27310 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
27312 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
27313 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
27314 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
27315 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
27316 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
27317 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
27318 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
27319 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
27320 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
27321 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
27322 in at least some cases.)
27323 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
27324 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
27325 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
27326 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
27327 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
27328 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
27329 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
27330 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
27331 even if we know they're jerks.
27332 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
27333 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
27334 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
27335 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
27336 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
27337 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
27338 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
27339 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
27340 because older Tors do not understand it.
27341 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
27342 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
27343 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
27344 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
27345 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
27346 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
27347 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
27348 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
27349 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
27350 unattached before we fail it?
27351 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
27352 at least this many seconds ago.
27353 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
27354 at least this many seconds ago.
27355 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
27356 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
27358 o Improved and clearer log messages:
27359 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
27360 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
27361 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
27363 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
27364 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
27365 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
27366 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
27367 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
27368 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
27369 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
27370 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
27371 temporarily unreachable.
27372 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
27373 Windows-style errno back.
27374 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
27375 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
27377 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
27378 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
27379 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
27380 exactly for this case.
27381 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
27382 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
27383 don't warn twice about the same name.
27384 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
27386 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
27387 it was self-testing that told us so.
27388 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
27389 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
27390 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
27391 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
27392 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
27393 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
27394 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
27395 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
27396 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
27397 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
27398 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
27399 established a circuit.
27400 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
27401 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
27402 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
27403 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
27404 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
27405 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
27406 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
27407 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
27408 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
27409 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
27410 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
27411 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
27412 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
27413 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
27414 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
27415 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
27416 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
27417 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
27418 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
27419 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
27420 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
27421 testing for reachability.
27422 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
27423 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
27425 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
27428 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
27429 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27430 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
27431 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
27433 o Other important bugfixes:
27434 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
27435 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
27436 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
27437 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
27439 o Backported features:
27440 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
27441 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
27442 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
27443 without getting overloaded.
27444 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
27445 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
27446 503's whenever they feel busy.
27447 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
27448 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
27449 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
27450 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
27451 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
27454 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
27455 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27456 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
27457 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
27458 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
27459 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
27460 too -- so detect and avoid this.
27461 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
27463 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
27464 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
27465 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
27466 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
27467 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
27468 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
27469 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
27470 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
27471 rendezvous circuits.
27472 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
27474 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27475 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
27476 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
27477 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
27478 advertising it because of hibernation.
27479 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
27480 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
27481 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
27482 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
27483 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
27484 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
27485 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
27486 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
27487 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
27488 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
27489 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
27490 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
27491 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
27492 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
27493 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
27496 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
27497 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27498 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
27499 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
27500 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
27501 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27502 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27503 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
27504 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
27505 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
27506 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
27507 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
27508 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
27509 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
27510 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
27513 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
27514 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27515 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
27517 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
27518 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
27521 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
27522 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27523 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
27524 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
27525 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
27526 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
27527 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
27529 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
27530 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
27534 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
27535 o New directory servers:
27536 - tor26 has changed IP address.
27538 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27539 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
27540 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
27541 pthreads libraries.
27542 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
27543 claims its dirport is 0.
27544 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
27545 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
27549 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
27550 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
27551 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
27552 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
27553 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
27554 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
27555 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
27556 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
27559 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
27561 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
27562 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
27563 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
27564 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
27565 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
27566 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
27567 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
27568 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
27569 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
27571 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
27572 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
27574 o Assert / crash bugs:
27575 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
27576 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
27577 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
27579 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
27580 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
27581 TLS errors better in other situations too.
27582 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
27583 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
27586 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
27587 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
27588 duplicate ram over time.
27589 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
27590 reentry and threadsafeness.
27591 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
27592 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
27593 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
27595 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
27596 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
27597 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
27598 point at your Tor server.
27599 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
27601 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
27602 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
27605 o Protocol correctness:
27606 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
27607 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
27608 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
27609 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
27610 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
27611 to abandon partially built circuits.
27612 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
27613 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
27614 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
27615 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
27616 descriptors we just dropped.
27617 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
27618 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
27619 and to take errno into account where possible.
27620 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
27621 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
27622 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
27623 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
27625 o Robustness improvements:
27626 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
27627 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
27628 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
27630 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
27631 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
27632 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
27633 that will want high uptime circuits.
27634 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
27635 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
27636 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
27637 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
27638 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
27639 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
27640 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
27641 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
27642 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
27643 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
27644 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
27645 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
27646 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
27647 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
27648 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
27649 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
27650 for google.com" problem.
27651 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
27652 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
27653 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
27654 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
27655 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
27658 o Reachability testing.
27659 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
27660 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
27661 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
27662 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
27663 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
27664 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
27665 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
27666 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
27667 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
27668 already connected to them.
27669 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
27673 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
27674 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
27675 nickname+key are allowed.
27676 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
27677 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
27678 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
27679 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
27680 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
27681 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
27682 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
27683 have quite wrong clocks).
27684 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
27685 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
27686 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
27687 their descriptors are being rejected.
27689 o Efficiency improvements:
27690 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
27691 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
27692 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
27693 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
27694 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
27695 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
27696 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
27697 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
27698 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
27699 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
27701 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
27702 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
27703 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
27704 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
27705 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
27706 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
27707 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
27708 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
27709 of CPU time plus memory.
27710 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
27711 directory every time you regenerate it.
27712 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
27713 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
27714 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
27715 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
27716 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
27717 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
27718 lowercase when you first see them.
27721 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
27722 hidden services better.
27723 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
27724 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
27725 when we try to launch one.
27726 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
27727 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
27728 attempts to build a circuit.
27729 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
27730 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
27731 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
27732 normal web requests.
27735 - More Tor controller support. See
27736 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
27737 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
27738 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
27739 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
27740 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
27741 to make it easier to write controllers.
27742 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
27743 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
27744 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
27745 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
27746 new log event types.
27748 o New config options/defaults:
27749 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
27750 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
27751 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
27752 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
27753 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
27755 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
27757 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
27758 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
27759 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
27760 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
27761 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
27763 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
27764 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
27765 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
27766 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
27767 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
27768 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
27769 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
27770 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
27771 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
27772 required exit node for certain sites.
27773 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
27774 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
27775 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
27776 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
27777 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
27778 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
27779 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
27780 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
27781 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
27783 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
27784 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
27785 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
27786 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
27787 private-IP addresses.
27788 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
27789 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
27790 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
27791 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
27792 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
27793 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
27794 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
27795 is valid without actually launching Tor.
27797 o Logging improvements:
27798 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
27799 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
27800 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
27801 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
27803 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
27804 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
27805 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
27806 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
27807 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
27808 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
27809 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
27810 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
27811 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
27813 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
27815 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
27816 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
27817 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
27818 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
27819 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
27820 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
27822 o New contrib scripts:
27823 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
27824 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
27826 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
27827 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
27828 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
27829 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
27830 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
27831 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
27833 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
27834 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
27835 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
27836 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
27840 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
27841 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
27842 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
27843 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
27844 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
27845 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
27846 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
27848 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
27849 something more reasonable when first installing.
27850 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
27851 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
27852 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
27853 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
27855 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
27856 artificially capped at 500kB.
27857 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
27859 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
27860 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
27861 they could use instead.
27862 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
27863 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
27864 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
27865 the user asks you to.
27868 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
27869 rather than just rejecting it.
27870 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
27871 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
27872 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
27873 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
27874 rather than just "success" or "failure".
27875 - A more sane version numbering system. See
27876 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
27877 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
27878 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
27879 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
27880 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
27881 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
27883 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
27884 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
27885 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
27886 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
27888 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
27889 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
27891 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
27892 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
27893 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
27894 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
27896 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
27897 whether the server is hibernating.
27900 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
27901 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
27902 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
27903 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
27904 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
27908 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
27909 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27910 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
27911 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
27912 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
27915 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
27916 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27917 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
27918 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
27919 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
27920 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
27921 busy for more than 100 seconds.
27924 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
27925 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27926 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
27927 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
27928 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
27929 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
27930 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
27931 creating actual system users.
27932 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
27933 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
27937 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
27938 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
27939 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
27940 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
27941 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
27942 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
27943 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
27944 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
27945 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
27946 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
27947 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
27948 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
27949 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
27950 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
27951 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
27953 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
27954 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
27955 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
27956 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
27957 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
27958 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
27959 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
27960 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
27961 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
27962 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
27963 existing torrc files.
27964 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
27967 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
27968 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
27969 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
27970 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
27971 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
27972 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
27973 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
27974 the win32 SYSTEM account.
27975 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
27976 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
27977 file descriptors available.
27978 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
27979 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
27980 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
27983 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
27984 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
27985 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
27986 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
27988 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
27989 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
27990 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
27991 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
27992 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
27994 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
27995 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
27996 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
27997 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
27998 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
27999 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
28000 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
28001 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
28002 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
28003 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
28004 800kB/s of capacity.
28005 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
28008 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
28009 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28010 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
28011 need as much processor time.
28012 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
28013 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
28014 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
28015 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
28016 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
28017 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
28018 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
28019 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
28020 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
28021 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
28022 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
28023 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
28025 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
28026 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
28027 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
28028 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
28029 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
28030 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
28031 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
28034 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
28035 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
28036 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
28038 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
28039 style address, then we'd crash.
28040 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
28041 a dirserver is broken.
28042 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
28044 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
28045 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
28046 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
28048 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
28049 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
28050 name out of the warning/assert messages.
28051 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
28052 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
28053 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
28055 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
28056 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
28057 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
28059 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
28061 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
28062 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
28063 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
28064 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
28065 values at once couldn't work.
28066 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
28067 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
28068 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
28069 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
28070 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
28071 they can handle any number of routers.
28072 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
28073 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
28074 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
28075 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
28076 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
28077 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
28078 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
28079 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
28080 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
28083 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
28084 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28085 - Make hibernation actually work.
28086 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
28087 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
28088 don't use the stream status code.
28091 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
28092 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
28093 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
28094 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
28095 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
28096 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
28097 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
28098 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
28099 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
28100 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
28101 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
28102 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
28105 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
28106 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
28107 win32 socket errors better.
28108 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
28109 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
28110 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
28111 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
28113 - Make unit tests work on win32.
28115 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
28116 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
28117 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
28118 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
28119 right after sending the begin cell.
28120 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
28121 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
28122 exit nodes too. Oops.
28123 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
28124 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
28125 the user would get no response.
28126 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
28127 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
28128 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
28130 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
28131 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
28132 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
28133 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
28134 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
28136 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
28137 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
28138 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
28139 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
28140 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
28141 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
28142 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
28143 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
28144 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
28145 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
28146 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
28148 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
28149 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
28150 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
28151 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
28152 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
28153 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
28154 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
28155 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
28156 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
28157 so we don't see those messages days later.
28158 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
28159 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
28161 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
28162 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
28163 they ran out of file descriptors.
28164 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
28165 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
28166 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
28167 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
28169 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
28170 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
28171 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
28172 the ones we find in directories.)
28173 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
28174 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
28175 if you don't want it open.
28176 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
28177 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
28178 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
28179 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
28180 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
28181 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
28183 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
28184 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
28186 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
28188 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
28189 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
28191 o Features (circuits and streams):
28192 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
28193 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
28194 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
28195 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
28196 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
28197 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
28198 the user knows which one it's talking about.
28199 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
28200 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
28201 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
28202 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
28203 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
28204 from Geoff Goodell.
28205 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
28207 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
28208 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
28209 to fill the last cell completely.
28210 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
28211 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
28213 o Features (bandwidth):
28214 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
28215 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
28216 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
28217 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
28218 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
28219 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
28220 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
28221 your billing cycle starts on.
28222 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
28223 hibernation properties by
28224 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
28225 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
28226 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
28227 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
28228 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
28230 o Features (directories):
28231 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
28232 nickname to its identity key.
28233 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
28234 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
28235 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
28236 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
28237 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
28239 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
28240 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
28242 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
28243 will be able to get a directory.
28244 - Http proxy support
28245 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
28246 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
28247 be routed through this host.
28248 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
28249 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
28250 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
28251 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
28252 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
28253 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
28255 o Features (packages and install):
28256 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
28257 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
28258 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
28259 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
28260 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
28261 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
28262 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
28263 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
28264 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
28265 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
28268 o Features (ui controller):
28269 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
28270 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
28271 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
28272 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
28273 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
28274 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
28275 with the control port.
28276 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
28277 use in authenticating to the control interface.
28278 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
28279 configuration to torrc.
28280 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
28281 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
28282 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
28284 o Features (config and command-line):
28285 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
28286 not on the command line.
28287 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
28289 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
28290 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
28291 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
28292 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
28293 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
28294 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
28295 - New log format in config:
28296 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
28297 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
28298 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
28299 from their dirserver.
28300 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
28302 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
28303 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
28304 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
28305 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
28306 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
28307 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
28308 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
28309 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
28310 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
28311 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
28312 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
28313 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
28314 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
28315 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
28316 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
28317 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
28318 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
28319 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
28320 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
28321 than once per minute.
28323 o Features (other):
28324 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
28325 get back to normal.)
28326 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
28327 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
28328 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
28329 log more informatively.
28330 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
28331 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
28332 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
28333 from each other, to hinder linkability.
28334 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
28335 them act more like real nodes.
28336 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
28337 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
28338 1024) file descriptors.
28339 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
28342 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
28344 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
28345 clients/servers with an open dirport.
28346 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
28347 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
28348 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
28349 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
28350 intermittent connections.
28351 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
28352 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
28354 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
28355 in reporting stats locally.
28356 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
28357 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
28358 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
28361 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
28363 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
28364 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
28365 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
28366 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
28367 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
28368 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
28369 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
28370 list to decide who's running.
28371 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
28372 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
28373 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
28374 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
28375 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
28376 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
28377 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
28378 for pointing out this bug.)
28379 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
28381 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
28382 don't put it into the client dns cache.
28383 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
28384 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
28385 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
28387 o Protocol changes:
28388 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
28389 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
28390 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
28391 hadn't heard of before.
28394 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
28395 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
28396 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
28397 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
28398 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
28399 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
28400 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
28401 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
28402 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
28403 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
28404 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
28405 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
28406 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
28407 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
28408 - Directory caching.
28409 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
28410 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
28411 directory they've pulled down.
28412 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
28413 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
28414 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
28415 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
28416 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
28417 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
28418 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
28420 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
28421 This isn't used yet.
28422 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
28423 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
28424 clients don't use this yet.)
28425 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
28426 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
28427 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
28428 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
28429 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
28430 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
28431 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
28432 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
28433 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
28434 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
28435 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
28436 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
28437 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
28438 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
28439 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
28440 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
28441 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
28442 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
28443 - File and name management:
28444 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
28445 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
28447 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
28448 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
28449 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
28450 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
28451 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
28452 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
28453 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
28455 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
28456 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
28457 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
28459 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
28460 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
28461 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
28462 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
28463 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
28464 - New docs in the tarball:
28466 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
28467 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
28468 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
28469 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
28470 know you might want to get it verified.
28471 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
28472 kazaa, gnutella ports.
28473 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
28474 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
28475 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
28476 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
28477 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
28478 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
28479 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
28481 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
28483 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
28484 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
28486 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
28487 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
28488 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
28491 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
28492 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
28493 ask them to resolve the host "".
28496 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
28497 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
28498 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
28501 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
28502 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
28503 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
28506 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
28507 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
28508 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
28509 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
28511 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
28512 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
28513 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
28515 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
28516 hidden service per 15-minute period.
28517 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
28518 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
28519 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
28520 o Fixes for security bugs:
28521 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
28522 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
28523 a trusted dirserver.
28525 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
28526 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
28527 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
28528 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
28529 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
28530 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
28531 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
28532 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
28533 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
28534 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
28536 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
28537 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
28538 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
28539 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
28540 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
28541 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
28543 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
28546 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
28547 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
28548 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
28549 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
28550 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
28551 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
28552 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
28553 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
28554 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
28555 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
28556 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
28557 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
28558 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
28559 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
28562 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
28563 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
28564 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
28565 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
28568 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
28569 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
28570 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
28571 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
28572 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
28573 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
28574 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
28578 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
28580 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
28581 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
28582 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
28583 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
28584 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
28585 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
28586 if you decrypted them correctly.
28587 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
28588 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
28589 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
28590 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
28591 in-memory directories too.
28592 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
28593 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
28594 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
28595 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
28596 just close the circ.
28597 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
28598 - Better debugging for tls errors
28599 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
28600 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
28602 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
28603 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
28604 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
28605 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
28606 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
28607 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
28608 it tells you about the first error.
28609 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
28610 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
28611 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
28612 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
28613 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
28614 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
28615 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
28616 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
28617 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
28618 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
28620 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
28621 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
28624 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
28625 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
28627 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
28628 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
28629 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
28630 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
28631 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
28632 expect it to have a nickname.
28633 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
28634 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
28635 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
28636 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
28637 the dns farm to do it.
28638 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
28639 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
28641 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
28642 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
28643 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
28644 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
28645 but that aren't warnings
28648 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
28649 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
28653 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
28654 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
28655 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
28656 - include missing header fcntl.h
28657 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
28658 - deal with hardware word alignment
28659 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
28660 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
28661 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
28662 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
28663 by kill -USR1 currently.
28664 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
28665 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
28666 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
28669 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
28670 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
28671 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
28674 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
28676 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
28677 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
28678 - And fix a few endian issues.
28681 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
28683 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
28684 try that circuit again: try a new one.
28685 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
28686 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
28687 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
28688 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
28689 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
28690 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
28692 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
28693 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
28694 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
28696 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
28698 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
28699 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
28700 side isn't reading right then.
28701 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
28702 RecommendedVersions
28703 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
28704 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
28705 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
28708 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
28710 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
28711 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
28714 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
28718 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
28720 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
28721 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
28722 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
28723 connection is finished.
28724 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
28725 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
28726 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
28727 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
28728 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
28729 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
28730 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
28731 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
28732 rather than warn and continue.
28733 - Make --version work
28734 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
28737 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
28739 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
28740 knows it's working.
28741 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
28742 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
28744 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
28745 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
28746 so you can collect coredumps there.
28748 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
28749 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
28750 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
28751 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
28752 dns cache actually gets populated.
28753 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
28754 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
28755 end cell down it first.
28756 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
28757 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
28760 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
28762 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
28763 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
28765 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
28766 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
28767 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
28768 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
28769 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
28770 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
28772 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
28774 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
28775 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
28776 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
28777 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
28778 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
28779 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
28781 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
28782 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
28785 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
28787 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
28788 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
28789 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
28790 tor. It even has a man page.
28791 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
28792 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
28793 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
28794 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
28796 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
28798 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
28801 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
28803 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
28804 it, apt-getters. :)
28805 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
28806 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
28807 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
28808 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
28809 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
28810 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
28811 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
28812 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
28813 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
28814 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
28815 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
28817 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
28818 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
28821 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
28823 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
28824 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
28827 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
28829 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
28830 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
28831 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
28832 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
28833 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
28834 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
28835 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
28836 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
28837 logfile so you know it's working.
28838 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
28839 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
28842 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
28844 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
28845 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
28846 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
28849 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
28851 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
28852 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
28853 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
28856 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
28857 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
28858 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
28860 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
28861 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
28863 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
28864 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
28865 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
28867 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
28868 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
28872 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
28874 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
28875 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
28876 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
28879 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
28880 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
28881 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
28882 - Add port ranges to exit policies
28883 - Add a conservative default exit policy
28884 - Warn if you're running tor as root
28885 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
28886 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
28887 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
28888 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
28890 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
28893 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
28894 o Robustness and bugfixes:
28895 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
28896 really screw things up.
28897 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
28899 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
28900 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
28902 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
28903 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
28904 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
28905 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
28906 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
28907 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
28910 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
28913 - Change default loglevel to warn.
28914 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
28915 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
28917 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
28920 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
28921 o Robustness and bugfixes:
28922 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
28923 - to get ownership/permissions right
28924 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
28925 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
28926 pull down a directory again
28927 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
28928 causing server crashes
28929 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
28930 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
28931 - exit if bind() fails
28932 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
28933 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
28934 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
28935 - fix minor bias in PRNG
28936 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
28939 - Wrote the design document (woo)
28941 o Circuit building and exit policies:
28942 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
28944 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
28945 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
28946 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
28947 exists, rather than failing
28948 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
28949 which AP connections are standing by
28950 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
28951 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
28952 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
28954 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
28955 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
28958 - APPort is now called SocksPort
28959 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
28961 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
28962 hardcoded (for dirservers)
28963 - Reloads config on HUP
28964 - Usage info on -h or --help
28965 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
28967 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
28968 o General stability:
28969 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
28970 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
28971 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
28972 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
28973 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
28974 to take down the network when I approve a new router
28975 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
28978 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
28979 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
28981 o Autoconf improvements:
28982 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
28983 - Make install now works
28984 - create var/lib/tor on make install
28985 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
28986 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
28988 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
28989 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
28990 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
28991 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup