1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.8.9 - 2023-11-09
6 This is another security release fixing a high severity bug affecting onion
7 services which is tracked by TROVE-2023-006. We are also releasing a guard
8 major bugfix as well. If you are an onion service operator, we strongly
9 recommend to update as soon as possible.
11 o Major bugfixes (guard usage):
12 - When Tor excluded a guard due to temporary circuit restrictions,
13 it considered *additional* primary guards for potential usage by
14 that circuit. This could result in more than the specified number
15 of guards (currently 2) being used, long-term, by the tor client.
16 This could happen when a Guard was also selected as an Exit node,
17 but it was exacerbated by the Conflux guard restrictions. Both
18 instances have been fixed. Fixes bug 40876; bugfix
21 o Major bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2023-006):
22 - Fix a possible hard assert on a NULL pointer when recording a
23 failed rendezvous circuit on the service side for the MetricsPort.
24 Fixes bug 40883; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
26 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
27 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 09, 2023.
29 o Minor features (geoip data):
30 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
31 retrieved on 2023/11/09.
34 Changes in version 0.4.8.8 - 2023-11-03
35 We are releasing today a fix for a high security issue, TROVE-2023-004, that
36 is affecting relays. Also a few minor bugfixes detailed below. Please upgrade
39 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2023-004, relay):
40 - Mitigate an issue when Tor compiled with OpenSSL can crash during
41 handshake with a remote relay. Fixes bug 40874; bugfix
44 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
45 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 03, 2023.
47 o Minor features (geoip data):
48 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
49 retrieved on 2023/11/03.
51 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
52 - Look at the network parameter "maxunmeasuredbw" with the correct
53 spelling. Fixes bug 40869; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
55 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards addon support):
56 - Count the conflux linked cell as valid when it is successfully
57 processed. This will quiet a spurious warn in the vanguards addon.
58 Fixes bug 40878; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
61 Changes in version 0.4.8.7 - 2023-09-25
62 This version fixes a single major bug in the Conflux subsystem on the client
63 side. See below for more information. The upcoming Tor Browser 13 stable will
66 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
67 - Fix an issue that prevented us from pre-building more conflux sets
68 after existing sets had been used. Fixes bug 40862; bugfix
71 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
72 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 25, 2023.
74 o Minor features (geoip data):
75 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
76 retrieved on 2023/09/25.
79 Changes in version 0.4.8.6 - 2023-09-18
80 This version contains an important fix for onion service regarding congestion
81 control and its reliability. Apart from that, unneeded BUG warnings have been
82 suppressed especially about a compression bomb seen on relays. We strongly
83 recommend, in particular onion service operators, to upgrade as soon as
84 possible to this latest stable.
86 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
87 - Fix a reliability issue where services were expiring their
88 introduction points every consensus update. This caused
89 connectivity issues for clients caching the old descriptor and
90 intro points. Bug reported and fixed by gitlab user
91 @hyunsoo.kim676. Fixes bug 40858; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
93 o Minor features (debugging, compression):
94 - Log the input and output buffer sizes when we detect a potential
95 compression bomb. Diagnostic for ticket 40739.
97 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
98 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 18, 2023.
100 o Minor features (geoip data):
101 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
102 retrieved on 2023/09/18.
104 o Minor bugfix (defensive programming):
105 - Disable multiple BUG warnings of a missing relay identity key when
106 starting an instance of Tor compiled without relay support. Fixes
107 bug 40848; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
109 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
110 - When reporting a pseudo-networkstatus as a bridge authority, or
111 answering "ns/purpose/*" controller requests, include accurate
112 published-on dates from our list of router descriptors. Fixes bug
113 40855; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
115 o Minor bugfixes (compression, zstd):
116 - Use less frightening language and lower the log-level of our run-
117 time ABI compatibility check message in our Zstd compression
118 subsystem. Fixes bug 40815; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
121 Changes in version 0.4.8.5 - 2023-08-30
122 Quick second release after the first stable few days ago fixing minor
123 annoying bugfixes creating log BUG stacktrace. We also fix BSD compilation
124 failures and PoW unit test.
126 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
127 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 30, 2023.
129 o Minor features (geoip data):
130 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
131 retrieved on 2023/08/30.
133 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, compilation):
134 - Fix compilation issue on NetBSD by avoiding an unnecessary
135 dependency on "huge" page mappings in Equi-X. Fixes bug 40843;
136 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
138 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, testing):
139 - Fix test failures in "crypto/hashx" and "slow/crypto/equix" on
140 x86_64 and aarch64 NetBSD hosts, by adding support for
141 PROT_MPROTECT() flags. Fixes bug 40844; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
143 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
144 - Demote a relay-side warn about too many legs to ProtocolWarn, as
145 there are conditions that it can briefly happen during set
146 construction. Also add additional set logging details for all
147 error cases. Fixes bug 40841; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
148 - Prevent non-fatal assert stacktrace caused by using conflux sets
149 during their teardown process. Fixes bug 40842; bugfix
153 Changes in version 0.4.8.4 - 2023-08-23
154 Finally, this is the very first stable release of the 0.4.8.x series making,
155 among other features, Proof-of-Work (prop#327) and Conflux (prop#329)
156 available to the entire network. Several new features and a lot of bugfixes
159 o Major feature (denial of service):
160 - Extend DoS protection to partially opened channels and known relays.
161 Because re-entry is not allowed anymore, we can apply DoS protections
162 onto known IP namely relays. Fixes bug 40821; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
164 o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
165 - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
166 introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
167 protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
168 torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
169 feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
171 o Major features (conflux):
172 - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits
173 traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol. These
174 circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre- built conflux
175 pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used. When using conflux
176 circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency circuit to send data to
177 the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the client, it maximizes
178 throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits in a multiplexed fashion.
179 Alternatively, clients can request that the Exit optimize for latency
180 when transmitting to them, by setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX
181 latency'. Onion services are not currently supported, but will be in
182 arti. Many other future optimizations will also be possible using this
183 protocol. Closes ticket 40593.
185 o Major features (dirauth):
186 - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with directory
187 authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they would continue to
188 upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to the hard-coded address in
189 the configuration. Now, if the directory authority is listed in the
190 consensus at a different address, they will direct queries to this new
191 address. Implements ticket 40705.
193 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
194 - Fix a relay-side crash caused by side effects of the fix for bug
195 40827. Reverts part of that fix that caused the crash and adds additional
196 log messages to help find the root cause. Fixes bug 40834; bugfix on
199 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
200 - Fix a relay-side assert crash caused by attempts to use a conflux circuit
201 between circuit close and free, such that no legs were on the conflux
202 set. Fixed by nulling out the stream's circuit back- pointer when the
203 last leg is removed. Additional checks and log messages have been added
204 to detect other cases. Fixes bug 40827; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
206 o Major bugfixes (proof of work, onion service, hashx):
207 - Fix a very rare buffer overflow in hashx, specific to the dynamic
208 compiler on aarch64 platforms. Fixes bug 40833; bugfix on 0.4.8.2-alpha.
210 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
211 - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the Stable or
212 Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in the L2 vanguard
213 list but never use them, and if all of our vanguards end up like this we
214 wouldn't have any middle nodes left to choose from so we would fail to
215 make onion-related circuits. Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
217 o Minor features (bridge):
218 - warn when a bridge is also configure to be an exit relay.
221 o Minor features (geoip data):
222 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
223 retrieved on 2023/08/23.
225 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
226 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 23, 2023.
228 o Minor features (testing):
229 - All Rust code is now linted (cargo clippy) as part of GitLab CI, and
230 existing warnings have been fixed. - Any unit tests written in Rust now
231 run as part of GitLab CI.
233 o Minor feature (CI):
234 - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners.
236 o Minor feature (client, IPv6):
237 - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning
238 ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785.
240 o Minor feature (compilation):
241 - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version
242 if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
245 o Minor feature (cpuworker):
246 - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the
247 number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a
248 single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
250 o Minor feature (lzma):
251 - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741.
253 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay):
254 - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes
257 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service):
258 - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting
259 seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73".
261 o Minor features (directory authorities):
262 - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr
263 config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote.
264 Now external tools can better predict how they will behave.
265 Implements ticket 40753.
267 o Minor features (directory authority):
268 - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on
269 router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a
270 meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for
271 compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket
272 40130; implements proposal 275.
274 o Minor features (network documents):
275 - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time
276 declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting
277 this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in
278 the future. Part of ticket 40130.
280 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
281 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023.
283 o Minor features (geoip data):
284 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
285 retrieved on 2023/06/01.
287 o Minor features (hs, metrics):
288 - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time
289 histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time
290 durations. Part of ticket 40757.
292 o Minor features (metrics):
293 - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758.
294 - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request
295 failures. Closes ticket 40755.
296 - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757.
298 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
299 - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when
300 their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669.
302 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
303 - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5
304 compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
306 o Minor features (relay):
307 - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non-
308 anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691.
310 o Minor features (relays):
311 - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves
312 fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested,
313 and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597;
314 patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
316 o Minor features (tests):
317 - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit
318 tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu.
321 - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang.
324 o Minor bugfix (FreeBSD, compilation):
325 - Fix compilation issue on FreeBSD by properly importing
326 sys/param.h. Fixes bug 40825; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
328 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
329 - Right after compression/decompression work is done, check for
330 errors. Before this, we would consider compression bomb before
331 that and then looking for errors leading to false positive on that
332 log warning. Fixes bug 40739; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch
335 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
336 - Fix all -Werror=enum-int-mismatch warnings. No behavior change.
337 Fixes bug 40824; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
339 o Minor bugfixes (protocol warn):
340 - Wrap a handful of cases where ProtocolWarning logs could emit IP
341 addresses. Fixes bug 40828; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
343 o Minor bugfix (congestion control):
344 - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc'
345 to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569;
346 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
347 - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation
348 code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug
349 40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
350 - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus.
351 Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
353 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
354 - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that
355 manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773;
356 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha
358 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
359 - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This
360 avoids inifinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building
361 failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in
362 our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets.
363 Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
364 - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that
365 were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
367 - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so
368 that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link
369 handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801;
370 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
371 - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT
372 (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix
374 - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be
375 triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
378 o Minor bugfixes (KIST):
379 - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither
380 of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate
381 KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay
382 KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms.
383 Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
385 o Minor bugfix (relay, logging):
386 - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning
387 logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
389 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
390 - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes
391 bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
392 - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug
393 40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
395 o Minor bugfixes (metrics):
396 - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit
397 close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
399 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows):
400 - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to
401 execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug
402 40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
404 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
405 - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit
406 close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix
408 - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in
409 relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes
410 fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
412 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
413 - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when
414 compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
415 - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of
416 syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are
417 checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of
418 breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599;
419 bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha.
421 o Minor bugfixes (state file):
422 - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes
423 along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437;
424 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
427 - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in
428 Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed
429 anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
432 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
433 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
434 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
435 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
436 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
437 congestion control fix detailed below.
439 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
440 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
441 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
442 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
443 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
444 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
445 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
447 o Major bugfixes (relay):
448 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
449 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
450 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
451 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
452 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
453 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
456 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
457 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
458 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
459 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
460 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
462 o Minor feature (authority):
463 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
465 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
466 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
468 o Minor features (geoip data):
469 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
470 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
472 o Minor features (relays):
473 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
474 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
475 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
476 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
479 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
480 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
481 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
483 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
484 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
485 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
486 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
488 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
489 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
490 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
491 on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha.
494 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
495 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
496 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
497 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
500 o Major bugfixes (relay):
501 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
502 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
503 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
504 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
505 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
506 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
509 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
510 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
511 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
512 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
513 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
515 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
516 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
518 o Minor features (geoip data):
519 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
520 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
523 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
524 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
525 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
528 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
529 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
530 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
531 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
532 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
534 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
535 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
538 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
539 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
541 o Minor features (geoip data):
542 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
543 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
545 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
546 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
547 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
550 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
551 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
552 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
553 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
555 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
556 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
558 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
559 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
560 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
562 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
563 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
564 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
565 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
566 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
568 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
569 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
570 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
571 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
572 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
575 o Major bugfixes (relay):
576 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
577 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
579 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
580 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
582 o Minor features (geoip data):
583 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
584 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
587 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
588 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
589 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
590 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
593 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
594 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
596 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
597 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
598 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
599 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
601 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
602 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
603 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
604 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
605 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
607 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
608 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
609 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
610 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
611 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
613 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
614 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
615 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
616 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
617 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
620 o Major bugfixes (relay):
621 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
622 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
624 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
625 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
626 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
627 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
628 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
629 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
631 o Minor feature (metrics):
632 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
635 o Minor feature (performance):
636 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
637 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
638 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
640 o Minor feature (relay):
641 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
643 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
644 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
645 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
646 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
648 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
649 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
650 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
651 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
652 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
654 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
655 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
656 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
657 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
658 are currently opened and how many were created.
659 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
660 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
661 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
662 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
663 - Related to ticket 40194.
665 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
666 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
668 o Minor features (geoip data):
669 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
670 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
672 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
673 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
674 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
676 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
677 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
678 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
679 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
680 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
681 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
682 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
683 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
684 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
685 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
686 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
688 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
689 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
690 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
693 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
694 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
695 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
698 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
699 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
700 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
701 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
702 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
703 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
704 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
706 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
707 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
708 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
711 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
712 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
713 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
714 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
717 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
718 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
719 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
720 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
721 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
724 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
725 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
726 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
727 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
730 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
731 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
732 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
733 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
734 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
737 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
738 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
739 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
740 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
743 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
744 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
745 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
746 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
747 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
750 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
751 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
752 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
753 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
754 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
757 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
758 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
760 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
761 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
762 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
763 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
764 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
765 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
766 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
767 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
768 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
771 o Major bugfixes (relay):
772 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
773 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
774 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
775 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
776 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
777 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
778 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
780 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
781 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
782 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
783 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
784 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
787 o Minor features (dirauth):
788 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
789 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
790 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
791 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
792 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
793 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
794 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
795 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
798 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
799 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
801 o Minor features (geoip data):
802 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
803 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
805 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
806 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
807 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
808 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
809 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
810 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
811 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
813 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
814 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
815 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
816 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
817 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
819 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
820 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
821 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
822 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
825 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
826 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
827 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
828 stability or safety purposes.
830 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
831 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
832 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
834 o Major bugfixes (relay):
835 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
836 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
837 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
838 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
839 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
840 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
841 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
843 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
844 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
846 o Minor features (geoip data):
847 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
848 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
850 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
851 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
852 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
854 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
855 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
856 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
857 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
858 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
859 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
861 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
862 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
863 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
864 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
865 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
867 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
868 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
869 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
870 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
872 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
873 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
874 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
875 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
876 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
878 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
879 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
880 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
882 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
883 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
884 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
885 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
886 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
887 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
889 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
890 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
891 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
892 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
895 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
896 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
897 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
898 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
899 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
901 o Major bugfixes (relay):
902 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
903 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
904 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
905 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
906 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
907 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
908 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
910 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
911 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
913 o Minor features (geoip data):
914 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
915 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
917 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
918 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
919 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
921 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
922 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
923 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
924 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
925 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
926 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
928 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
929 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
930 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
931 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
932 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
934 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
935 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
936 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
937 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
939 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
940 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
941 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
942 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
943 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
945 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
946 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
947 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
949 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
950 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
951 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
952 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
953 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
954 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
956 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
957 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
958 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
959 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
962 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
963 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
964 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
965 should upgrade to this version.
967 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
968 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
969 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
970 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
971 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
972 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
974 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
975 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
977 o Minor features (geoip data):
978 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
979 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
981 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
982 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
983 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
984 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
986 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
987 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
988 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
989 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
990 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
991 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
992 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
993 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
994 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
996 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
997 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
998 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
1001 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
1002 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series
1003 includes several major bugfixes from previous series and several features
1004 including one massive new one: congestion control.
1006 Congestion control, among other things, should improve traffic speed and
1007 stability on the network once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more
1008 details about it in proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
1010 Below are all the changes of the 0.4.7.x series:
1012 o Major features (congestion control):
1013 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
1014 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
1016 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
1017 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
1018 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
1019 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
1021 o Major features (directory authority):
1022 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
1023 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
1024 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
1025 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
1026 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
1027 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
1028 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
1029 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
1030 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
1032 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
1033 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
1034 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
1035 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
1036 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
1037 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
1038 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
1039 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
1040 40363; implements proposal 333.
1042 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
1043 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
1044 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
1045 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
1046 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1048 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
1049 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
1050 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
1051 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
1052 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
1053 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
1054 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
1055 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
1058 o Major bugfixes (client):
1059 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
1060 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
1061 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
1062 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
1063 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
1064 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1066 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
1067 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
1068 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
1069 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1071 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
1072 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
1073 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
1074 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
1075 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
1076 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1078 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1079 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1080 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1081 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1082 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1083 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1084 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1086 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1087 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
1088 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
1089 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1090 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
1091 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
1092 and not the DNS server itself.
1093 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
1094 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
1095 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
1096 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1097 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1098 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1099 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1101 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
1102 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
1103 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
1104 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
1107 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
1108 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
1109 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
1110 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
1111 Closes ticket 40476.
1112 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1113 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1115 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1116 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1117 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1120 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
1121 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
1122 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
1123 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
1125 o Minor features (compilation):
1126 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1127 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1128 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1129 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1132 o Minor features (control port):
1133 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
1134 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
1136 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1137 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
1139 o Minor features (fuzzing):
1140 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
1141 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
1142 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
1144 o Minor features (geoip data):
1145 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1146 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
1148 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
1149 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
1150 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
1151 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
1152 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
1153 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
1154 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
1156 o Minor features (portability):
1157 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
1158 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
1159 Closes ticket 40355.
1161 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1162 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
1163 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
1164 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1165 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1166 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1167 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1168 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1169 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1170 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1171 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1172 fix for ticket 40337.
1173 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1174 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1175 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1177 o Minor features (testing):
1178 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
1179 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
1182 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1183 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug
1184 40500; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1186 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1187 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1188 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1190 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
1191 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
1192 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
1193 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1195 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1196 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1197 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1200 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1201 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
1202 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
1203 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
1204 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
1205 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
1206 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
1207 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1209 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
1210 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
1211 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
1212 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
1215 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1216 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
1217 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
1218 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1220 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1221 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1222 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1223 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1224 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1227 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1228 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
1229 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1230 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1231 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1232 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1233 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1234 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
1235 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1237 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1238 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
1239 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1241 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
1242 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down
1243 to info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix
1246 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1247 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1248 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
1249 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1250 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1252 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
1253 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1254 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1255 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1256 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1257 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1259 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
1260 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
1261 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
1262 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
1265 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
1266 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
1267 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1269 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
1270 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
1271 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
1272 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
1273 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
1274 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
1275 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
1276 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1278 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1279 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
1280 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
1281 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1283 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1284 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
1285 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
1286 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
1287 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
1288 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
1289 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
1290 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
1291 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1293 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1294 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
1295 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
1296 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1298 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
1299 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
1300 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
1301 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
1304 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
1305 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
1306 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
1307 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
1308 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1310 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1311 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1312 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1313 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
1314 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
1315 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1316 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
1317 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
1318 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1320 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
1321 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
1322 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
1323 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1325 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
1326 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
1327 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
1328 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1330 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1331 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1332 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1333 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1334 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1335 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1336 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
1337 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
1338 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
1340 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1341 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1342 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1343 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1344 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1345 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1347 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1348 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1349 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1350 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1351 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1353 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
1354 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
1355 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
1356 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
1357 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1359 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1360 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
1361 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
1362 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
1363 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1365 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1366 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
1367 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
1368 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1370 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1371 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
1372 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1374 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1375 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
1376 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
1377 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
1378 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
1380 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
1381 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
1382 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
1383 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
1384 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1386 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1387 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
1388 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
1389 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
1390 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1393 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
1394 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
1396 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
1397 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1398 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
1399 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
1400 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
1401 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
1404 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
1407 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
1408 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
1409 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
1411 o Documentation (man, relay):
1412 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1413 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1415 o Testing (CI, chutney):
1416 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
1417 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
1421 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
1422 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
1423 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1425 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1426 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1428 o Minor features (geoip data):
1429 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1430 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1432 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1433 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1434 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1436 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1437 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1438 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1441 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1442 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1443 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1446 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
1447 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
1448 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
1449 See below for more details.
1451 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1452 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1453 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1454 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1455 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1457 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1458 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1459 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1462 o Minor features (compilation):
1463 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1464 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1465 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1466 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1469 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1470 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1472 o Minor features (geoip data):
1473 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1474 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1476 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1477 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1478 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1479 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1480 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1482 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1483 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1484 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1485 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1486 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1488 o Documentation (man, relay):
1489 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1490 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1493 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1494 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1495 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1498 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1499 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1500 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1501 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1502 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1503 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1504 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1506 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1507 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1510 o Minor features (testing):
1511 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1512 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1513 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1514 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1515 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1516 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1517 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1518 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1519 fix for ticket 40337.
1520 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1521 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1522 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1524 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1525 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1526 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1527 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1528 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1529 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1530 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1531 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1533 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1534 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1535 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1537 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1538 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1539 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1540 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1541 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1544 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1545 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1546 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1547 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1548 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1549 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1552 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1553 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1554 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1555 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1556 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1557 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1558 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1561 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1562 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1563 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1564 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1565 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1567 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1568 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1569 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1570 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1572 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1573 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1574 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1575 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1577 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1578 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1581 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1582 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1583 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1584 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1585 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1587 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1588 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1589 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1590 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1591 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1592 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1593 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1594 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1595 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1596 fix for ticket 40337.
1597 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1598 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1599 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1601 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1602 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1603 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1605 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1606 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1607 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1608 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1609 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1610 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1612 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1613 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1614 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1615 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1616 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1619 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1620 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1621 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1622 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1623 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1625 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1626 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1627 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1628 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1629 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1630 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1633 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1634 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1635 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1636 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1637 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1638 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1639 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1642 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1643 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1644 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1645 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1646 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1648 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1649 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1650 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1651 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1653 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1654 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1655 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1656 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1658 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1659 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1662 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1663 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1664 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1665 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1666 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1670 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1671 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1672 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1673 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1674 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1676 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1677 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1678 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1679 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1680 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1681 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1682 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1685 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1686 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1688 o Minor features (geoip data):
1689 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1690 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1692 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1693 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1694 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1696 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1697 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
1698 for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
1700 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1701 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1702 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1704 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1705 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
1706 order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
1707 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1709 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1710 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1711 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1712 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1713 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1714 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1715 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1718 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1719 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1720 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1721 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1722 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1724 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1725 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1726 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1727 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1728 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1729 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1730 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1733 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1734 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1736 o Minor features (geoip data):
1737 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1738 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1740 o Minor features (testing):
1741 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
1742 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1744 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1745 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1746 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1748 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1749 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1750 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1752 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1753 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1754 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1755 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1756 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1757 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1758 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1760 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1761 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
1762 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1765 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1766 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1767 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1768 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1769 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1771 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1772 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1773 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1774 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1775 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1776 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1777 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1780 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1781 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1783 o Minor features (geoip data):
1784 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1785 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1787 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1788 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1789 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1791 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1792 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1793 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1796 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1797 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1798 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1799 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1800 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1802 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1803 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1804 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1805 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1806 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1807 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1809 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1810 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1811 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1815 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
1816 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
1817 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
1818 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
1819 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
1822 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
1823 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
1824 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
1825 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1827 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
1828 0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1830 o Major bugfixes (security):
1831 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1832 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1833 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1834 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1835 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1836 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1838 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
1839 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1840 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1841 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1842 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1843 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1844 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1845 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1847 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1848 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1849 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1850 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1851 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1852 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1853 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1854 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1855 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1856 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1857 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1858 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1859 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1860 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1861 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1863 o Major features (control port, onion services):
1864 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
1865 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
1866 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
1869 o Major features (directory authority):
1870 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
1871 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
1872 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
1873 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1875 o Major features (metrics):
1876 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
1877 documents. This information is controlled with the
1878 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
1879 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
1880 328; closes ticket 40222.
1882 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
1883 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
1884 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
1886 o Major features (statistics):
1887 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
1888 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
1889 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
1891 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
1892 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
1893 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
1894 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
1895 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
1896 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
1897 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
1898 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
1899 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
1900 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
1901 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
1902 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
1903 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
1904 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
1905 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
1906 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
1907 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1908 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
1909 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
1910 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
1913 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
1914 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
1915 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
1916 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1918 o Minor features (bridge):
1919 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1920 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1921 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1923 o Minor features (build system):
1924 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
1925 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
1926 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1928 o Minor features (client):
1929 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
1930 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
1931 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
1932 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
1934 o Minor features (command line):
1935 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
1936 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
1939 o Minor features (command-line interface):
1940 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
1941 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
1942 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
1943 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
1944 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
1945 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
1946 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
1947 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
1948 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
1949 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1951 o Minor features (compatibility):
1952 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1953 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1954 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1957 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
1958 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
1959 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1961 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1962 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
1963 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
1964 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1965 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
1966 control over whether the client can become dormant from
1967 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1969 o Minor features (geoip data):
1970 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1971 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1973 o Minor features (logging):
1974 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
1975 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
1977 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
1978 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
1979 any). Closes ticket 40308.
1980 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
1981 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
1982 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1984 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
1985 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1986 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1987 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1988 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1990 o Minor features (onion services):
1991 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
1992 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
1994 o Minor features (performance, windows):
1995 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
1996 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
1997 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
1998 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2000 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2001 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
2002 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
2004 o Minor features (tests, portability):
2005 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
2006 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
2009 o Minor features (vote document):
2010 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
2011 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
2012 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
2014 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2015 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
2016 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
2017 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2019 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
2020 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
2021 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
2022 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
2025 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2026 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
2027 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
2028 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2030 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
2031 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
2032 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
2033 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
2034 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2036 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
2037 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2038 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2039 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2040 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2041 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2044 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
2045 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
2046 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
2047 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
2048 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
2049 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
2051 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2052 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
2053 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
2054 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
2055 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2057 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
2058 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
2059 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
2060 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
2061 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2063 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
2064 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
2065 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2067 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2068 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2069 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2072 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
2073 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
2074 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
2075 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2077 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2078 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
2079 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
2080 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2082 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
2083 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2084 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2087 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2088 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
2089 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
2090 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2093 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
2094 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
2095 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
2096 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
2097 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
2098 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
2099 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
2100 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
2101 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
2102 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
2105 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
2106 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
2107 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
2109 o Documentation (manual):
2110 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
2112 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
2113 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
2114 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
2115 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
2117 o Removed features (relay):
2118 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
2119 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
2120 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
2121 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
2122 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
2125 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
2126 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2127 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2128 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2129 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2131 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2132 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2133 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2134 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2135 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2136 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2137 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2139 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2140 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2141 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2142 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2143 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2144 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2145 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2146 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2148 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2149 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2150 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2151 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2152 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2153 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2154 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2155 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2156 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2157 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2158 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2159 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2160 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2161 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2162 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2164 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2165 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2166 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2167 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2170 o Minor features (geoip data):
2171 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2172 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2174 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2175 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2176 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2177 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2178 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2179 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2182 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2183 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2184 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2188 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
2189 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2190 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2191 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2192 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2194 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
2195 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
2196 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
2198 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2199 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2200 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2201 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2202 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2203 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2204 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2206 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2207 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2208 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2209 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2210 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2211 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2212 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2213 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2215 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2216 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2217 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2218 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2219 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2220 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2221 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2222 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2223 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2224 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2225 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2226 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2227 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2228 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2229 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2231 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2232 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2233 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2234 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2237 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2238 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2239 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2241 o Minor features (geoip data):
2242 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2243 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2245 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2246 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2247 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2248 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2250 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2251 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2252 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2255 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
2256 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
2257 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2258 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2259 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2261 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2262 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2263 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2264 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2265 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2266 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2267 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2269 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2270 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2271 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2272 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2273 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2274 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2275 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2276 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2278 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2279 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2280 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2281 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2282 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2283 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2284 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2285 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2286 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2287 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2288 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2289 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2290 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2291 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2292 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2294 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2295 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2296 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2298 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2299 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2300 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2301 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2304 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2305 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2306 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2308 o Minor features (geoip data):
2309 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2310 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2313 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
2314 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
2315 from the 0.4.6.x series.
2317 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2318 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2319 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2320 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2321 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2323 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2324 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2325 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2327 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2328 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2329 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2331 o Minor features (geoip data):
2332 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2333 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2335 o Minor features (onion services):
2336 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
2337 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
2338 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
2340 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2341 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2342 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2343 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2345 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2346 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2347 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2348 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2350 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2351 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2352 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2353 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2355 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2356 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2357 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2359 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
2360 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2361 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2362 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2364 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2365 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2366 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2367 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2369 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2370 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2371 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2375 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
2376 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2377 in earlier versions of Tor.
2379 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2380 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2381 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2382 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2383 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2384 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2385 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2386 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2387 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2390 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2391 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2394 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2395 compatibility issue.
2397 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2398 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2399 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2400 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2401 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2402 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2403 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2404 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2405 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2408 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2409 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2410 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2411 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2412 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2413 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2414 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2415 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2418 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2419 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2420 Closes ticket 40309.
2423 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
2424 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2425 in earlier versions of Tor.
2427 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2428 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2429 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2430 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2431 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2432 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2433 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2434 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2435 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2438 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2439 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2442 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2443 compatibility issue.
2445 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2446 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2447 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2448 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2449 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2450 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2451 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2452 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2453 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2456 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2457 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2458 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2459 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2460 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2461 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2462 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2463 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2466 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2467 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2468 Closes ticket 40309.
2471 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2472 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2475 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2476 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2477 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2478 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2479 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2480 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2481 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2482 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2483 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2486 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2487 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2490 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2491 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2493 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2494 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2495 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2496 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2497 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2498 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2499 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2500 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2501 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2504 o Minor features (geoip data):
2505 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2506 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2507 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2508 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2509 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2510 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2511 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2514 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2515 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2516 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2517 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2518 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2520 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2521 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2522 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2524 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2525 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2526 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2527 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2528 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2530 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2531 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2532 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2534 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2535 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2536 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2538 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2539 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2540 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2542 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2543 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2544 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2545 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2546 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2547 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2548 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2549 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2551 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2552 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2553 Closes ticket 40309.
2556 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2557 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2558 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2559 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2560 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2561 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2562 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2563 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2564 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2565 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2567 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2568 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2569 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2570 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2571 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2572 smaller features and bugfixes.
2574 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
2575 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2577 o Major features (build):
2578 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
2579 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
2580 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
2581 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
2582 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
2584 o Major features (metrics):
2585 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
2586 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
2587 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
2588 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
2589 information and security considerations.
2591 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
2592 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
2593 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
2594 Closes ticket 33233.
2595 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
2596 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
2597 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
2598 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
2599 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
2600 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
2601 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
2602 use. Closes ticket 33220.
2603 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
2604 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
2605 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
2606 Closes ticket 34067.
2608 o Major features (tracing):
2609 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
2610 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
2611 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
2612 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
2613 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
2615 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
2616 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
2617 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
2618 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
2619 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2621 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
2622 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
2623 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
2624 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
2625 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
2626 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
2627 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2629 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
2630 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
2631 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
2632 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
2633 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
2634 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
2636 o Minor features (address discovery):
2637 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
2638 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
2639 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
2640 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
2642 o Minor features (admin tools):
2643 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
2644 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
2645 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
2648 o Minor features (authority, logging):
2649 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
2650 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
2651 Closes ticket 40245.
2653 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2654 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
2655 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
2656 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
2657 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
2658 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
2660 o Minor features (build):
2661 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
2662 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
2663 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
2664 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
2665 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
2667 o Minor features (configuration):
2668 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
2669 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2670 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
2671 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
2672 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
2673 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2675 o Minor features (control port):
2676 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
2677 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
2678 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
2679 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
2681 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
2682 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
2683 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
2686 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
2687 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
2688 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
2689 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
2690 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
2691 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
2692 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2694 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2695 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
2696 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
2698 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2699 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
2700 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2701 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
2702 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
2703 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
2704 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
2705 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
2706 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
2707 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
2708 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
2710 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
2711 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
2712 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
2713 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
2715 o Minor features (documentation):
2716 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
2717 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
2718 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
2720 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
2721 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
2722 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
2723 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2725 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2726 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
2727 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
2729 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
2730 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
2731 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2733 o Minor features (logging):
2734 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
2735 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
2736 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
2737 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
2738 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
2739 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
2741 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
2742 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
2743 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
2744 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
2746 o Minor features (onion services):
2747 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
2748 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
2749 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2751 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2752 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
2753 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
2754 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
2755 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
2756 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
2758 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2759 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
2760 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
2761 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
2762 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
2764 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
2765 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
2766 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
2767 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
2768 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
2769 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
2770 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
2772 o Minor features (relay):
2773 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
2774 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
2775 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
2776 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
2777 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
2778 Closes ticket 34137.
2780 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
2781 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
2782 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
2785 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
2786 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
2787 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
2788 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
2789 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
2790 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
2791 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
2792 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
2793 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
2795 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
2796 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
2798 o Minor features (safety):
2799 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
2800 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
2803 o Minor features (specification update):
2804 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
2805 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
2806 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
2808 o Minor features (state management):
2809 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
2810 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
2811 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
2812 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
2813 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
2815 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
2816 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
2817 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
2818 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
2819 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
2821 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
2822 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
2823 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
2825 o Minor features (testing configuration):
2826 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
2827 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
2828 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
2829 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
2831 o Minor features (testing):
2832 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
2833 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2835 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2836 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
2837 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
2838 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
2840 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
2841 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
2842 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2843 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
2844 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
2845 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
2846 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
2847 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
2848 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2850 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
2851 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
2852 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
2853 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
2854 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
2855 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2857 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2858 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2859 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2860 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2861 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
2862 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
2865 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2866 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
2867 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
2868 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
2869 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
2870 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
2873 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2874 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
2875 when a stream is attached with the purpose
2876 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
2877 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2879 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
2880 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
2881 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
2882 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2884 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2885 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2886 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2887 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2888 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2889 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2890 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
2891 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
2893 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
2894 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
2895 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2896 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
2897 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
2898 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
2899 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
2900 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
2903 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2904 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
2905 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
2906 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2908 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
2909 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
2910 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
2911 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2912 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
2913 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
2914 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2916 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
2917 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
2918 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
2919 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
2920 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
2921 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2923 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
2924 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
2925 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2927 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
2928 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
2929 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2930 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
2931 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
2932 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
2933 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
2934 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2936 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2937 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
2938 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
2939 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
2940 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
2941 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
2942 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
2943 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
2944 Closes ticket 34200.
2945 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
2946 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
2947 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
2948 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
2949 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
2950 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
2951 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
2953 - Split implementation of several command line options from
2954 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
2955 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
2956 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
2957 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
2958 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
2961 o Deprecated features:
2962 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
2963 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
2964 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
2967 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
2968 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
2971 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
2972 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
2973 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
2974 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
2976 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
2977 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
2979 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
2980 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
2981 directory. Closes part of 40139.
2982 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
2983 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
2987 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
2988 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2990 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
2991 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
2992 31699; Patch by @bduszel
2994 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
2995 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
2996 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
2997 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
2998 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
3000 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
3001 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
3002 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
3003 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
3004 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
3006 o Documentation (manual page):
3007 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
3008 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
3009 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
3010 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
3012 o Documentation (tracing):
3013 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
3014 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
3016 o Removed features (controller):
3017 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
3018 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
3021 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
3022 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3023 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3024 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3025 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3027 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3028 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3029 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3030 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3031 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3034 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3035 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3036 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3037 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3040 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3041 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3042 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3043 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3045 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3046 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3047 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3048 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3049 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3051 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3052 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3053 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3054 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3055 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3056 weasel for diagnosing this.
3058 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3059 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3060 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3061 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3062 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3063 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3064 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3066 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3067 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3068 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3069 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3071 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3072 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3073 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3074 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3076 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3077 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3078 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3079 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3080 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3081 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3082 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3084 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3085 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3088 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
3089 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3090 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3091 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3092 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3094 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
3095 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
3097 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3098 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3099 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3100 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3101 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3104 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3105 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3106 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3107 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3108 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3110 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3111 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3112 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3113 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3116 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3117 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3118 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3119 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3121 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3122 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3123 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3124 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3125 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3127 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3128 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3129 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3130 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3131 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3132 weasel for diagnosing this.
3134 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3135 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3136 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3137 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3138 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3139 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3140 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3142 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3143 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3144 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3146 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3147 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3148 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3149 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3151 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3152 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3153 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3154 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3156 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3157 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3158 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3159 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3160 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3161 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3162 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3164 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3165 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3168 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
3169 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3170 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3171 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3172 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3174 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3175 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3176 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3177 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3178 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3181 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3182 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3183 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3184 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3185 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3187 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3188 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3189 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3190 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3193 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3194 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3195 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3196 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3198 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3199 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3200 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3201 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3202 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3204 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3205 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3206 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3207 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3208 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3209 weasel for diagnosing this.
3211 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3212 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3213 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3214 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3215 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3216 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3217 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3219 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3220 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3221 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3223 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3224 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3225 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3226 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3228 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3229 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3230 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3231 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3233 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3234 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3235 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3236 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3238 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3239 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3242 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
3243 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
3244 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3245 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
3246 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
3247 intended for a different relay.
3249 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3250 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3251 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3252 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3253 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3254 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3255 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3257 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3258 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3259 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3260 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3261 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3262 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3263 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3264 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3265 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3266 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3267 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3269 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3270 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3271 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3272 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3273 closes ticket 40133.
3275 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3276 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3277 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3279 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3280 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3281 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3283 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3284 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3285 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3286 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3287 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3288 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3290 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3291 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3292 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3294 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3295 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3296 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3299 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3300 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3301 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3302 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3305 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
3306 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3307 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3308 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3309 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3311 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
3312 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
3313 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
3316 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3317 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3318 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3319 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3321 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3322 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3323 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3324 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3325 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3326 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3327 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3329 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3330 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3331 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3332 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3333 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3336 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3337 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3338 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3339 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3340 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3341 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3343 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3344 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3345 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3346 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3347 closes ticket 40133.
3349 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3350 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3351 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3352 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3354 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3355 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3356 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3358 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3359 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3360 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3362 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3363 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3364 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3365 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3366 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3368 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3369 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3370 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3372 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3373 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3374 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3375 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3376 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3377 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3378 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3380 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3381 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3382 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3385 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3386 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3387 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3388 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3389 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3390 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3393 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3394 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3395 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3396 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3398 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3399 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3400 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3401 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3403 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3404 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3405 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3407 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3408 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3411 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3412 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3413 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3414 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3415 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3416 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3417 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
3420 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
3421 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3422 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3423 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3424 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3426 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3427 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3428 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3429 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3431 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3432 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3433 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3434 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3435 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3436 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3437 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3439 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3440 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3441 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3442 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3443 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3446 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3447 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3448 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3449 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3450 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3451 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3453 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3454 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3455 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3456 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3458 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3459 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3460 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3461 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3462 closes ticket 40133.
3464 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3465 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3466 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3467 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3469 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3470 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3471 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3473 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3474 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3475 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3477 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3478 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3479 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3480 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3481 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3483 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3484 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3485 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3487 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3488 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3489 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3490 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3491 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3492 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3493 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3495 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3496 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3497 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3500 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3501 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3502 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3503 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3504 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3505 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3508 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3509 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3510 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3511 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3513 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3514 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3515 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3516 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3518 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3519 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3520 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3522 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3523 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3526 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3527 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3528 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3529 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3530 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3531 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3532 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3534 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3535 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3536 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3537 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3538 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3540 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3541 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3542 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3544 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
3545 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3547 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
3548 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
3549 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
3550 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
3551 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
3552 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
3553 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
3554 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
3555 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
3556 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
3558 o Major features (fallback directory list):
3559 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3560 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3561 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3563 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
3564 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
3565 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
3566 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
3567 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
3568 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
3569 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
3571 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
3573 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
3574 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
3575 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
3576 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
3578 o Major features (v3 onion services):
3579 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
3580 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
3581 Closes ticket 32709.
3583 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
3584 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3585 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3586 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3587 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3590 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3591 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3592 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3593 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3594 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3595 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3597 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3598 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3599 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3600 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3601 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3603 o Minor features (security):
3604 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3605 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3606 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3607 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3608 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3610 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3611 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
3612 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
3613 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
3614 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
3617 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
3618 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
3619 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
3620 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
3621 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
3622 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
3623 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
3625 o Minor features (code safety):
3626 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
3627 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
3628 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
3629 Resolves issue 33788.
3631 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3632 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
3633 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
3634 Resolves ticket 32143.
3636 o Minor features (control port):
3637 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3638 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3639 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3640 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
3641 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
3642 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
3643 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3645 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3646 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
3647 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
3649 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3650 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3651 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3652 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3653 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
3654 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
3656 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3657 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
3658 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
3659 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
3660 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
3661 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
3662 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
3663 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
3665 o Minor features (directory authority):
3666 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
3667 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
3668 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
3669 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
3670 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
3672 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
3673 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
3674 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
3675 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
3677 o Minor features (directory):
3678 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
3679 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
3680 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
3683 o Minor features (entry guards):
3684 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
3685 Closes ticket 40001.
3687 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
3688 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
3689 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
3691 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
3692 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
3693 Closes ticket 33901.
3695 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
3696 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
3697 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
3698 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
3699 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
3700 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
3701 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
3703 o Minor features (logging):
3704 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
3705 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
3707 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
3708 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
3709 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
3710 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
3713 o Minor features (onion service v3):
3714 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
3715 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3717 o Minor features (python scripts):
3718 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
3719 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
3720 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
3721 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
3723 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
3724 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
3725 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
3726 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
3727 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
3728 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
3729 up from ticket 33316.
3730 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3731 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3732 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3734 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
3735 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
3736 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
3737 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3739 o Minor features (windows):
3740 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
3741 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
3743 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
3744 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
3745 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
3746 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3748 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
3749 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3750 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3751 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3752 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3754 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3755 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
3756 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
3757 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
3758 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
3759 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3761 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3762 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
3763 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
3764 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3766 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
3767 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
3768 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
3769 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
3770 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3772 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
3773 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
3774 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3776 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
3777 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
3778 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
3779 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
3780 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
3781 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3782 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
3783 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
3784 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
3785 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3787 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3788 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3789 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3790 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3791 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3793 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3794 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3795 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3796 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
3799 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
3800 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
3801 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
3802 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
3803 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3804 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
3805 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3807 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
3808 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
3809 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3811 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
3812 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
3813 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3815 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
3816 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
3817 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3819 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3820 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
3821 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
3824 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
3825 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
3826 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
3829 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
3830 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3831 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3832 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3833 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3834 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3835 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3837 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
3838 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
3839 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
3840 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
3842 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
3843 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
3844 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
3845 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
3846 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
3849 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
3850 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3851 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3852 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3853 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3854 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3857 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
3858 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
3859 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
3862 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3863 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3864 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3865 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3867 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3868 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
3869 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3870 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
3871 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3874 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
3875 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3876 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3878 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3879 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
3880 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
3881 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
3882 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3883 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
3884 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
3885 isolated in subsystems of their own.
3886 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
3887 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
3888 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
3889 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
3891 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
3892 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3893 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
3894 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
3896 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
3897 code. Closes ticket 33014.
3898 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
3899 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
3902 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
3903 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
3904 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
3905 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
3906 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
3907 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3910 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3911 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3912 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3913 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3914 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3915 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
3916 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
3917 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
3918 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
3919 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
3920 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3921 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
3922 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
3925 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
3926 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
3927 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
3928 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
3929 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
3930 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3931 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
3932 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
3934 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
3935 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3937 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3938 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3939 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3940 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
3941 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
3942 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
3943 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
3944 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
3945 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
3946 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
3947 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3948 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3950 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
3951 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3954 o Documentation (manual page):
3955 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
3956 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3957 Google Season of Docs.
3958 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
3959 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
3960 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
3961 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3962 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
3963 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
3964 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
3965 Closes ticket 33778.
3968 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
3969 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
3970 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
3972 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3973 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3974 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3975 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3976 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3977 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3978 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3981 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3982 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3983 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3984 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3987 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3988 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3989 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3990 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3991 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3992 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3994 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3995 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3996 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3997 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3998 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3999 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4001 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4002 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4003 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4005 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4006 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4007 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4008 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4011 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4012 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4013 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4014 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4017 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4018 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4019 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4020 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4021 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4023 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4024 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4025 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4027 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4028 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4029 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4030 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4031 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4034 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4035 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4036 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4037 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4038 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4039 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4041 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4042 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4043 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4044 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4046 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4047 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4048 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4049 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4052 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4053 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4054 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4055 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4056 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4057 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4058 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4059 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4063 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
4064 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
4065 several that affect usability and portability.
4067 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4068 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4069 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4070 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4071 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4072 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4073 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4076 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4077 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4078 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4079 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4082 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4083 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4084 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4085 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4086 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4087 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4089 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
4090 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4091 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4092 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4093 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4095 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4096 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4097 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4098 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4100 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4101 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4102 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4103 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4104 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4105 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4107 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4108 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4109 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4111 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4112 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4113 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4114 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4117 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4118 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4119 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4120 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4123 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4124 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4125 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4126 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4127 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4128 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4131 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4132 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4133 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4135 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4136 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4137 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4138 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4140 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4141 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4142 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4143 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4144 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4147 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4148 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4149 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4150 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4151 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4152 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4154 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
4155 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4156 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4157 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4158 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4160 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4161 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4162 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4163 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4165 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4166 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4167 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4168 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4170 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4171 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4172 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4173 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4176 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4177 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4178 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4179 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4180 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4181 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4182 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4183 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4187 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
4188 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
4189 some affecting usability.
4191 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4192 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4193 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4194 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4195 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4196 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4197 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4200 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4201 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4202 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4203 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4206 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4207 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4208 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4210 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4211 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4212 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4213 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4216 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4217 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4218 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4220 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4221 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4222 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4223 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4225 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4226 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4227 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4228 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4230 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4231 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4232 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4234 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4235 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4236 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4237 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4238 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4240 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4241 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4242 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4244 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4245 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4246 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4247 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4249 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4250 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4254 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
4255 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
4256 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4257 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
4258 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
4259 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
4262 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4263 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4264 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4265 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
4266 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
4268 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
4269 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
4270 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
4273 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
4274 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4276 o New system requirements:
4277 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
4278 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
4279 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
4281 o Major features (build system):
4282 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
4283 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
4284 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
4285 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
4286 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
4288 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
4289 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
4290 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
4291 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
4292 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4294 o Major features (onion services):
4295 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
4296 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
4297 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
4298 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
4299 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
4300 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
4301 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
4303 o Major features (proxy):
4304 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
4305 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
4306 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
4307 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
4308 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
4309 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
4311 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
4312 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4313 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4314 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4315 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4316 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4317 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4318 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4319 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4321 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
4322 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4323 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4324 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4325 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4327 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4328 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4329 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4330 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4331 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4333 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
4334 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4335 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4336 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4337 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4338 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4340 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4341 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
4342 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
4343 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4345 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
4346 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
4347 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
4348 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
4349 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
4350 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4352 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
4353 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
4354 message. Closes ticket 31371.
4356 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
4357 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4358 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4359 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4360 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4362 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4363 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
4364 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
4365 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
4367 o Minor features (configuration validation):
4368 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
4369 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
4370 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
4371 Closes ticket 31241.
4373 o Minor features (configuration):
4374 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
4375 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
4377 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
4378 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
4379 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
4380 Implements ticket 32404.
4382 o Minor features (configure, build system):
4383 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
4384 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
4386 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4387 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
4388 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
4389 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4390 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4391 Closes ticket 33075.
4393 o Minor features (controller):
4394 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
4395 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
4396 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
4398 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
4399 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
4400 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
4401 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
4403 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4404 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
4405 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
4408 o Minor features (developer tools):
4409 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
4410 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
4411 Closes ticket 32772.
4412 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
4413 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
4414 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
4415 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
4416 target. Closes ticket 31919.
4417 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
4418 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
4419 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
4421 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
4422 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
4423 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
4424 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
4426 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4427 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4428 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4429 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4431 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4432 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4433 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4434 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4436 o Minor features (Doxygen):
4437 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
4438 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
4439 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
4441 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
4442 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
4443 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
4444 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
4445 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
4446 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
4447 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
4448 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
4450 o Minor features (git scripts):
4451 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
4452 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
4453 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
4454 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
4455 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
4456 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
4457 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
4458 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
4459 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
4460 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
4461 Closes ticket 32216.
4462 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
4463 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
4464 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
4465 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
4467 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
4468 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
4469 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
4470 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
4471 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
4472 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
4474 o Minor features (portability, android):
4475 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
4476 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
4477 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4479 o Minor features (relay modularity):
4480 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
4481 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
4482 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4483 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4484 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
4485 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
4486 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4487 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
4488 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
4490 o Minor features (release tools):
4491 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
4492 Closes ticket 32704.
4494 o Minor features (testing):
4495 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4496 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4497 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4498 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4499 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4500 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
4501 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
4502 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
4503 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
4504 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
4505 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
4507 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
4508 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
4509 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4511 o Minor features (usability):
4512 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4513 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4514 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4516 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4517 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4518 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4519 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4522 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
4523 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4524 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4526 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4527 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
4528 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4530 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4531 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4532 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4533 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4534 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4535 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4538 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
4539 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
4540 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
4541 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4542 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
4543 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4544 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
4545 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
4546 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
4547 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
4548 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
4549 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
4550 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
4551 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4552 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
4553 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
4554 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
4555 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4557 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4558 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4561 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4562 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4563 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4564 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4566 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4567 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
4568 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
4571 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
4572 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
4573 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4575 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
4576 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
4577 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
4578 Closes ticket 32213.
4579 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4580 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
4581 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4583 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4584 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4585 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4586 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4587 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4590 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4591 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
4593 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
4594 Closes ticket 32216.
4596 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4597 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4598 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4599 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4600 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4601 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4603 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4604 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4605 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4606 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4607 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4608 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4609 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
4610 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
4612 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4613 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4614 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4615 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4617 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4618 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4619 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4620 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4622 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
4623 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
4624 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
4625 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4626 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
4627 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
4628 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
4629 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
4632 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4633 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4634 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4635 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4637 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
4638 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
4639 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
4640 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4641 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4642 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4643 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4645 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
4646 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
4647 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
4648 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
4649 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4651 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4652 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
4653 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
4654 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
4657 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
4658 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
4659 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
4660 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
4661 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4663 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4664 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
4665 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
4666 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4668 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
4669 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4670 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4671 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4673 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
4674 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
4675 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4677 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4678 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
4679 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
4680 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
4682 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
4683 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4684 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
4685 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
4686 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
4687 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
4688 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4690 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
4691 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
4692 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
4693 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
4694 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
4696 o Deprecated features:
4697 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
4698 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
4699 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
4703 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
4704 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
4705 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
4706 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
4707 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
4708 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
4709 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
4710 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
4712 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
4713 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
4716 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
4717 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
4718 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
4719 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
4720 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
4721 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
4723 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
4724 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
4725 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
4726 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
4727 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
4730 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
4731 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
4732 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
4733 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
4734 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4736 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
4737 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
4739 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
4740 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
4741 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
4742 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
4743 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
4746 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
4747 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
4748 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
4750 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
4751 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
4752 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
4753 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
4754 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
4755 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
4756 Solves part of ticket 32339.
4757 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
4758 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
4759 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
4760 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
4761 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
4762 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
4763 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
4764 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
4765 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
4766 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
4768 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
4769 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
4771 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
4772 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
4773 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
4775 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4776 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
4777 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
4778 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
4779 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
4780 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
4782 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
4783 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
4784 Closes ticket 32163.
4785 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
4787 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
4789 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
4790 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
4791 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
4793 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4794 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
4795 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
4796 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
4797 Closes ticket 32304.
4798 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
4799 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
4800 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
4801 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
4802 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
4805 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
4806 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4808 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4811 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
4812 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
4813 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
4814 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4815 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
4816 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
4817 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
4818 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4820 o Documentation (manpage):
4821 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4822 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4823 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4824 Google Season of Docs.
4825 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4826 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4827 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
4828 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
4829 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4830 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4832 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4834 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
4835 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
4836 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
4838 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
4839 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
4840 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4842 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
4843 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4844 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4845 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4846 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4847 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4848 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4849 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4852 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
4853 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
4856 o Testing (Travis CI):
4857 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4858 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4859 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4861 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4862 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4863 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4864 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4865 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4868 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4869 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4870 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4871 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4872 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4873 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4874 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4875 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4876 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4877 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4878 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4879 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4881 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4882 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4883 as soon as packages are available.
4885 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4886 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4887 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4888 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4889 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4890 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4891 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4892 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4893 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4895 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4896 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4897 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4898 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4899 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4901 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4902 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4903 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4904 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4905 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4907 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4908 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4909 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4910 Closes ticket 33075.
4912 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4913 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4914 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4916 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4917 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4918 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4919 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4920 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4923 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4924 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4925 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4926 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4929 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4930 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4931 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4932 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4934 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4935 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4936 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4937 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4939 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4940 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4941 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4942 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4943 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4946 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
4947 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
4948 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
4949 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
4950 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
4951 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
4952 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
4953 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
4954 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
4955 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
4956 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
4957 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4959 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4960 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4961 as soon as packages are available.
4963 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4964 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4965 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4966 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4967 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4968 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4969 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4970 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4971 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4973 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4974 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4975 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4976 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4977 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4979 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4980 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4981 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4983 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4984 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4985 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4986 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4987 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4990 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4991 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4992 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4993 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4996 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4997 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4998 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4999 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5001 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5002 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5003 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5004 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5006 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5007 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5008 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5009 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5010 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5013 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
5014 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
5015 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
5016 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
5017 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
5018 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
5019 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
5020 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
5021 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
5022 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
5023 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
5026 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5027 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5028 as soon as packages are available.
5030 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5031 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5032 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5033 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5034 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5035 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5036 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5037 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5038 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5040 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5041 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5042 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5043 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5044 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
5045 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5046 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5047 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5050 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5051 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5052 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5053 Closes ticket 33075.
5055 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5056 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5057 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5059 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5060 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5061 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5062 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5063 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5065 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5066 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5067 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5068 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5069 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5072 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5073 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5074 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5075 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5078 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5079 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5080 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5081 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5083 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5084 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5085 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5086 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5087 Closes ticket 32629.
5088 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5089 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5090 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5092 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5093 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5095 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5096 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5097 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5098 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5100 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5101 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5102 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5103 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5106 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
5107 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
5108 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
5109 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
5110 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
5111 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
5113 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5114 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5115 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5116 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5117 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5118 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5119 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5120 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5122 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5123 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5124 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5126 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5127 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5128 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5129 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5131 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5132 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5133 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5134 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5136 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5137 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5138 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5139 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5140 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5141 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5144 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5145 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5146 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5148 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5149 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5150 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5151 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5152 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5153 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5154 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5155 Closes ticket 32629.
5157 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5158 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5161 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
5162 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
5163 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
5164 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
5165 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
5166 current version of 0.4.1.x.
5168 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5169 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5170 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5171 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5172 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5173 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5174 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5175 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5177 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5178 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5179 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5181 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
5182 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5183 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5184 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5185 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5187 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5188 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5189 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5191 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5192 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5193 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5194 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5195 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5196 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5197 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5198 Closes ticket 32629.
5200 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5201 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5204 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
5205 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
5206 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
5207 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
5208 bugs present in previous series.
5210 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5211 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5212 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5213 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5215 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
5216 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5218 o Major features (directory authorities):
5219 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5220 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5221 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5223 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
5224 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
5225 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
5226 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
5227 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
5228 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
5231 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5232 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5233 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
5234 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
5235 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
5236 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
5239 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
5240 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5241 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5242 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5243 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5244 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5245 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5246 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5247 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5249 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5250 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5251 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5252 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5254 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5255 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5256 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5257 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5258 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5259 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5260 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5261 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5263 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
5264 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5265 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5266 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5267 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5269 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5270 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5271 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5272 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5273 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5276 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
5277 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
5278 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
5279 Closes ticket 29669.
5281 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
5282 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
5283 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
5284 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
5285 Closes ticket 31779.
5287 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5288 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
5289 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
5290 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
5291 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
5292 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
5293 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
5294 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
5295 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
5296 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
5297 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
5298 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
5299 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
5300 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
5301 files. Closes ticket 31175.
5303 o Minor features (build system):
5304 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
5305 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
5306 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
5307 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
5308 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
5310 o Minor features (compilation):
5311 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
5312 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
5313 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
5315 o Minor features (configuration):
5316 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
5317 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
5318 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
5319 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
5321 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5322 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5323 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5324 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5325 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
5326 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
5327 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
5329 o Minor features (debugging):
5330 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
5331 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
5332 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
5333 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
5335 o Minor features (geoip):
5336 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5337 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5339 o Minor features (git hooks):
5340 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
5341 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
5342 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
5343 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
5344 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
5346 o Minor features (git scripts):
5347 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
5348 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
5349 push. Closes ticket 31314.
5350 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
5351 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
5352 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
5353 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
5354 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
5355 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
5356 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
5357 Closes ticket 31314.
5358 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
5359 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
5360 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
5361 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
5362 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
5363 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
5364 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
5365 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
5366 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
5368 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
5369 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
5370 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
5373 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
5374 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
5375 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
5377 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
5378 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
5379 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
5380 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
5381 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
5382 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
5383 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
5385 o Minor features (onion service v3):
5386 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
5387 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
5389 o Minor features (onion service):
5390 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
5391 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
5392 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
5393 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
5395 o Minor features (onion services v3):
5396 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
5397 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
5400 o Minor features (stem tests):
5401 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5402 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5405 o Minor features (testing):
5406 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
5407 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
5408 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
5409 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
5410 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
5411 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
5412 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
5413 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
5414 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
5415 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
5416 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
5417 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
5418 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
5419 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
5420 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
5422 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
5423 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5424 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5425 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5427 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5428 Closes ticket 31859.
5429 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5430 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5432 o Minor features (token bucket):
5433 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
5434 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
5436 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
5437 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
5438 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5440 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
5441 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
5442 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
5443 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5444 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
5445 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
5446 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
5447 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
5450 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5451 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
5452 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5453 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
5455 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
5456 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5457 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
5458 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
5459 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5460 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5461 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5463 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
5464 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
5465 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
5466 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
5467 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
5468 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
5470 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
5471 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5472 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5473 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5474 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5475 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5477 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5478 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
5479 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5481 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5482 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5483 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5484 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5485 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5487 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5488 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5489 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5491 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5492 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
5493 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
5494 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
5496 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
5497 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5498 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5499 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5501 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5502 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5503 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
5504 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5506 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
5507 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
5508 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
5509 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
5510 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
5511 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
5512 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
5513 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
5514 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
5515 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5517 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
5518 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5519 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5520 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5521 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5523 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5524 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
5525 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
5528 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5529 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
5530 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5532 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
5533 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
5534 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5535 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5536 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5537 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5538 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5539 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5540 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5541 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5542 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5543 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5546 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
5547 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5548 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5549 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5552 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
5553 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
5554 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
5555 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5557 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5558 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
5559 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
5560 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5561 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
5562 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5563 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
5564 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
5565 Closes ticket 31678.
5567 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5568 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5569 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5570 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5571 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5573 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5574 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
5575 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
5576 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
5577 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5578 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
5579 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
5580 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
5581 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
5584 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5585 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5586 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5587 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5588 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5589 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5590 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5591 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5592 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5593 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
5594 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5595 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5596 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5598 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
5599 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
5600 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
5602 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
5603 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5604 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5605 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5607 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
5608 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5609 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5610 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5611 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5614 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5615 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
5616 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
5619 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
5620 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
5621 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
5624 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
5625 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5626 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5628 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
5629 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
5630 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
5631 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
5632 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
5633 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5635 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
5636 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
5637 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
5638 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5641 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5642 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
5643 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
5644 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
5645 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5647 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5648 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
5649 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
5650 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
5651 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
5652 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5654 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
5655 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
5656 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
5657 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5659 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
5660 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5661 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5663 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5664 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5665 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5667 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5668 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5669 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5670 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5672 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5673 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5674 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5675 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
5676 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5678 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
5679 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
5680 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
5681 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5683 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
5684 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
5685 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
5686 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
5687 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5689 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
5690 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
5691 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
5692 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
5693 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
5696 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5697 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
5698 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
5700 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5701 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5702 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5703 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5704 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
5705 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
5708 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
5709 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5710 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5712 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
5713 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5714 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5717 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
5718 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5719 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5720 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5721 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5722 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5724 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5725 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
5726 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
5727 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
5728 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5730 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
5731 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5732 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5733 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5734 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5735 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5736 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5737 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5738 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5739 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5741 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5742 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
5743 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
5744 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
5745 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
5746 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
5747 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
5749 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
5753 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
5754 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5755 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
5756 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
5757 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
5758 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
5759 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
5760 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
5762 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5763 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5764 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
5765 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
5766 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
5767 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
5768 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
5769 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
5770 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
5771 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
5772 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5773 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5774 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5777 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
5778 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
5779 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
5780 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
5781 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
5782 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
5784 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
5788 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5789 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5790 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5791 Closes ticket 32500.
5792 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
5793 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
5794 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
5795 Closes ticket 30967.
5797 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
5798 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
5799 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
5800 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
5801 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
5802 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
5803 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
5804 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
5805 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
5806 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
5807 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
5808 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
5809 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
5810 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
5811 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
5812 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
5814 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5815 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
5816 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
5817 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
5818 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
5819 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
5820 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
5821 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
5822 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
5823 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
5825 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
5826 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
5827 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
5829 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
5830 Closes ticket 30806.
5831 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
5832 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
5835 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
5836 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
5837 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
5839 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
5840 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
5841 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5843 o Testing (continuous integration):
5844 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5845 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5846 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5847 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5848 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5849 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5850 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5851 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5852 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5855 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5856 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5857 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5858 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5860 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5861 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5862 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5863 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5865 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5866 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5867 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5868 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5870 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5871 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5872 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5873 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5874 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5875 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5876 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5877 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5879 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5880 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5881 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5882 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5883 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5885 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5886 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5887 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5888 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5889 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5892 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5893 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5894 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5895 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5897 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5898 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5899 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5901 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5902 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5903 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5905 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5906 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5907 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5908 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5909 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5910 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5912 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5913 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5914 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5915 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5917 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5918 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5919 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5920 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5921 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5922 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5923 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5924 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5925 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5926 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5929 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5930 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5931 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5932 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5933 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5934 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5935 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5936 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5937 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5939 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5940 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5941 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5942 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5944 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5945 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5946 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5947 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5948 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5951 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5952 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5953 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5955 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5956 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5957 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5959 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5960 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5961 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5963 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5964 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5965 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5966 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5968 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5969 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5970 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5971 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5972 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5974 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5975 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5976 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5978 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5979 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5980 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5983 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5984 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5985 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5987 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5988 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5989 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5990 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5992 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5993 Closes ticket 31859.
5994 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5995 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5997 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5998 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5999 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6000 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6001 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6002 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6003 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6004 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6005 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6006 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6008 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6009 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6010 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6011 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6012 Closes ticket 32500.
6015 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
6016 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
6017 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
6018 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
6019 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
6021 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
6022 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
6023 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
6024 support until 1 Feb 2022.
6026 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6027 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6030 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6031 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6032 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6033 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6034 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6035 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6036 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6037 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6038 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6039 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6040 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6042 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6043 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6044 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6045 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6046 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6047 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6049 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6050 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6051 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6052 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6053 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6056 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6057 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6058 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6059 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6060 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6062 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6063 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6064 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6065 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6068 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6069 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6070 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6071 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6072 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6073 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6074 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6075 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6077 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6078 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6079 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6080 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6081 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6083 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6084 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6085 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6086 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6087 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6090 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6091 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6092 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6094 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6095 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6096 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6099 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6100 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6101 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6103 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6104 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6105 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6106 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6108 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6109 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6110 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6111 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6112 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6114 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6115 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6116 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
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 (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6124 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6125 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6127 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6128 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6129 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6131 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6132 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6133 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6135 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6136 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6137 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6140 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6141 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6142 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6143 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6144 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6145 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6147 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6148 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6149 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6150 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6151 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6153 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6154 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6155 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6158 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6159 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6160 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6162 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6163 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6164 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6165 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6167 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6168 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6169 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6170 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6172 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6173 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6174 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6175 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6177 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6178 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6179 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6180 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6182 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6183 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6184 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6185 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6186 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6187 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6188 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6190 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6191 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6192 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6193 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6195 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6196 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6197 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6198 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6200 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6201 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6202 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6205 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6206 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6207 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6208 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6209 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6210 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6211 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6213 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6214 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6215 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6216 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6219 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6220 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6221 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6222 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6223 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6225 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6226 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6227 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6228 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6229 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6231 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6232 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6233 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6236 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6237 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6238 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6239 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6240 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6242 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6243 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6244 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6245 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6247 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6248 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6249 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6250 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6251 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6254 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6255 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6256 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6259 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6260 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6261 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6262 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6264 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6265 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6266 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6267 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6269 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6270 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6271 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6272 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6274 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6275 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6276 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6277 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6280 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6281 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6282 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6283 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6284 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6285 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6288 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6289 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6290 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6292 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6293 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6294 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6296 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6297 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6298 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6299 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6301 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6302 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6303 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6305 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6306 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6307 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6308 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6309 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6311 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6312 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6313 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6316 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6317 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6318 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6319 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6320 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6321 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6322 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6323 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6324 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6325 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6327 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6328 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6329 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6330 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6332 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6333 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6334 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6335 Resolves issue 29702.
6337 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6338 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6340 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6341 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6342 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6343 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6346 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6347 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6348 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6349 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6351 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6352 Closes ticket 31859.
6353 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6354 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6356 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6357 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6358 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6359 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6360 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6361 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6362 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6363 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6364 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6365 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6367 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6368 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6369 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6370 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6371 Closes ticket 32500.
6374 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
6375 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
6376 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
6379 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6380 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6383 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6384 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6385 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6386 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6387 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6388 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6389 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6390 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6391 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6392 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6393 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6395 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6396 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6397 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6398 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6399 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6400 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6402 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6403 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6404 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6405 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6406 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6407 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6409 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6410 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6411 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6412 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6413 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6416 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6417 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6418 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6419 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6420 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6422 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6423 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6424 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6425 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6428 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6429 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6430 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6431 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6432 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6434 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6435 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6436 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6437 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6438 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6441 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6442 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6443 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6444 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6445 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6446 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6447 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6448 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6450 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6451 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6452 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6453 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6454 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6457 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6458 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6459 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6461 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6462 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6463 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6466 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6467 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6468 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6469 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6471 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6472 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6473 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6476 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6477 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6478 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6480 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6481 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6482 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6483 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6485 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6486 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6487 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6488 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6489 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6491 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6492 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6493 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6495 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6496 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6497 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6498 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6500 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6501 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6502 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6505 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6506 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6507 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6508 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6509 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6510 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6511 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6512 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6513 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6514 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6515 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6516 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6517 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6520 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6521 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6522 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6523 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6524 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6526 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6527 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6528 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6530 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6531 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6532 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6534 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6535 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6536 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6538 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6539 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6540 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6543 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6544 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6545 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6547 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6548 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6549 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6550 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6551 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6552 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6554 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6555 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6556 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6557 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6558 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6560 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6561 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6562 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6565 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6566 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6567 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6569 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6570 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6571 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6573 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6574 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6575 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6576 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6578 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6579 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6580 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6581 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6583 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6584 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6585 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6586 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6588 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6589 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6590 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6591 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6593 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6594 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6595 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6596 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6597 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6598 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6599 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6601 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6602 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6603 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6604 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6606 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6607 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6608 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6609 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6611 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6612 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6613 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6616 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6617 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6618 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6619 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6620 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6621 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6622 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6624 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6625 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6626 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6627 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6630 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6631 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6632 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6633 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6634 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6636 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6637 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6638 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6640 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6641 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6642 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6643 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6644 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6645 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6646 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6647 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6648 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6649 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6650 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6652 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6653 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6654 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6655 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6656 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6658 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6659 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6660 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6663 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6664 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6665 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6666 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6667 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6669 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6670 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6671 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6672 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6674 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6675 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6676 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6677 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6678 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6681 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6682 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6683 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6686 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6687 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6688 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6689 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6691 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6692 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6693 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6694 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6696 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6697 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6698 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6700 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6701 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6702 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6703 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6705 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6706 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6707 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6708 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6711 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6712 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6713 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6714 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6715 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6716 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6719 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6720 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6721 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6722 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6724 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6725 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6726 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6728 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6729 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6730 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6732 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6733 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6734 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6735 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6736 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6737 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6738 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6740 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6741 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6742 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6745 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6746 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6747 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6748 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6749 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6750 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6751 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6752 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6754 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6755 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6756 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6757 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6758 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6759 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6762 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6763 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6764 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6765 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6766 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6768 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6769 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6770 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6771 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6772 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6773 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6774 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6775 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6777 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6778 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6779 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6782 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6783 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6784 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6785 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6786 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6787 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6788 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6789 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6790 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6791 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6793 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6794 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6795 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6796 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6797 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6798 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6800 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6801 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6802 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6803 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6805 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6806 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6807 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6808 Resolves issue 29702.
6810 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6811 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6813 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6814 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6815 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6816 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6819 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6820 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6821 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6822 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6824 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6825 Closes ticket 31859.
6826 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6827 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6829 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6830 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6831 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6832 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6833 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6834 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6835 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6836 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6837 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6838 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6840 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6841 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6842 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6843 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6844 Closes ticket 32500.
6847 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
6848 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6849 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
6850 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
6853 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6854 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6855 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6856 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6857 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6858 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6859 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6860 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6861 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6863 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6864 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6865 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6868 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6869 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6870 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6872 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6873 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6874 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6875 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6876 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6878 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6879 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6880 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6882 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6883 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6884 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
6885 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6887 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6888 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6889 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6890 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6893 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6894 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6895 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6896 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6897 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6899 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6900 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6901 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6904 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6905 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6906 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6908 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6909 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6910 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6911 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6912 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6913 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6915 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6916 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6917 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6918 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6919 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6920 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6921 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6922 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6923 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6924 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6926 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6927 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6928 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6929 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6932 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
6933 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
6934 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
6935 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
6936 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
6937 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
6938 bugfixes on earlier versions.
6940 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
6941 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
6942 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6943 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6945 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
6946 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6948 o Directory authority changes:
6949 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6952 o Major features (circuit padding):
6953 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
6954 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
6955 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
6956 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
6957 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
6958 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
6959 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
6960 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
6961 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
6963 o Major features (code organization):
6964 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
6965 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
6966 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
6967 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
6970 o Major features (controller protocol):
6971 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
6972 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
6973 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
6974 Closes ticket 30091.
6976 o Major features (flow control):
6977 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
6978 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
6979 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
6980 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
6981 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
6982 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
6983 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
6985 o Major features (performance):
6986 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
6987 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
6988 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
6990 o Major features (performance, RNG):
6991 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
6992 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
6993 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
6994 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
6995 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
6996 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
6997 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
6998 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
7000 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
7001 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
7002 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
7003 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
7004 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
7005 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
7006 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
7007 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
7008 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
7009 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
7010 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7012 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7013 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
7014 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
7016 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7017 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
7018 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
7019 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
7020 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7022 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
7023 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
7024 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
7025 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
7026 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7029 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
7030 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
7031 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
7032 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
7033 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
7035 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
7036 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
7037 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
7038 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
7041 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
7042 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
7043 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
7044 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
7045 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
7046 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
7049 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
7050 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
7051 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
7052 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
7054 o Minor features (circuit padding):
7055 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
7057 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
7058 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
7059 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
7060 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
7061 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7062 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
7063 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
7065 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
7066 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
7067 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
7069 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7070 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
7071 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
7072 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
7073 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
7075 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
7076 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
7078 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
7080 o Minor features (controller):
7081 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
7082 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
7083 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7085 o Minor features (debugging):
7086 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
7087 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
7088 can use format strings to include information for trouble
7089 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
7091 o Minor features (defense in depth):
7092 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
7093 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
7094 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
7095 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
7096 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
7097 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
7098 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
7099 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
7100 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
7102 o Minor features (developer tools):
7103 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
7104 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
7105 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
7106 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
7107 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
7109 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
7110 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
7112 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
7113 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
7115 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7116 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
7117 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
7118 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
7119 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
7121 o Minor features (geoip):
7122 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7123 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
7124 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7125 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
7127 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
7128 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
7129 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
7131 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
7132 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
7133 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
7134 addresses. Implements 26992.
7136 o Minor features (logging):
7137 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
7138 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
7139 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
7140 Closes ticket 30686.
7142 o Minor features (maintenance):
7143 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
7144 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
7145 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
7147 o Minor features (modularity):
7148 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
7149 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
7151 o Minor features (performance):
7152 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
7153 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
7154 Closes ticket 28837.
7156 o Minor features (testing):
7157 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
7158 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
7159 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
7160 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
7162 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
7163 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
7164 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
7165 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
7166 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
7167 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
7168 Implements ticket 29732.
7169 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
7170 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
7172 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
7173 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
7175 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
7176 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
7177 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
7178 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
7179 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7180 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7182 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
7183 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
7184 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
7185 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7187 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
7188 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
7189 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7191 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7192 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
7193 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7194 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
7195 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
7196 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
7197 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7198 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
7199 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
7200 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7201 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
7202 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7203 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7204 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
7205 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7206 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
7207 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
7208 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7210 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
7211 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
7212 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
7213 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
7214 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7216 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
7217 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
7218 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
7219 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
7220 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7221 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7223 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
7224 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
7225 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
7228 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7229 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
7230 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7232 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
7233 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
7234 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
7235 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7237 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
7238 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
7239 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
7240 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7242 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7243 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
7244 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7245 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
7246 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7247 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
7248 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7250 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7251 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
7252 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
7253 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
7254 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
7256 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
7257 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
7258 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
7259 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7261 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7262 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
7263 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
7266 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7267 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
7268 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
7269 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7270 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
7271 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
7273 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
7274 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7275 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7277 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7278 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
7279 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7280 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
7281 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
7282 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
7284 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
7285 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
7287 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7288 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
7289 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
7290 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
7291 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7292 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
7293 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
7296 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7297 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
7298 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
7300 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
7301 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
7304 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
7305 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
7306 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
7307 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
7309 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7310 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
7311 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
7312 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7313 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
7314 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
7315 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
7316 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
7318 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
7319 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
7320 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7321 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
7322 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
7323 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
7324 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7326 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
7327 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
7328 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
7329 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
7330 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
7331 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7333 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
7334 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
7335 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
7336 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
7339 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7340 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
7341 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
7342 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
7343 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7345 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7346 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
7347 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7349 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7350 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
7351 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
7352 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
7353 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
7354 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
7357 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
7358 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
7359 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
7362 o Minor bugfixes (python):
7363 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
7364 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
7365 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7367 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7368 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
7369 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
7370 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
7371 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7373 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
7374 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
7375 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
7376 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
7378 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7379 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
7380 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
7381 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
7382 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7384 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7385 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
7386 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
7387 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7388 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
7389 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7390 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
7391 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7392 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
7393 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
7394 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
7395 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
7396 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7398 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
7399 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
7400 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
7401 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
7402 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7404 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7405 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
7406 port. Implements ticket 30007.
7407 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
7408 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
7409 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
7410 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
7411 string to directory connection with or without compression.
7412 Resolves issue 28816.
7413 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
7414 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
7415 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
7416 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
7417 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
7418 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
7419 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
7420 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
7421 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
7422 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
7423 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
7424 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
7425 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
7426 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
7427 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
7428 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
7429 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7430 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
7431 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7432 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
7433 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
7434 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
7435 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
7436 Closes ticket 29894.
7437 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
7438 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
7439 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
7440 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
7443 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
7444 Closes ticket 30630.
7445 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
7446 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
7450 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
7451 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
7452 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
7453 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
7457 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7458 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7459 Resolves issue 29702.
7461 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7462 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
7463 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
7464 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
7465 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
7466 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
7467 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
7468 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
7469 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
7470 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
7471 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
7474 o Testing (chutney):
7475 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
7476 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
7477 Closes ticket 27251.
7479 o Testing (continuous integration):
7480 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
7481 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7482 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
7483 Closes ticket 30694.
7486 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
7487 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
7488 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
7489 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
7490 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
7491 long-term maintainability.
7493 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
7494 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
7495 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7496 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7498 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
7499 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7501 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
7502 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
7503 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
7504 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
7505 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
7506 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
7508 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
7509 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
7511 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
7512 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
7515 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
7516 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
7517 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
7518 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
7519 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
7520 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
7521 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
7522 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
7523 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
7526 o Major features (circuit padding):
7527 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
7528 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
7529 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
7530 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
7531 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
7532 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
7533 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
7534 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
7537 o Major features (refactoring):
7538 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
7539 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
7540 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
7541 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
7544 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7545 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7546 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7547 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7548 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7549 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7550 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7551 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7553 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7554 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7555 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7556 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7557 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7559 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
7560 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
7561 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
7562 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
7563 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
7564 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7566 o Minor features (address selection):
7567 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
7568 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
7569 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
7570 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
7571 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
7572 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
7573 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7575 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
7576 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
7577 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
7578 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
7579 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
7581 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
7582 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
7583 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
7586 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
7587 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
7588 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
7589 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
7590 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
7593 o Minor features (compilation):
7594 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7595 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7596 Patches from "Mangix".
7598 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7599 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
7600 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
7602 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
7604 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
7605 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
7606 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
7608 o Minor features (controller):
7609 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
7610 Implements ticket 28843.
7612 o Minor features (developer tooling):
7613 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
7614 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
7615 release. Closes ticket 27761.
7616 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
7617 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
7618 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
7620 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
7621 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
7622 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
7624 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7625 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
7626 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
7629 o Minor features (directory authority):
7630 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
7631 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
7632 Closes ticket 26698.
7633 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
7634 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
7635 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
7636 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
7639 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
7640 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
7641 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
7642 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
7643 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
7644 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
7645 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
7647 o Minor features (dormant mode):
7648 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
7649 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
7650 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
7651 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
7652 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
7653 background. Closes ticket 29357.
7655 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
7656 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
7657 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
7659 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
7660 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
7661 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
7662 Closes ticket 28518.
7664 o Minor features (geoip):
7665 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7666 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
7668 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
7669 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
7670 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
7671 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
7673 o Minor features (IPv6):
7674 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
7675 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
7676 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
7677 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
7678 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
7679 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7680 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
7681 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
7682 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
7683 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7685 o Minor features (log messages):
7686 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
7687 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
7690 o Minor features (memory usage):
7691 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
7692 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
7693 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
7694 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
7695 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
7697 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
7698 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
7699 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
7700 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
7702 o Minor features (parsing):
7703 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
7704 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
7705 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
7707 o Minor features (performance):
7708 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
7709 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
7710 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
7711 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
7713 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
7714 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
7715 Closes ticket 28852.
7716 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
7717 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
7718 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
7719 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
7720 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
7721 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
7723 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
7724 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
7725 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
7726 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
7727 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
7729 o Minor features (process management):
7730 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
7731 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
7732 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
7733 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
7734 module. Closes ticket 28847.
7736 o Minor features (relay):
7737 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
7738 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
7739 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
7741 o Minor features (required protocols):
7742 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
7743 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
7744 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
7745 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
7746 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
7747 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
7748 297; closes ticket 27735.
7750 o Minor features (testing):
7751 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7753 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
7754 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
7755 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
7756 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
7759 o Minor bugfixes (security):
7760 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
7761 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
7762 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
7763 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
7764 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
7765 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
7766 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
7767 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
7769 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
7770 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
7771 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
7772 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7774 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
7775 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
7776 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
7777 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
7778 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
7780 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
7781 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
7782 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7784 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
7785 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7786 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7787 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7789 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7790 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
7791 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
7794 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
7795 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
7796 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7797 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7798 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7801 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7802 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
7803 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7804 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7805 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7806 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7808 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
7809 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7810 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7812 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
7813 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
7814 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
7815 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7817 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
7818 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
7819 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
7820 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
7821 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
7823 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7824 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7825 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7826 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7828 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7829 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
7830 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
7831 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
7832 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
7833 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
7834 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7836 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
7837 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7838 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7839 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7842 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7843 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
7844 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
7845 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
7846 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7847 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
7848 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
7849 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
7850 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7851 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
7852 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7853 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
7854 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7855 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7856 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7857 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7858 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7859 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7860 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7861 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7862 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7863 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7865 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7866 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
7867 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
7868 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7869 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
7870 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7872 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7873 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7874 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7875 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7876 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7878 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7879 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
7880 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
7881 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7883 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
7884 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7885 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7886 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7887 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7888 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7890 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7891 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7892 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7894 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7895 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7896 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7898 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7899 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7900 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7901 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7903 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
7904 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
7905 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
7906 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7908 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7909 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
7910 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
7911 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
7912 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7914 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7915 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
7916 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7918 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
7919 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
7920 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
7921 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
7922 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
7925 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
7926 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
7927 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
7928 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
7929 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
7930 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
7931 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
7933 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7934 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
7935 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
7938 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7939 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
7940 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
7941 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7942 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
7943 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
7945 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
7946 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
7947 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
7948 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
7949 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
7950 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
7951 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7952 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7953 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7954 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7955 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7957 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
7958 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
7959 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
7960 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7962 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
7963 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
7964 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
7965 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
7966 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
7967 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
7968 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
7969 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7971 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
7972 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7973 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7974 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7975 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7977 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
7978 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
7979 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
7980 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
7981 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
7982 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7984 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7985 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
7986 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
7987 Resolves issue 28816.
7988 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
7989 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
7990 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
7991 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
7992 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
7994 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
7995 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
7996 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
7997 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
7998 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
7999 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
8000 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
8001 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
8005 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
8006 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
8007 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
8008 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
8009 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
8010 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
8011 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
8012 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
8013 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
8015 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
8018 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
8019 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
8020 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
8021 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
8022 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
8023 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
8024 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
8025 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
8028 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
8030 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
8031 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
8033 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
8034 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
8035 code from client and service into one function. Closes
8038 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
8039 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
8041 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
8042 Resolves ticket 28006.
8043 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
8044 Resolves ticket 28012.
8045 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
8046 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
8047 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
8048 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
8052 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
8053 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
8054 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
8057 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8058 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8059 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8061 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8062 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8063 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8064 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8065 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8066 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8067 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8068 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8070 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8071 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8072 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8073 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8074 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8076 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8077 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8078 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8079 Patches from "Mangix".
8081 o Minor features (geoip):
8082 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8083 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8085 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8086 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8089 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8090 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8091 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8092 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8093 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8094 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8096 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8097 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8098 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8099 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8102 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8103 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8104 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8105 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8107 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8108 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
8109 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8112 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8113 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8114 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8115 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8117 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8118 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8119 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8120 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8122 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8123 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8124 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8125 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8126 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8127 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8129 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8130 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8131 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8132 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8133 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8135 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8136 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8137 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8138 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8139 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8141 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8142 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8143 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8145 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8146 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8147 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8149 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8150 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8151 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8152 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8154 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8155 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8156 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8158 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8159 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8160 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8161 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8162 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8165 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8166 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8167 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8168 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8169 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8172 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
8173 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
8174 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
8175 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
8176 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8178 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8179 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8180 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8181 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8182 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8183 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8184 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8185 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8187 o Minor features (geoip):
8188 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8189 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8191 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8192 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8193 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8194 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8196 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8197 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8198 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8199 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8200 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8203 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
8204 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8205 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8206 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8208 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
8209 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
8210 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
8211 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8213 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8214 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8215 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8216 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8217 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8218 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8219 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8220 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8222 o Minor features (geoip):
8223 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8224 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8226 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8227 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8228 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8229 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8231 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8232 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8233 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8234 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8235 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8238 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
8239 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8240 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
8241 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
8242 to this version, or to a later series.
8244 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
8245 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
8246 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
8247 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
8248 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
8249 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8251 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8252 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8253 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8254 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8255 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8258 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8259 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8260 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8261 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8263 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8264 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8265 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8266 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8267 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8268 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8269 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8270 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8272 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8273 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8274 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8275 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8277 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8278 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8279 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8280 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8281 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8283 o Minor features (geoip):
8284 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8285 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8287 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8288 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8289 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8290 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8291 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8292 Closes ticket 28973.
8294 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8295 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8296 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8297 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8299 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8300 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8301 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8304 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8305 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8306 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8308 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8309 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8310 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8311 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8313 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8314 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8315 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8316 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8318 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8319 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8320 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8321 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8322 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8323 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8326 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8327 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8328 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8331 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8332 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8333 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8334 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8335 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8337 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8338 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8339 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8340 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8341 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8343 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8344 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8345 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8346 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8347 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8348 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8350 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8351 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
8352 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
8355 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8356 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8357 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8359 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8360 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8361 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8363 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8364 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8365 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8368 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8369 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8370 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8371 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8372 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8373 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8374 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8375 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8377 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8378 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8379 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8380 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8382 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8383 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8384 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8385 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8386 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8387 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8388 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8389 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8390 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8391 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8393 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8394 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8395 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8396 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8397 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8398 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8400 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8401 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8402 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8403 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8404 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8406 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8407 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8408 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8411 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
8412 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8413 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
8414 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
8417 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
8418 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
8419 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
8422 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8423 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8424 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8425 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8426 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8429 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8430 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8431 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8432 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8433 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8434 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8435 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8437 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8438 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8439 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8442 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8443 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8444 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8445 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8446 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8449 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8450 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8451 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8452 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8453 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8455 o Minor features (geoip):
8456 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8457 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8459 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8460 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8461 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8462 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8463 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8464 Closes ticket 28973.
8466 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8467 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8468 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8469 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8471 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8472 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8473 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8474 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8475 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8478 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8479 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8480 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8481 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8483 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8484 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8485 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8487 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8488 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8489 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8490 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8492 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8493 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8494 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8495 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8496 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8497 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8500 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8501 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8502 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8504 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8505 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8506 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8507 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8508 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8510 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8511 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8512 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8513 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8514 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8515 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8517 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8518 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8519 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8520 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8522 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8523 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8524 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8527 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
8528 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8529 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
8530 affecting directory caches.
8532 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
8533 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
8534 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
8535 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
8536 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
8537 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
8538 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
8539 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
8541 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
8542 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
8543 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
8544 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
8545 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
8546 so it will recognize them.
8548 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
8549 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
8550 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
8551 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
8552 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
8553 with the latest stable release.)
8555 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
8556 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8558 o Major features (bootstrap):
8559 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
8560 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
8561 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
8562 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
8564 o Major features (new code layout):
8565 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
8566 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
8567 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
8568 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
8569 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
8570 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
8571 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
8573 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
8574 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
8575 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
8577 o Major features (onion services v3):
8578 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
8579 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
8580 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
8581 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
8582 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
8583 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
8584 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
8585 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
8586 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
8587 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
8588 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
8589 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
8590 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
8591 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
8592 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
8593 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
8594 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
8595 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
8597 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
8598 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
8599 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
8600 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
8601 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
8602 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
8604 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
8605 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
8606 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
8607 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
8608 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
8609 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
8610 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
8612 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
8613 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
8614 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
8615 (if present), and restart Tor.
8617 o Major features (relay, UI change):
8618 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
8619 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
8620 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
8621 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
8622 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8623 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
8624 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
8626 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8627 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8628 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8630 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
8631 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
8632 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
8633 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
8634 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
8635 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8637 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8638 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
8639 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
8640 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
8643 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
8644 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
8645 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
8646 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
8647 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8649 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
8650 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8651 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8652 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8653 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8655 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
8656 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
8657 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
8658 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
8659 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
8660 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
8662 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
8663 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8664 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8665 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8666 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8669 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
8670 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
8671 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
8672 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
8673 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
8674 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
8676 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8677 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8678 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8679 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8680 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8682 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8683 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8684 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8685 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8686 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8687 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8689 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
8690 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8691 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8692 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8694 o Minor features (admin tools):
8695 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
8696 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
8699 o Minor features (build):
8700 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
8701 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
8702 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
8703 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
8705 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
8706 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
8707 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
8708 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
8709 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
8711 o Minor features (code layout):
8712 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
8713 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
8714 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
8715 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
8718 o Minor features (compilation):
8719 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
8720 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
8721 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
8722 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
8723 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
8724 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
8727 o Minor features (config):
8728 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
8731 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8732 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
8734 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
8735 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
8736 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8737 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8738 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8739 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
8740 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
8742 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8743 Implements ticket 27252.
8744 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8745 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8746 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8747 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8748 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8749 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8750 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8751 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8752 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8754 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
8755 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8756 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8758 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
8759 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
8761 o Minor features (controller):
8762 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
8763 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
8764 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
8765 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
8766 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8767 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8768 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8769 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8771 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
8772 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
8773 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
8774 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
8776 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8777 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
8778 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
8779 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8781 o Minor features (development):
8782 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
8783 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
8785 o Minor features (directory authority):
8786 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
8787 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
8788 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
8789 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
8791 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
8792 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
8795 o Minor features (embedding API):
8796 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
8797 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
8798 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
8799 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
8800 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
8801 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
8804 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8805 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8806 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8807 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8808 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8810 o Minor features (geoip):
8811 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8812 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8814 o Minor features (memory management):
8815 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
8816 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
8819 o Minor features (memory usage):
8820 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
8821 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
8822 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
8824 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
8825 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8826 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8827 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8828 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8829 Closes ticket 28973.
8831 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
8832 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
8833 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
8835 o Minor features (performance):
8836 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
8837 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
8838 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
8839 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
8840 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
8841 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
8842 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
8843 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
8844 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
8845 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
8847 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
8848 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
8849 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
8850 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
8852 o Minor features (testing):
8853 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
8854 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
8856 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
8857 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
8858 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
8860 o Minor features (UI):
8861 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
8862 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
8863 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
8864 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
8865 Closes ticket 26703.
8867 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
8868 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8869 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8870 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8871 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8873 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8874 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8875 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8876 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8877 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8880 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8881 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
8882 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
8883 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8885 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8886 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
8887 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
8888 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8889 - Use time_t for all values in
8890 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
8891 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
8892 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8894 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
8895 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
8896 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
8897 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
8898 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
8901 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
8902 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
8903 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
8904 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
8905 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
8906 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8908 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
8909 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
8910 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
8911 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8913 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
8914 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8915 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8918 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8919 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8920 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8921 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8923 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8924 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
8925 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
8928 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
8929 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
8930 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
8931 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
8932 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
8934 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
8935 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8936 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8937 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8938 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8941 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8942 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8943 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8944 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8945 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8946 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8947 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8948 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8949 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8950 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8951 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8952 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8953 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8955 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8956 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8957 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8959 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8960 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
8961 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
8962 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
8963 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
8966 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8967 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
8968 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
8969 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
8970 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8972 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
8973 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8974 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8976 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
8977 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8978 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8979 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8980 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8981 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8984 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8985 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8986 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8989 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
8990 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
8991 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
8992 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
8993 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8995 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8996 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
8997 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
9000 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9001 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
9002 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
9004 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
9005 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
9006 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
9007 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
9008 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
9009 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
9011 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
9012 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
9013 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
9014 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
9015 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9017 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9018 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9019 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9020 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
9021 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9023 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
9024 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9025 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9027 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
9028 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
9029 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
9030 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
9033 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9034 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9035 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9036 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9037 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9038 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9039 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
9040 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
9041 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
9043 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
9044 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
9046 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9047 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9048 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9049 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9050 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9051 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9052 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9053 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9054 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9055 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9056 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9058 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
9059 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
9060 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
9061 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9063 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
9064 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
9065 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
9066 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
9067 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
9069 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
9070 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
9071 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
9072 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
9074 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
9075 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9076 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9079 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
9080 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
9082 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9083 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9084 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9085 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9086 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9087 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9088 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9089 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9090 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9091 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9093 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
9094 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
9095 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
9096 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
9097 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9099 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9100 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9101 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9102 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9104 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9105 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
9106 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
9107 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
9108 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
9109 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9110 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9111 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
9112 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
9113 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9115 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9116 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
9117 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
9118 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9119 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9120 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9121 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9122 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9123 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9125 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
9126 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
9127 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9128 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
9129 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9130 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9131 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9132 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9133 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9134 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9135 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
9136 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
9137 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9138 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
9139 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9141 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
9142 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
9143 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
9144 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
9145 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
9146 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
9147 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
9148 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
9150 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
9151 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
9152 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
9153 reported by Keifer Bly.
9155 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9156 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
9157 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
9159 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
9160 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
9161 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
9162 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
9163 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
9164 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
9165 Closes ticket 27814.
9166 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
9167 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
9168 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
9169 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
9170 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
9171 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
9172 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
9173 Closes ticket 27799.
9174 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
9175 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
9176 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
9177 directory within the top-level src directory.
9178 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
9179 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
9180 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
9181 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
9182 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
9183 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
9184 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
9185 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
9186 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
9187 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
9188 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
9189 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
9190 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
9191 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
9192 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
9193 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
9194 Closes ticket 21349.
9195 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
9196 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
9197 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
9198 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
9199 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
9200 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
9201 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
9203 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
9204 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
9205 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
9208 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
9209 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
9210 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
9211 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
9212 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
9213 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
9214 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
9215 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
9216 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
9219 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
9220 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
9221 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
9222 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
9223 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
9224 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
9225 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
9226 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
9227 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
9228 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
9229 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
9230 Closes ticket 26367.
9233 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
9234 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
9236 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
9237 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
9238 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
9239 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
9240 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
9241 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
9242 Closes ticket 19566.
9244 o Documentation (onion services):
9245 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
9246 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
9247 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
9248 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
9249 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
9250 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
9251 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
9252 process. Closes ticket 28275.
9255 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
9256 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9257 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
9258 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9259 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
9261 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9262 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9263 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9265 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9266 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9267 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9268 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9269 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9271 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9272 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9273 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9274 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9275 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9278 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9279 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9280 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9281 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9283 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9284 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9285 Implements ticket 27252.
9286 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9287 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9288 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9289 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9290 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9291 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9292 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9294 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9295 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9296 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9297 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9299 o Minor features (geoip):
9300 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9301 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9303 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9304 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9305 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9306 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9307 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9309 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9310 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9311 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9312 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9313 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9316 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9317 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9318 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9321 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9322 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9323 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9324 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9325 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9327 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9328 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9329 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9331 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9332 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9333 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9335 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9336 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9337 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9338 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9340 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9341 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9342 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9344 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9345 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9346 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9349 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9350 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9351 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9353 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9354 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9355 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9358 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9359 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9360 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9361 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9362 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9364 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9365 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9366 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9367 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9368 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9369 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9371 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9372 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9373 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9376 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9377 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9378 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9379 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9380 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9381 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9382 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9383 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9385 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9386 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9387 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9388 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9390 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9391 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9392 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9393 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9394 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9396 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9397 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9398 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9399 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9400 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9401 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9403 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9404 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9405 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9406 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9407 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9408 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9410 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9411 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9412 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9413 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9416 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9417 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9418 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9419 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9420 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9423 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
9424 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
9426 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9427 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9428 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9429 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9431 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9432 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9434 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9435 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9436 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9437 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9439 o Minor features (geoip):
9440 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9441 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9443 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9444 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9445 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9446 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9448 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9449 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9450 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9451 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9452 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9453 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9454 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9455 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9458 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9459 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9460 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9461 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9463 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9464 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9465 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9466 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9468 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9469 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9470 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9471 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9473 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9474 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9475 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9476 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9477 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9479 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9480 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9481 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9484 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9485 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9486 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9487 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9488 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9490 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9491 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9492 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9495 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9496 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9497 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9498 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9500 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9501 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9502 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9504 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9505 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9506 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9509 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9510 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9511 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9512 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9513 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9515 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9516 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9517 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9520 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
9521 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9523 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9524 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9525 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9526 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9528 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9529 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9531 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9532 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9533 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9534 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9536 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9537 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9540 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9541 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9542 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9543 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9545 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9546 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9547 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9548 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9550 o Minor features (geoip):
9551 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9552 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9554 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9555 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9556 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9557 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9558 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9559 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9560 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9562 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9563 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9564 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9565 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9566 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9567 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9568 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9569 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9572 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9573 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9574 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9575 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9577 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9578 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9579 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9580 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9582 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9583 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9584 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9585 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9586 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9588 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9589 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9590 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9591 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9592 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9594 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9595 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9596 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9599 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9600 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9601 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9602 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9603 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9605 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9606 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9607 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9610 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9611 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9612 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9615 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9616 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9617 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9620 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9621 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9623 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9624 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9625 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9626 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9628 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9629 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9630 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9631 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9633 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9634 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9635 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9637 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9638 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9639 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9640 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9641 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9642 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9643 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9646 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9647 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
9648 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
9649 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
9650 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9652 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9653 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9654 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9655 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9656 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9658 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9659 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9660 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9663 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
9664 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9666 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9667 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9668 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9669 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9671 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9672 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9673 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9674 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9676 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9677 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9678 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9680 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9681 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9682 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9683 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9685 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9686 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9689 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9690 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9691 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9692 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9694 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9695 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9696 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9697 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9699 o Minor features (geoip):
9700 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9701 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9703 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9704 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9705 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9706 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9707 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9708 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9709 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9711 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9712 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9713 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9714 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9715 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9716 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9717 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9718 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9721 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9722 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9723 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9724 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9726 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9727 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9728 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9729 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9731 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9732 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9733 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9734 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9735 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9737 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9738 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9739 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9740 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9741 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9743 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9744 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9745 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9748 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9749 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9750 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9751 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9753 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9754 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9755 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9756 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9757 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9759 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9760 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9761 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9764 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9765 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9766 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9769 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9770 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9771 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9774 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9775 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9776 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9777 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9779 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9780 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9781 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9784 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9785 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9787 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9788 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9789 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9790 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9791 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9792 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9793 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9795 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9796 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9797 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9798 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9799 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9801 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9802 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9803 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9804 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9806 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9807 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9808 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9810 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9811 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9812 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9813 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9814 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9815 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9816 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9819 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9820 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9821 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9822 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9823 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9825 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9826 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9827 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9828 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9829 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9831 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9832 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9833 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9836 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
9837 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9838 compilation and portability fixes.
9840 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
9841 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
9842 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
9843 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
9844 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
9845 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
9846 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
9847 our anti-denial-of-service code.
9849 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
9850 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9852 o New system requirements:
9853 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
9854 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
9855 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
9856 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
9858 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
9859 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
9860 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
9861 To disable the module, the configure option
9862 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
9863 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
9865 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
9866 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
9867 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
9868 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
9869 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
9870 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
9871 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
9872 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
9873 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
9874 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
9875 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
9877 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
9878 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
9879 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
9880 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
9881 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
9882 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
9883 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
9884 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
9885 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
9886 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
9887 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
9888 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
9889 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
9890 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
9891 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
9892 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
9893 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
9894 Tor's uptime (26009).
9896 o Minor features (accounting):
9897 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
9898 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
9899 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
9900 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
9902 o Minor features (bug workaround):
9903 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9904 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9905 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9907 o Minor features (code quality):
9908 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
9909 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
9910 Closes ticket 25024.
9912 o Minor features (compatibility):
9913 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9914 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9915 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9916 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
9917 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
9918 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
9920 o Minor features (compilation):
9921 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9922 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9923 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9924 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9925 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9926 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9927 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9928 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9931 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
9932 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
9933 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
9934 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
9935 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
9936 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
9938 o Minor features (configuration):
9939 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
9940 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
9941 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
9942 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
9943 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
9945 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9946 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
9947 Implements ticket 27449.
9948 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
9949 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
9951 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9952 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9954 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9955 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9956 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
9957 Implements ticket 27275.
9958 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9959 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9960 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
9961 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
9962 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
9964 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
9965 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9968 o Minor features (control port):
9969 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
9970 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
9971 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
9972 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9973 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
9974 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
9975 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
9976 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
9977 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
9978 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
9980 o Minor features (controller):
9981 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9982 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9983 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9985 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9986 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
9987 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
9988 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
9989 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9990 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9991 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9993 o Minor features (directory authority):
9994 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
9995 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
9996 Closes ticket 23909.
9998 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
9999 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
10000 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
10001 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
10003 o Minor features (entry guards):
10004 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
10005 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
10007 o Minor features (geoip):
10008 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10009 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10011 o Minor features (performance):
10012 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
10013 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
10014 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
10015 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
10017 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
10018 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
10020 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
10021 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
10023 o Minor features (testing):
10024 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
10025 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
10026 more deterministic.
10027 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
10028 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
10029 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
10030 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
10031 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
10032 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
10034 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
10035 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
10036 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
10037 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
10038 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
10040 o Minor features (unit tests):
10041 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
10042 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
10043 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
10046 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
10047 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
10048 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
10049 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
10050 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
10051 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
10053 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10054 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
10055 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
10056 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
10058 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
10059 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
10060 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10061 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
10062 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
10064 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10065 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10066 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10067 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10068 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10069 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10070 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10071 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10073 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10074 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10075 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10076 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10077 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
10078 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
10079 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10080 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
10081 Closes ticket 26245.
10082 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
10083 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
10084 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10086 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
10087 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10088 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10089 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10091 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10092 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10093 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10094 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10095 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10097 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
10098 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
10099 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
10100 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
10101 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10102 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
10103 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
10104 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10105 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
10106 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
10107 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
10108 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10110 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
10111 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
10112 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
10115 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10116 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10117 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10120 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
10121 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
10122 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10123 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
10124 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
10125 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
10128 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
10129 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
10130 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
10131 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
10132 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
10133 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
10134 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
10136 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
10137 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10138 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10139 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10141 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10142 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10143 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10144 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10145 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10147 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10148 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10149 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10152 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10153 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10154 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10156 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10157 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10159 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
10160 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
10161 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
10162 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
10163 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10165 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10166 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10167 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10169 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10170 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10171 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10172 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
10173 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
10176 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
10177 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
10178 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
10179 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10181 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10182 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
10183 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
10184 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
10185 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
10186 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
10187 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
10189 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10190 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10192 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10193 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10194 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10195 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10196 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10198 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10199 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10200 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10201 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10202 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10204 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
10205 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
10206 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
10207 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10209 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
10210 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
10211 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
10212 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
10215 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10216 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10217 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10218 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
10219 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
10220 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
10221 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
10222 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10223 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
10224 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
10226 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
10227 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
10228 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10229 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
10230 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
10231 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
10232 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
10234 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
10235 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
10236 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
10237 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
10238 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
10240 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
10241 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
10242 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
10245 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
10246 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
10247 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
10248 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
10249 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10251 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
10252 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10253 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10254 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10255 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10256 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10257 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10260 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10261 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10262 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10263 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10264 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10266 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
10267 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
10268 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
10269 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
10270 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10272 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
10273 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
10274 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
10275 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
10276 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
10277 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10279 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
10280 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10281 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10283 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10284 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
10285 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
10286 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
10287 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
10288 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
10289 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
10290 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
10292 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
10293 confusing we renamed some functions and
10294 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
10295 router_should_check_reachability() and
10296 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
10297 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
10298 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
10299 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
10300 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
10302 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
10303 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
10305 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
10306 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
10307 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10308 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
10309 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
10310 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
10311 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
10312 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
10313 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
10314 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
10315 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
10316 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
10317 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
10318 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
10319 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
10320 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10321 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
10322 Closes ticket 25766.
10323 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
10324 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
10325 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
10326 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
10327 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
10328 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
10329 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
10330 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
10331 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
10332 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
10333 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10334 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
10335 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
10336 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
10338 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
10339 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
10340 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
10341 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
10342 before. Closes ticket 26016.
10343 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
10344 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
10345 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
10346 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
10348 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
10349 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
10350 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
10351 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10353 o Deprecated features:
10354 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
10355 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
10356 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
10357 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
10358 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
10359 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
10361 o Removed features:
10362 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
10363 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
10364 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
10365 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
10366 24378 and proposal 290.
10367 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
10368 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
10369 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
10370 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
10371 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
10372 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
10373 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
10374 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
10375 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
10376 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
10377 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
10378 their local router. Closes 25409.
10379 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
10380 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
10381 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
10382 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
10383 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
10384 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
10385 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
10386 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
10387 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
10388 Closes ticket 25268.
10391 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
10392 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10393 bridge relays should upgrade.
10395 o Directory authority changes:
10396 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10397 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10398 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10401 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
10402 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10403 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10406 o Directory authority changes:
10407 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10408 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10409 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10411 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10412 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10413 Closes ticket 26343.
10415 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10416 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10417 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10418 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10419 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10421 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10422 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10423 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10425 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10426 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10427 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10428 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10430 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10431 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10432 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10434 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10435 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10436 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10437 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10438 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10439 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10441 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10442 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10443 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10444 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10446 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10447 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10448 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10451 o Minor features (geoip):
10452 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10453 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10455 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10456 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10457 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10458 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10459 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10461 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10462 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10463 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10465 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10466 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10467 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10468 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10469 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10470 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10471 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10472 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10475 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10476 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10477 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10478 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10479 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10480 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10482 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10483 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10484 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10485 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10486 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10488 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10489 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10490 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10491 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10492 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10494 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10495 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10496 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10499 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10500 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10501 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10503 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10504 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10505 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10506 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10508 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10509 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10510 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10511 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10512 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10513 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10514 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10516 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10517 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10518 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10519 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10522 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10523 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10524 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10526 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10527 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10528 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10530 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10531 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10532 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10533 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10536 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10537 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10538 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10539 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10541 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10542 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10543 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10545 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10546 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10547 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10550 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
10551 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10552 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10555 o Directory authority changes:
10556 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10557 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10558 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10560 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10561 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10562 Closes ticket 26343.
10564 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10565 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10566 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10567 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10568 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10570 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10571 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10572 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10573 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10575 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10576 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10577 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10578 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10579 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10580 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10582 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10583 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10584 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10587 o Minor features (geoip):
10588 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10589 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10591 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10592 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10593 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10594 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10595 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10597 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10598 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10599 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10601 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10602 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10603 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10604 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10607 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10608 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10609 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10610 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10611 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10612 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10614 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10615 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10616 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10617 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10618 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10620 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10621 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10622 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10625 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10626 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10627 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10629 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10630 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10631 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10632 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10634 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10635 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10636 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10638 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10639 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10640 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10643 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
10644 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10645 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
10647 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10648 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10649 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10650 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10652 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10653 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10654 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10657 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10658 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10659 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10662 o Minor features (geoip):
10663 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10664 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10666 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10667 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10668 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10669 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10671 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10672 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
10673 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
10674 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
10675 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
10678 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10679 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10680 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10681 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10682 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10684 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10685 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10686 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10687 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10689 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10690 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10691 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10693 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10694 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10695 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10696 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10699 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10700 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
10701 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
10702 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10704 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10705 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10706 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10707 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10708 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10709 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10710 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10711 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10715 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
10716 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10717 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
10719 o Directory authority changes:
10720 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10721 Closes ticket 26343.
10723 o Minor features (geoip):
10724 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10725 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
10727 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10728 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10729 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10730 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10731 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10732 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10734 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10735 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10736 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10738 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10739 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
10740 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
10741 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
10742 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10744 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10745 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10746 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10748 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10749 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10750 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10751 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10752 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10753 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10756 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
10757 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
10758 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10760 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
10761 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
10762 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
10763 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
10764 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
10765 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
10767 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
10768 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10770 o New system requirements:
10771 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
10772 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
10774 o Major features (embedding):
10775 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
10776 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
10777 Closes ticket 23684.
10778 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
10779 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
10780 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
10781 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
10782 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
10783 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
10785 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
10786 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
10787 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
10788 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
10790 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
10791 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
10792 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
10793 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
10794 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
10796 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
10797 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
10800 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
10801 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
10802 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
10803 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
10804 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
10805 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
10806 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
10808 o Major features (onion services):
10809 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
10810 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
10811 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
10812 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
10813 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
10815 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
10816 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
10817 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
10818 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
10819 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
10820 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10822 o Major features (relay):
10823 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
10824 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
10825 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
10826 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
10827 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10829 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
10830 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
10831 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
10832 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
10833 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
10834 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
10835 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
10836 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
10838 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10839 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10840 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10841 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10842 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10844 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
10845 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
10846 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
10847 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
10848 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
10850 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10851 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
10852 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
10853 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10855 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
10856 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
10857 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
10858 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
10859 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
10860 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
10861 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
10862 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10864 o Major bugfixes (networking):
10865 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
10866 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
10867 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
10869 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10870 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10871 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10873 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
10874 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
10875 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
10876 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
10877 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
10878 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
10879 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
10881 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10882 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
10883 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
10884 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
10885 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10887 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10888 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
10889 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
10892 o Minor features (cleanup):
10893 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
10894 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
10896 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10897 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
10898 Closes ticket 26006.
10900 o Minor features (config options):
10901 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
10902 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
10903 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
10906 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10907 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10908 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10910 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10911 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10912 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10913 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10914 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10915 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10917 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10918 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
10919 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
10920 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
10921 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
10922 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
10923 once. Part of ticket 24337.
10924 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
10925 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
10926 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
10928 o Minor features (directory authority):
10929 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
10930 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
10932 o Minor features (embedding):
10933 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
10934 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
10935 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
10936 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
10937 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
10938 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
10939 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
10940 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
10941 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
10942 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
10943 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
10944 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
10945 Closes ticket 23848.
10946 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
10947 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
10948 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
10950 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10951 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
10952 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
10953 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
10954 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
10955 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
10956 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
10957 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
10960 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
10961 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
10962 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
10963 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
10964 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
10965 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
10966 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
10968 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
10969 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
10970 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
10971 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
10972 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
10973 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
10974 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
10975 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
10976 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
10977 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
10978 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
10979 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
10981 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
10982 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
10983 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
10985 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
10986 Implements ticket 24791.
10988 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
10989 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
10990 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
10991 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
10992 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
10993 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
10995 o Minor features (geoip):
10996 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
10997 database. Closes ticket 26104.
10999 o Minor features (heartbeat):
11000 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
11001 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
11004 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
11005 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
11006 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
11007 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
11008 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
11010 o Minor features (IPv6):
11011 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
11012 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
11013 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
11014 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
11015 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
11018 o Minor features (log messages):
11019 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
11020 information about memory usage from the different compression
11021 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
11022 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
11023 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
11024 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
11025 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
11027 o Minor features (logging):
11028 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
11029 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
11030 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
11033 o Minor features (performance):
11034 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
11035 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
11036 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
11037 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
11039 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
11040 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
11041 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
11042 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
11043 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
11044 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
11045 Implements ticket 24374.
11047 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
11048 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
11049 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
11050 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
11051 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
11053 o Minor features (performance, windows):
11054 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
11055 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
11056 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
11059 o Minor features (sandbox):
11060 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11061 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11062 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11064 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
11065 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
11066 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
11067 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
11068 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
11070 o Minor features (testing):
11071 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
11074 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
11075 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
11076 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
11077 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
11078 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
11079 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
11080 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
11081 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
11082 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
11084 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
11085 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
11086 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
11087 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
11088 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
11089 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
11090 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
11091 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
11092 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
11095 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
11096 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11097 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11098 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11100 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
11101 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
11102 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
11104 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
11105 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
11106 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
11107 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
11108 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11110 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11111 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11112 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11115 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11116 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
11117 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
11118 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11120 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11121 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
11122 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
11123 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11124 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
11125 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
11126 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11128 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11129 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
11130 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
11131 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11133 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11134 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11135 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11136 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11137 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11139 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
11140 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
11141 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
11142 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
11145 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11146 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11147 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11148 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11149 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11151 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11152 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11153 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11154 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11155 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11158 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
11159 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
11160 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
11161 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
11162 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
11164 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
11165 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
11166 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
11169 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
11170 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
11171 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
11173 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
11174 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11175 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
11176 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
11177 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
11179 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
11180 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11181 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
11182 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11184 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
11185 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
11186 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11187 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
11188 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
11189 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11191 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11192 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
11193 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
11194 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11196 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11197 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11198 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11200 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11201 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
11202 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
11203 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11205 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
11206 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
11207 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
11208 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
11211 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11212 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
11213 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
11214 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
11215 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11216 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
11219 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
11220 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
11221 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
11222 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11224 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
11225 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
11226 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
11228 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
11229 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
11230 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
11231 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
11232 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
11233 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11235 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11236 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11237 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11238 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11239 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11240 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11241 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11243 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11244 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
11245 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
11246 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
11248 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11249 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
11250 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
11251 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
11252 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
11254 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
11255 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
11256 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
11257 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
11258 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
11259 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11261 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
11262 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
11263 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
11264 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
11265 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
11266 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11267 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
11268 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
11269 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
11270 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
11271 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
11272 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11274 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11275 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11276 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11278 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
11279 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
11280 would call the Rust implementation of
11281 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
11282 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
11283 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
11284 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
11285 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11287 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
11288 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
11289 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
11290 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
11292 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11293 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11294 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11295 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11297 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
11298 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11300 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
11301 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
11302 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
11303 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
11304 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
11305 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11307 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11308 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11309 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11310 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
11311 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
11313 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
11315 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
11316 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
11317 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
11319 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
11321 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
11322 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
11323 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
11324 "aruna1234" and teor.
11325 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
11326 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
11327 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
11328 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
11330 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
11331 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
11332 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
11333 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
11334 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
11335 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
11336 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
11337 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
11338 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
11339 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
11341 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
11342 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
11345 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
11347 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
11348 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
11349 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
11350 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
11352 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
11353 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
11354 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
11355 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
11357 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
11358 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
11359 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
11360 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
11361 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
11363 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
11364 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
11365 adding very little except for unit test.
11367 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
11368 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
11369 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
11370 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
11372 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
11373 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
11374 const. Implements ticket 24489.
11376 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11377 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11378 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11380 o Documentation (man page):
11381 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
11382 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
11385 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
11386 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
11387 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
11391 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
11392 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
11395 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11396 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11398 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11399 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11401 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11404 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11405 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
11406 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11408 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
11409 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
11410 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
11411 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
11414 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11415 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11416 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11417 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11420 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11421 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11422 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11423 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11424 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11425 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11426 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11427 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11428 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11429 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11430 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11431 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11432 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11434 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11435 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11436 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11438 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11439 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11440 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11441 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11442 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11443 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11444 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11446 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11447 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11448 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11450 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11451 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11452 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11453 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11454 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11455 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11456 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11458 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11459 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11460 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11461 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11463 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11464 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11465 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11466 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11468 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11469 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11470 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11471 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11472 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11473 Closes ticket 24978.
11475 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11476 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11477 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11478 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11479 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11480 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11481 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11482 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11483 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11485 o Minor features (geoip):
11486 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11489 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11490 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11491 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11492 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11493 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11495 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11496 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11497 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11498 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11499 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11501 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11502 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11503 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11504 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11505 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11508 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11509 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11510 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11511 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11512 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11513 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11514 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11515 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11516 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11517 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11518 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11521 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
11522 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11523 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11525 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11526 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11527 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11530 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11531 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11532 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11533 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11534 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11535 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11536 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11538 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11539 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11540 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11541 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11542 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11543 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11544 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11545 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11546 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11549 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11550 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11551 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11552 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11553 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11554 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11556 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11557 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11558 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11559 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11561 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
11562 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11563 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11564 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11565 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11568 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11569 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11570 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11571 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11572 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11573 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11575 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11576 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11577 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11578 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11579 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11580 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11581 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11582 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11583 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11584 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11585 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11586 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11588 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11589 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11590 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11591 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11593 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11594 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11595 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11596 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11598 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11599 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11600 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11601 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11604 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
11605 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11606 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11607 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11608 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11610 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11611 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11613 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11614 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11616 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11617 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11618 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11621 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
11622 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11623 later Tor releases.
11625 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11626 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11628 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11629 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11631 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11634 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11635 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
11636 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11638 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11639 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11640 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11641 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11644 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
11645 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11646 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11647 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11648 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11649 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11650 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11651 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11652 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11653 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11654 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11655 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11656 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11658 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11659 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11660 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11661 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11662 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11663 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11664 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11665 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11666 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11668 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
11669 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11670 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11671 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11672 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11673 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11674 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11676 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
11677 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11678 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11679 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11681 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
11682 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11683 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11684 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11685 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11686 Closes ticket 24978.
11688 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
11689 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11690 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11691 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11693 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11694 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11695 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11696 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11697 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11698 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11699 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11700 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11701 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11703 o Minor features (geoip):
11704 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11707 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11708 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11709 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11711 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
11712 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11713 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11714 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11715 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11717 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
11718 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11719 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11720 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11721 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11723 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11724 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11725 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11726 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11727 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11730 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11731 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11732 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11734 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11735 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11736 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11739 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11740 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11741 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11742 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11743 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11744 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11745 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11747 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11748 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11749 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11750 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11751 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11754 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11755 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11756 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11757 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11758 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11759 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11761 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11762 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11763 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11764 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11766 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11767 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11768 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11769 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11770 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11771 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11772 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11773 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11774 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11775 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11776 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11777 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11779 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11780 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11781 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11782 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11785 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11786 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11787 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11788 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11789 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11791 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11792 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11794 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11795 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11798 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
11799 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
11800 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
11803 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11804 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11806 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
11807 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
11808 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
11809 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
11810 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
11811 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
11814 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11815 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11817 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11820 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
11821 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
11822 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
11823 the DoS mitigations.)
11825 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11826 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11827 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11828 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11831 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11832 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
11833 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
11834 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11836 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11837 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11838 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11839 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11840 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11841 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11842 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11843 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11844 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11845 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11846 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11847 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11848 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11850 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11851 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11852 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11853 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11854 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11855 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11856 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11857 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
11858 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
11859 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
11860 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11862 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11863 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11864 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11866 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11867 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11868 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11869 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11870 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11871 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11872 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11874 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11875 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
11876 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
11877 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11879 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11880 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11881 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11882 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11884 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11885 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11886 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11887 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11888 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11889 Closes ticket 24978.
11891 o Minor features (geoip):
11892 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11895 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11896 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
11897 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
11900 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11901 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11902 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11903 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11904 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11906 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11907 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11908 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11909 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11910 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11911 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11912 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11914 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11915 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11916 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11917 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11918 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11920 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11921 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
11922 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
11923 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11925 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11926 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
11927 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
11928 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
11929 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11931 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11932 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11933 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11934 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11936 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11937 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11938 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11939 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11941 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11942 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11943 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11944 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11946 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11947 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11949 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11950 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11952 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11953 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
11954 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
11956 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11957 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
11958 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
11959 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
11960 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11962 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11963 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11964 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11966 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
11967 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
11968 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
11972 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
11973 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
11975 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
11976 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
11977 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
11978 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
11979 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
11980 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
11982 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11983 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11984 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11985 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11986 with the 0.2.9 series.
11988 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
11989 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11991 o Directory authority changes:
11992 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11993 Closes ticket 23910.
11994 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11995 Closes ticket 23592.
11996 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11997 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11998 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11999 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12000 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12003 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
12004 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
12005 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
12006 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
12007 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
12008 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
12011 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
12012 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
12014 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
12017 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
12020 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
12022 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
12024 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
12026 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
12027 they are 56 characters long, as in
12028 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
12030 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
12031 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
12032 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
12033 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
12034 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
12037 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
12038 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
12039 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
12040 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
12041 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
12042 options. For more information, see our blog post at
12043 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
12045 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
12046 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
12047 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
12048 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
12049 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
12050 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
12051 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
12052 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
12053 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
12054 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
12055 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
12056 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
12058 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
12059 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
12060 more information, see the design paper at
12061 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
12062 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
12063 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
12064 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
12066 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
12067 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12068 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12069 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12070 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12071 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12072 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12073 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12075 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
12076 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12077 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12078 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12081 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
12082 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12083 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12084 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12085 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12086 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12087 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12088 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12089 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12090 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12091 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12092 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12095 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
12096 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12097 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12098 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12099 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12100 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12101 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12102 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12103 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12105 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12106 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12107 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12108 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12109 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12110 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12111 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12112 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12113 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12114 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
12115 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
12118 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
12119 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
12120 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
12121 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
12122 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
12123 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
12124 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12126 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
12127 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12128 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12129 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12130 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12131 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12134 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
12135 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12136 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12137 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12139 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
12140 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
12141 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
12142 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
12144 o Minor features (bridge):
12145 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
12146 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
12147 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
12148 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
12149 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
12150 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
12151 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
12152 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
12153 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
12154 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
12155 related to ticket 23080.
12157 o Minor features (bug detection):
12158 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
12159 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
12160 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
12162 o Minor features (build, compilation):
12163 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
12164 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
12165 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
12166 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
12167 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
12168 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
12169 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
12170 Closes ticket 23643.
12172 o Minor features (client):
12173 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
12174 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
12175 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
12176 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
12177 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
12178 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
12179 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
12180 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
12181 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
12182 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
12183 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
12184 Resolves ticket 23670.
12186 o Minor features (command line):
12187 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
12188 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
12189 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
12191 o Minor features (control port):
12192 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
12193 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
12194 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
12196 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
12197 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
12199 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
12200 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
12201 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
12202 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
12203 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
12204 Closes ticket 23237.
12205 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
12206 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
12208 o Minor features (development support):
12209 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
12210 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
12211 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
12212 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
12213 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
12214 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
12216 o Minor features (directory authority):
12217 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
12218 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
12219 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
12220 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
12222 o Minor features (ed25519):
12223 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
12224 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
12225 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
12227 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
12228 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
12229 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
12231 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12232 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12233 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12234 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12235 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12236 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12237 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12238 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12239 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12241 o Minor features (geoip):
12242 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12245 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
12246 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
12247 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
12248 another program, regardless of the settings of
12249 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
12250 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
12251 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
12253 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12254 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12255 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12257 o Minor features (logging):
12258 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
12260 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
12261 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
12263 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
12264 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
12265 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
12266 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
12267 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
12268 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
12269 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
12270 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
12271 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
12272 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
12274 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
12275 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
12277 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
12278 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
12279 the circuit identifier(s).
12280 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
12281 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
12283 o Minor features (portability):
12284 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
12285 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
12287 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
12288 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
12289 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
12290 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
12292 o Minor features (relay):
12293 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
12294 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
12295 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
12296 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
12297 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
12298 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
12299 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
12300 results. Closes ticket 22731.
12302 o Minor features (relay statistics):
12303 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12304 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12305 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12307 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
12308 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
12309 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
12310 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
12311 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
12313 o Minor features (robustness):
12314 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
12315 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
12317 o Minor features (startup, safety):
12318 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
12319 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
12322 o Minor features (static analysis):
12323 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
12324 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
12327 o Minor features (testing):
12328 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
12329 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
12330 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
12331 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
12333 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
12334 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
12335 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
12336 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
12337 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
12339 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12340 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12341 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12342 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12343 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12346 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12347 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
12348 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
12351 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
12352 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
12353 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
12354 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
12355 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12356 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
12357 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
12358 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
12359 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12360 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
12361 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
12362 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
12363 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12365 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
12366 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
12367 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
12368 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12370 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
12371 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12372 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12373 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12374 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
12375 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
12376 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
12377 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
12378 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12379 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12380 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12381 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
12382 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
12383 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12384 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
12385 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12386 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12388 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
12389 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
12390 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
12391 Coverity as CID 1415728.
12393 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12394 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
12395 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
12396 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12398 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
12399 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
12400 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
12401 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
12402 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
12403 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
12404 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
12405 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12407 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12408 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
12409 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
12410 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
12411 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12412 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
12413 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
12414 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
12415 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
12416 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
12417 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
12418 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
12419 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
12420 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
12423 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12424 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12425 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12428 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
12429 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
12430 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
12431 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12433 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12434 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12435 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12438 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
12439 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
12440 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
12441 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12443 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
12444 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12445 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12446 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12447 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12448 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12449 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12450 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12451 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12454 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12455 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
12456 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
12457 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
12458 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12460 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
12461 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
12462 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
12463 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
12464 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
12465 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
12467 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
12468 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
12471 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12472 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
12473 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12474 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
12475 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
12476 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12478 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
12479 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
12480 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
12481 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12483 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
12484 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12485 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12486 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12487 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12488 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12490 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
12491 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
12492 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
12493 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
12494 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
12495 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
12496 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
12499 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
12500 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
12501 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
12502 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12504 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12505 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
12506 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
12507 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
12508 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12509 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
12510 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
12511 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12512 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
12513 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
12515 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
12516 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
12517 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
12519 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
12520 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
12521 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
12523 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
12524 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12525 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
12526 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
12527 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
12528 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
12530 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
12531 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12532 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12533 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12534 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12535 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12537 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
12538 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
12539 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12541 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12542 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12543 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12544 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12545 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12548 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12549 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12550 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12551 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12552 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12553 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12555 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12556 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
12557 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
12558 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
12559 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12560 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12561 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12563 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
12564 only fetch the service descriptor once.
12565 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12566 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12567 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12568 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
12569 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
12570 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
12571 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12573 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12574 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12575 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12576 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12577 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12578 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12579 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12580 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12581 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12582 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12583 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12584 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12586 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12587 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
12588 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12589 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12590 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12591 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12594 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12595 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
12596 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
12597 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
12598 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12599 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12600 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12601 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12602 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12603 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12604 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12605 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12607 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12608 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
12609 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12610 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
12611 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
12612 Closes ticket 24109.
12613 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
12614 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12615 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
12616 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
12618 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12619 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12621 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
12622 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
12623 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
12624 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
12625 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
12626 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
12627 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
12628 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12629 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
12630 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
12631 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12633 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
12634 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
12635 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
12636 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12638 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12639 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
12640 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
12642 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
12643 function from the general code to handle channel state
12644 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
12645 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
12646 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
12647 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
12648 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
12649 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
12650 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
12651 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
12653 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
12654 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
12656 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
12657 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
12658 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
12659 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
12660 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12661 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
12662 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
12663 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
12664 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
12665 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
12666 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
12667 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
12669 o Deprecated features:
12670 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
12671 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
12672 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
12673 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
12674 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
12675 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
12679 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
12680 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
12681 section. Closes ticket 24254.
12682 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
12683 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
12684 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
12685 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
12686 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
12687 Closes ticket 18736.
12688 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
12689 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
12690 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
12691 Closes ticket 15645.
12692 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
12693 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
12694 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
12695 file. Closes ticket 21148.
12697 o Removed features:
12698 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
12699 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
12700 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
12701 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
12702 Closes ticket 21031.
12703 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
12704 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
12707 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
12708 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
12709 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
12710 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
12712 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12713 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12714 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12715 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12716 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12717 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12718 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12719 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12720 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12721 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12722 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12724 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12725 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12726 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12727 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12728 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12729 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12730 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12733 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12734 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12735 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12736 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12737 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12739 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12740 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12741 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12742 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12743 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12744 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12745 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12746 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12747 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12749 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12750 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12751 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12752 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12753 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12754 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12757 o Minor features (bridge):
12758 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12759 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12760 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12761 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12764 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12765 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12768 o Minor features (geoip):
12769 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12772 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12773 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12774 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12775 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12776 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12778 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12779 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12780 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12782 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12783 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12784 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12785 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12786 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12787 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12789 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12790 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12791 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12794 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12795 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12796 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12797 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12798 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12801 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
12802 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12803 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12804 to another of the releases coming out today.
12806 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12807 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12808 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12810 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12811 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12812 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12813 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12814 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12815 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12816 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12817 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12818 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12819 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12820 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12822 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12823 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12824 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12825 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12826 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12827 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12828 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12831 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12832 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12833 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12834 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12835 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12837 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12838 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12839 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12840 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12841 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12842 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12843 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12844 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12845 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12847 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12848 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12849 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12850 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12851 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12852 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12855 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12856 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12857 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12858 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12859 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12860 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12862 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12863 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12864 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12865 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12866 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12869 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12870 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12873 o Minor features (geoip):
12874 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12877 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12878 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12879 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12880 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12881 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12883 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12884 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12885 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12887 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12888 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12889 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12890 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12891 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12892 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12894 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12895 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12896 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12897 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12898 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12900 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12901 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12902 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12905 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
12906 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12907 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12908 to another of the releases coming out today.
12910 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12911 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12912 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12913 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12914 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12915 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12918 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12919 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12920 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12921 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12922 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12923 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12924 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12925 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12926 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12927 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12928 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12930 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12931 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12932 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12933 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12934 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12935 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12936 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12939 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12940 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12941 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12942 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12943 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12945 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12946 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12947 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12948 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12949 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12950 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12952 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12953 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12954 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12955 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12956 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12959 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12960 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12963 o Minor features (geoip):
12964 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12967 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12968 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12969 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12970 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12971 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12972 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12974 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12975 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12976 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12977 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12978 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12980 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12981 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12982 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12984 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12985 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12986 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12987 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12988 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12989 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12991 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12992 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12993 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12994 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12995 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12997 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12998 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12999 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13002 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
13003 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13004 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13005 to another of the releases coming out today.
13007 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13008 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
13009 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13011 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13012 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13013 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13014 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13015 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13016 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13017 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13018 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13019 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13020 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13021 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13022 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13023 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13024 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13025 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13028 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13029 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13030 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13031 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13032 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13034 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13035 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
13036 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
13037 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
13038 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
13041 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13042 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13043 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13044 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13045 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13048 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13049 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13052 o Minor features (geoip):
13053 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13056 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13057 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13058 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13061 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
13062 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13063 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13064 to another of the releases coming out today.
13066 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
13067 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
13068 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13070 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13071 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13072 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13073 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13074 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13075 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13076 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13077 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13078 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13079 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13080 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13081 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13082 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13083 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13084 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13087 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13088 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13089 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13090 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13091 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13092 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13094 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13095 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13096 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13097 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13098 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13101 o Minor features (geoip):
13102 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13106 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
13107 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13108 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13110 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
13111 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
13112 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13114 o Directory authority changes:
13115 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13116 Closes ticket 23910.
13117 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13118 Closes ticket 23592.
13120 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13121 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13122 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13123 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13124 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13126 o Minor features (geoip):
13127 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13130 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13131 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13132 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13133 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13134 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13135 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13136 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13137 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13138 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13140 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13141 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13142 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13143 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13144 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13145 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13146 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13147 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13148 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13151 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
13152 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13153 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13154 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13156 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13157 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13158 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13160 o Directory authority changes:
13161 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13162 Closes ticket 23910.
13163 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13164 Closes ticket 23592.
13166 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13167 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13168 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13169 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13171 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13172 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13173 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13174 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13175 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13177 o Minor features (geoip):
13178 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13182 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
13183 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13184 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13185 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13187 o Directory authority changes:
13188 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13189 Closes ticket 23910.
13190 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13191 Closes ticket 23592.
13193 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13194 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13195 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13196 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13198 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13199 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13200 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13201 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13202 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13204 o Minor features (geoip):
13205 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13208 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13209 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13210 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13211 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13212 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13213 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13214 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13215 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13218 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13219 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13220 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13222 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13223 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13224 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13225 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13226 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13227 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13228 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13231 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
13232 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13233 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13234 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13236 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
13237 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13238 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13240 o Directory authority changes:
13241 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13242 Closes ticket 23910.
13243 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13244 Closes ticket 23592.
13246 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13247 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13248 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13249 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13251 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13252 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13253 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13254 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13255 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13257 o Minor features (geoip):
13258 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13261 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13262 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13263 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13264 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13265 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13266 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13267 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13268 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13271 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13272 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13273 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13274 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13276 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13277 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13278 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13280 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13281 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13282 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13283 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13284 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13285 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13286 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13289 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
13290 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13291 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
13292 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
13293 a new directory authority, Bastet.
13295 o Directory authority changes:
13296 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13297 Closes ticket 23910.
13298 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13299 Closes ticket 23592.
13301 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13302 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13303 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13304 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13306 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13307 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13308 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13309 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13310 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13312 o Minor features (geoip):
13313 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13316 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13317 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
13318 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
13319 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
13321 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13322 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
13323 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
13326 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13327 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
13328 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
13330 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13331 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13332 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13333 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13335 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13336 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13337 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13339 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13340 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
13341 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
13345 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
13346 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13349 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13350 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13351 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13352 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13354 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13355 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
13356 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
13357 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
13359 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13360 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13361 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13362 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13363 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13366 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13369 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13370 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13371 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13374 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13375 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13376 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13377 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13378 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13379 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13380 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13381 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13382 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13384 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13385 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13386 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13387 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13388 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13389 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13390 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13391 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13392 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13395 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
13396 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13399 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13400 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13401 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13402 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13404 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13405 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13406 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13407 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13408 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13409 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13410 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13412 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13413 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13414 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13415 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13417 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13418 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13419 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13421 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13422 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13423 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13424 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13426 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13427 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13428 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13429 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13430 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13432 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13433 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13434 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13435 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13437 o Minor features (geoip):
13438 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13441 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13442 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13443 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13444 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13446 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13447 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13448 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13449 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
13450 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13451 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
13452 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
13453 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13455 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13456 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
13457 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13459 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13460 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13461 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13464 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13465 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13466 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13467 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
13468 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13470 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13471 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13472 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13473 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13474 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13475 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13477 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13478 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13479 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13480 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13481 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13482 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13483 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13484 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13485 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13487 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13488 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13489 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13490 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13492 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13493 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13494 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13496 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13497 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13498 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13499 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13500 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13502 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13503 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
13504 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
13507 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13508 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13509 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13510 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13511 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13513 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13514 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13515 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13516 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13517 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13518 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13519 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13520 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13521 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13524 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
13525 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
13528 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13529 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13530 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13531 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13533 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13534 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13535 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13536 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13539 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13542 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13543 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13544 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13546 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13547 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13548 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13549 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13550 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13552 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13553 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13554 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13555 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13557 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13558 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13559 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13561 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13562 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13563 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13564 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13567 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
13568 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13570 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
13571 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
13572 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
13573 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
13574 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
13575 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
13576 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
13578 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
13579 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
13580 disabled. For more information, see
13581 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13583 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13584 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13585 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13586 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13587 with the 0.2.9 series.
13589 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
13590 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13592 o New dependencies:
13593 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
13594 pkg-config tool at build time.
13596 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
13597 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
13598 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
13599 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13600 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
13602 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
13603 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13604 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13605 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13606 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13607 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13608 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13609 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13610 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13612 o Major features (directory protocol):
13613 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
13614 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
13615 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
13616 now request these documents when available. When both client and
13617 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
13618 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
13619 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
13620 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
13621 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
13622 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
13623 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
13624 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
13625 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
13626 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
13627 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
13628 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
13629 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
13631 o Major features (experimental):
13632 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
13633 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
13634 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
13635 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
13636 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
13637 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
13638 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
13640 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
13641 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
13642 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
13643 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
13644 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
13645 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
13648 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
13649 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
13650 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
13651 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
13652 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
13653 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
13654 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
13655 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
13656 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
13657 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
13658 multiples of 10000.
13660 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13661 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13662 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13663 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13664 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13665 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13666 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13669 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
13670 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13671 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13672 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13673 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13674 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13676 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
13677 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
13678 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
13679 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
13680 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
13681 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
13682 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
13683 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
13684 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13685 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
13686 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
13687 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
13688 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
13689 Otherwise it is at info.
13691 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13692 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13693 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13694 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13695 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13696 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13697 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13699 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
13700 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13701 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13702 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13704 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
13705 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13706 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13707 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13708 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13710 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
13711 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13712 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13713 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13714 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13715 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13716 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13719 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
13720 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13721 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13722 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13723 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13724 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13725 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13726 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13727 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13728 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13729 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13730 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13731 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13734 o Minor features (security, windows):
13735 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13736 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13737 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13738 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13739 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13741 o Minor features (bridge authority):
13742 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
13743 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
13745 o Minor features (code style):
13746 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13747 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13748 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13750 o Minor features (config options):
13751 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
13752 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
13753 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
13754 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
13755 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
13756 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
13757 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
13758 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
13760 o Minor features (controller):
13761 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
13762 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
13764 o Minor features (defaults):
13765 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
13766 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
13767 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
13768 can. Closes ticket 21407.
13769 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
13770 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
13771 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
13772 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
13773 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
13774 Closes ticket 21641.
13776 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13777 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
13778 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
13779 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
13782 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13783 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
13784 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
13785 attempt for bug 23105.
13786 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
13787 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
13788 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
13789 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
13790 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
13791 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
13792 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
13794 o Minor features (directory authority):
13795 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
13796 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
13797 Closes ticket 22348.
13799 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
13800 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
13801 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
13802 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
13803 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
13806 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13807 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
13808 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
13809 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13810 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13811 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13812 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13814 o Minor features (geoip):
13815 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13818 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
13819 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
13820 introduction points than specified in
13821 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
13822 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
13823 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
13824 21594; closes ticket 21622.
13825 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
13826 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
13827 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
13828 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
13830 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13831 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
13832 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
13833 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
13834 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
13835 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
13836 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
13837 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
13838 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
13839 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
13841 o Minor features (logging):
13842 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
13843 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
13844 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
13845 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
13848 o Minor features (performance):
13849 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
13850 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
13852 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
13853 speed some controller functions.
13855 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
13856 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
13857 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
13858 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
13860 o Minor features (relay, performance):
13861 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
13862 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
13863 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
13864 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
13865 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
13868 o Minor features (safety):
13869 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
13870 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
13871 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
13874 o Minor features (testing):
13875 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
13877 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
13878 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
13879 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
13880 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
13881 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
13882 on. Closes ticket 21439.
13883 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
13884 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
13885 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
13886 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
13887 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
13888 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
13889 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
13890 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
13891 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
13892 21507. Partially implements 21470.
13894 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
13895 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13896 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13897 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13899 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13900 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
13901 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
13902 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
13905 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
13906 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
13907 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13908 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13909 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13910 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13911 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13912 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13915 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13916 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13917 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13919 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
13920 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
13921 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
13922 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
13923 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
13924 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13926 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13927 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13928 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13930 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
13931 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
13932 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
13933 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
13934 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
13935 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
13936 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13937 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
13938 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
13939 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
13940 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
13941 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
13942 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
13943 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
13945 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13946 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13947 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13948 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13949 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13950 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
13951 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13952 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
13953 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
13954 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
13955 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
13956 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13958 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13959 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13960 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13962 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
13963 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13964 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13965 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13966 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13967 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13969 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
13970 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
13971 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
13972 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
13973 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13974 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13975 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13976 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13977 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13978 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13979 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13980 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13982 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13983 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13984 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13985 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13986 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13987 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13988 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13989 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13991 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13992 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13993 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13994 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
13995 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
13996 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
13998 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
13999 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
14000 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
14003 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
14004 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
14005 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
14006 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
14007 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
14009 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14010 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
14011 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14012 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
14013 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
14014 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14015 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
14016 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14017 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
14018 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
14019 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14021 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
14022 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
14023 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
14024 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14026 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14027 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
14028 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
14029 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
14030 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
14031 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
14032 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
14033 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
14034 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
14035 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
14036 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14037 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
14038 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
14039 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14041 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
14042 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14043 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14044 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14045 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14046 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14047 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14049 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14050 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14051 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14052 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14053 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14054 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14055 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14057 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14058 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
14059 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
14060 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
14061 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
14062 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
14063 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
14064 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
14065 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
14066 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
14067 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14068 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
14069 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
14071 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
14072 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
14073 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
14074 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
14076 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
14077 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
14078 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
14080 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
14081 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
14082 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
14083 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14085 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14086 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
14087 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
14088 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14090 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14091 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
14092 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14093 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14094 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14095 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14096 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
14097 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
14098 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
14100 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
14101 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
14102 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
14103 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
14104 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
14105 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
14106 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
14109 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
14110 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
14111 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
14112 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
14113 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
14114 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
14116 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14117 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14118 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14119 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
14120 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
14121 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14122 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
14123 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14124 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
14125 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
14126 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
14127 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
14128 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14129 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14130 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
14131 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
14134 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
14135 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14136 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14137 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14138 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14140 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
14141 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14142 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14143 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14144 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14145 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14146 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14148 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
14149 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
14150 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14152 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14153 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
14154 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
14155 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
14156 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
14157 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
14158 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
14159 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
14160 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
14161 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
14162 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
14163 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
14165 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
14166 Resolves ticket 22213.
14167 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
14168 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
14169 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
14170 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
14171 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
14172 types. Closes ticket 21651.
14173 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
14174 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
14177 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
14179 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
14180 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
14182 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
14183 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
14184 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
14186 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
14188 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
14189 Closes ticket 21873.
14190 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
14191 Closes ticket 21151.
14192 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
14193 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
14195 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
14196 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14197 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
14198 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
14200 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
14201 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
14202 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14203 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
14204 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
14205 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
14206 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
14207 default behavior is now unavailable.
14208 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
14209 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
14210 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
14211 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
14212 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
14213 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
14214 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
14216 o Removed features (tools):
14217 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
14218 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
14219 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
14220 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
14221 required. Closes ticket 21842.
14224 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
14225 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
14226 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
14227 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
14229 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14230 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14231 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14232 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14233 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14234 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14235 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14236 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14237 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14239 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14240 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14241 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14242 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14244 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14245 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14246 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14247 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14248 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14250 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14251 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14254 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14255 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14256 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14257 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14259 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14260 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
14261 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14262 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
14263 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14264 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
14265 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
14266 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
14269 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14270 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14271 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14274 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14275 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14276 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14277 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14278 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14279 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14281 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14282 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14283 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14284 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14286 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14287 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14288 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14290 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
14291 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14292 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14295 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
14296 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
14297 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
14298 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
14299 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
14302 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
14305 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14306 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
14307 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
14308 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
14309 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
14310 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
14312 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14313 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
14314 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
14315 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14317 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14318 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
14319 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
14320 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14322 o Minor features (geoip):
14323 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14326 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14327 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14328 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14329 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14330 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14332 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14333 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14334 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14335 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14336 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14338 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14339 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14340 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14341 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14342 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14343 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14344 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14345 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14346 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14349 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
14350 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
14351 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14352 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14353 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
14355 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
14356 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14357 bugfixes described below.
14359 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14360 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14361 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
14362 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
14363 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14364 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14365 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14366 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14369 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14370 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14371 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14372 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14373 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14374 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14375 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14378 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14379 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
14380 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
14381 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
14382 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
14383 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
14384 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
14385 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14386 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
14387 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
14388 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
14389 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
14390 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
14393 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14394 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
14395 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
14398 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14399 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14400 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14401 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14402 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14404 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14405 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
14406 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14408 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14409 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14410 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14412 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14413 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14414 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14415 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14416 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14417 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14418 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14420 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
14422 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14423 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14424 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14427 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
14428 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14429 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14430 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14431 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14432 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14434 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
14435 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14436 bugfixes described below.
14438 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14439 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14440 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14441 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14442 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14445 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14446 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14447 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14448 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14449 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14450 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14451 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14454 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14455 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14456 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14457 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14458 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14460 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14461 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
14462 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14463 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14464 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14465 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14466 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14468 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
14469 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
14470 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
14471 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
14472 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
14474 o Minor features (geoip):
14475 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14478 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
14479 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14480 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14481 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14483 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14484 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14485 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14487 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14488 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14489 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14490 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14491 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14494 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
14495 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14496 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14497 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14498 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14500 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
14501 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14502 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14503 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14504 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14505 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14507 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14508 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14509 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14510 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14513 o Minor features (geoip):
14514 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14517 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14518 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14519 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14520 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14521 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14523 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14524 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14525 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14527 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
14528 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14529 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14530 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14531 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14532 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14534 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14535 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14536 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14537 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14540 o Minor features (geoip):
14541 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14544 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14545 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14546 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14549 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
14550 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14551 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14552 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14553 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14554 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14556 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14557 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14558 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14559 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14562 o Minor features (geoip):
14563 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14566 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14567 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14568 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14570 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
14571 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14572 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14573 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14574 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14575 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14577 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14578 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14579 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14580 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14583 o Minor features (geoip):
14584 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14587 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14588 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14589 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14591 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
14592 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14593 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14594 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14595 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14596 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14598 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14599 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14600 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14601 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14604 o Minor features (geoip):
14605 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14608 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14609 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14610 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14613 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
14614 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
14615 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
14616 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
14617 clients are not affected.
14619 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
14620 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
14621 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
14622 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
14623 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
14624 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14627 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14630 o Minor features (future-proofing):
14631 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
14632 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14633 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14634 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14635 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14636 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14638 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14639 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14640 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14641 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14642 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14646 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
14647 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
14649 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
14650 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
14651 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
14652 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
14653 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
14654 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
14657 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
14658 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
14660 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
14661 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
14662 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
14663 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
14664 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
14666 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
14667 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
14669 o Major features (directory authority, security):
14670 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
14671 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
14672 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
14674 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
14675 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
14676 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
14677 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
14678 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
14681 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
14682 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
14683 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
14684 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
14685 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
14686 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
14687 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
14688 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
14691 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
14692 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
14693 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
14694 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
14695 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
14696 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
14697 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
14698 15056; part of proposal 220.
14699 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
14700 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
14701 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
14702 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
14703 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
14704 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
14705 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
14706 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
14707 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
14710 o Major features (security):
14711 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
14712 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
14713 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
14714 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
14715 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
14716 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
14718 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
14719 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
14720 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
14721 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
14722 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
14723 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
14724 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
14725 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
14726 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
14727 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
14728 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14730 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
14731 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14732 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14733 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14735 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
14736 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14737 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14738 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14741 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
14742 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
14743 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14745 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
14746 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14747 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14748 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14749 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14750 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14751 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14753 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
14754 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14755 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14756 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14757 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14758 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14759 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14760 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
14761 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
14762 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
14763 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
14764 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
14765 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
14766 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
14767 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
14769 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
14770 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
14771 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
14772 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
14773 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14775 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
14776 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14777 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
14778 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
14779 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
14780 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
14781 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14783 o Minor feature (client):
14784 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
14785 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
14787 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
14788 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
14789 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
14790 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
14792 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
14793 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
14794 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
14796 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
14797 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
14798 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
14799 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
14800 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
14802 o Minor features (controller):
14803 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
14804 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
14805 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
14806 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
14809 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
14810 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
14811 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
14812 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
14813 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
14814 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
14815 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
14816 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
14817 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
14818 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
14820 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
14821 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
14822 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
14825 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14826 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14827 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14829 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14830 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14831 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14833 o Minor features (directory authority):
14834 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
14835 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
14836 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
14837 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
14838 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
14840 o Minor features (directory cache):
14841 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
14842 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
14845 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
14846 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
14847 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
14848 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
14850 o Minor features (entry guards):
14851 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
14852 break regression tests.
14853 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
14854 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
14856 o Minor features (fallback directories):
14857 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
14858 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
14859 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
14860 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
14861 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
14862 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
14863 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
14864 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
14865 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
14866 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
14867 Closes ticket 20539.
14868 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
14869 Closes ticket 20822.
14870 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
14872 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
14873 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
14874 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
14875 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
14876 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
14878 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
14879 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
14880 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
14881 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
14882 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
14885 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
14886 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
14887 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
14888 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
14890 o Minor features (geoip):
14891 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14894 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
14895 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14898 o Minor features (infrastructure):
14899 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
14900 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
14902 o Minor features (linting):
14903 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
14904 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
14906 o Minor features (logging):
14907 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
14908 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
14910 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
14911 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14912 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14914 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14915 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14917 o Minor features (relay):
14918 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
14919 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
14920 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
14921 Written by Michael Sonntag.
14923 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
14924 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
14925 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
14928 o Minor features (testing):
14929 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
14930 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
14931 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
14933 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
14934 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
14935 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
14936 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
14937 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
14938 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
14939 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14940 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14941 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14943 o Minor bugfix (logging):
14944 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
14945 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
14946 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
14947 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
14950 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
14951 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
14952 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
14953 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
14955 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14956 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
14957 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
14960 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
14961 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
14962 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
14964 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14965 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
14966 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
14967 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14968 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
14969 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
14970 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
14972 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14973 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14974 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14976 o Minor bugfixes (config):
14977 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
14978 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
14979 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
14980 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14982 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14983 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
14984 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14985 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
14986 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
14987 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
14989 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
14990 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
14991 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
14992 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
14993 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
14994 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
14995 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
14998 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
14999 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
15000 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
15001 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
15002 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
15004 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
15005 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
15006 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
15007 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15009 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
15010 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
15011 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
15012 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
15013 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15015 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
15016 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
15017 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
15018 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
15019 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15021 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
15022 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
15023 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
15024 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15025 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
15026 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
15027 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
15030 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
15031 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
15032 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
15033 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
15034 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15035 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
15036 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
15037 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
15038 on all recent tor versions.
15040 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15041 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
15042 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
15044 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
15045 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
15046 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15048 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15049 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
15050 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
15051 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
15052 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15053 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
15054 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15055 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
15056 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15058 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15059 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
15060 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
15061 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
15062 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15063 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
15064 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
15065 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15066 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
15067 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
15068 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
15071 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15072 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
15073 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
15074 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15075 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
15076 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
15077 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
15078 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15079 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
15080 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
15081 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
15084 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
15085 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
15086 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15087 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
15088 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
15089 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
15090 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
15091 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
15093 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
15094 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
15095 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
15098 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
15099 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
15100 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15102 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15103 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
15104 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
15105 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
15108 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
15109 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15110 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15111 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15113 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15114 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15116 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15117 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
15118 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
15120 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
15121 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
15122 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
15123 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
15125 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15126 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
15127 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
15128 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
15129 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15130 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
15131 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
15132 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15134 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
15135 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15136 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15137 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15138 Patch by "junglefowl".
15140 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15141 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
15142 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
15143 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
15144 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
15146 o Minor bugfixes (util):
15147 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
15148 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
15149 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
15150 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
15152 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
15153 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
15154 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
15157 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
15158 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
15159 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
15160 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
15162 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15163 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
15164 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
15165 Closes ticket 19858.
15166 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
15167 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
15168 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
15169 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
15170 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
15171 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
15172 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
15173 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
15174 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
15175 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
15176 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15177 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
15178 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
15179 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
15180 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
15181 redundant with the similar structures used in the
15182 channel abstraction.
15183 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
15184 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
15185 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
15186 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15187 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
15188 replaced with code automatically generated by the
15191 o Documentation (formatting):
15192 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
15193 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
15195 o Documentation (man page):
15196 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
15197 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
15200 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
15201 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
15203 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
15204 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
15205 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
15207 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
15208 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
15209 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
15210 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15211 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
15212 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
15213 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
15214 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
15215 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
15216 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
15218 o Removed features:
15219 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
15220 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
15221 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
15223 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
15224 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
15225 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
15228 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
15229 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
15230 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
15232 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
15233 from "overcaffeinated".
15234 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
15235 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
15238 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
15239 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
15240 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
15241 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15242 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
15245 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15246 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
15247 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15249 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15250 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15251 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15252 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15253 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15254 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15255 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15257 o Minor features (geoip):
15258 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15262 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
15263 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15264 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
15265 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15268 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15269 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15270 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15272 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15273 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15275 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15276 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15277 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15279 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15280 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15281 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15284 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15285 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15286 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15287 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15288 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15289 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15290 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15291 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15292 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15294 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15295 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15296 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15297 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15298 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15299 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15300 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15301 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15302 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15303 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15304 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15305 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15306 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15308 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15309 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15310 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15311 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15312 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15314 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15315 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15316 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15318 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15319 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15320 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15321 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15322 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15323 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15324 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15327 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15328 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15329 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15330 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15331 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15332 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15333 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15335 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15336 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15337 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15338 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15341 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15342 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15343 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15344 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15346 o Minor features (geoip):
15347 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15351 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
15352 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15353 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
15354 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15357 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15358 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15359 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15361 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15362 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15364 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15365 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15366 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15368 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15369 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15370 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15373 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15374 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15375 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15376 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15377 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15378 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15379 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15380 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15381 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15383 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15384 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15385 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15386 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15387 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15388 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15389 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15390 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15391 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15393 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15394 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15395 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15396 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15397 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15399 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15400 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15401 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15402 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15403 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15406 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15407 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15408 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15409 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15410 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15412 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15413 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15414 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15416 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15417 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15418 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15419 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15420 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15421 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15424 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15425 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15426 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15427 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15428 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15429 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15430 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15433 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15434 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15435 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15436 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15437 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15438 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15439 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15441 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15442 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15443 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15444 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15447 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15448 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15449 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15450 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15452 o Minor features (geoip):
15453 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15456 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15457 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15458 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15461 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
15462 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15463 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
15464 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15467 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15468 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
15469 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15471 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15472 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15474 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15475 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15476 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15478 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15479 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15480 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15483 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15484 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15485 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15486 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15487 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15488 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15489 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15490 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15491 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15493 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15494 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15495 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15496 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15497 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15498 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15499 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15500 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15501 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15503 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15504 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15505 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15506 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15507 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15509 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15510 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15511 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15512 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15513 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15516 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15517 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15518 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15519 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15520 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15522 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15523 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15524 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15526 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15527 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15528 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15529 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15530 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15531 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15534 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15535 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15536 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15537 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15538 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15539 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15540 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15543 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15544 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15545 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15546 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15547 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15548 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15549 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15551 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15552 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15553 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15554 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15557 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15558 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15559 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15560 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15562 o Minor features (geoip):
15563 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15566 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15567 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15568 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15570 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
15571 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15572 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15573 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15574 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15575 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15577 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15578 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15579 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15583 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
15584 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15585 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
15586 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15589 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
15590 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15591 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15593 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15594 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15596 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15597 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15598 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15600 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15601 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15602 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15605 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15606 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15607 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15608 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15609 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15610 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15611 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15612 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15613 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15615 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15616 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15617 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15618 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15619 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15620 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15621 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15622 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15623 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15625 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15626 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15627 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15628 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15629 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15632 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15633 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15634 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15635 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15636 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15638 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15639 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15640 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15642 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15643 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15644 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15645 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15646 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15647 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15650 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15651 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15652 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15653 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15654 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15655 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15656 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15659 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15660 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15661 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15662 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15663 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15664 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15665 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15667 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15668 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15669 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15670 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15673 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15674 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15675 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15676 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15678 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15679 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
15680 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
15681 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
15683 o Minor features (geoip):
15684 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15687 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15688 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15689 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15691 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15692 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15693 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15697 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
15698 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
15699 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
15700 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
15702 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
15703 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
15704 least January of 2020.
15706 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15707 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15708 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15709 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15712 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15713 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15714 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15715 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15716 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15717 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15718 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15720 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15721 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15722 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15723 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15724 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15725 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15726 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15728 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15729 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15730 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15732 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15733 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15734 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15736 o Minor features (geoip):
15737 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15740 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15741 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15742 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15744 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15745 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15747 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15748 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15749 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15751 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15752 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15753 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15754 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15755 Patch by "junglefowl".
15758 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
15759 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15760 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15761 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15762 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15763 version should upgrade.
15765 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
15766 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
15768 o Major bugfixes (security):
15769 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15770 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
15771 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
15772 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
15773 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
15774 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15776 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
15777 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15778 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15779 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15780 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15781 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15782 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15783 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15784 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15785 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15786 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15788 o Minor features (geoip):
15789 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15792 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15793 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15794 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15795 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15797 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15798 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15801 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
15802 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
15803 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15804 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15805 become available for their systems.
15807 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
15810 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
15811 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
15813 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15814 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15815 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15816 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15817 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15818 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15819 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15820 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15821 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15823 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15824 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15825 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15826 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15827 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15829 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
15830 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15834 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
15835 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
15837 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
15838 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
15839 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
15840 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
15841 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
15842 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
15843 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
15844 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
15846 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
15848 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
15849 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15850 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15851 become available for their systems.
15853 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
15854 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
15856 o New system requirements:
15857 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
15858 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
15859 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
15860 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
15861 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
15862 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
15863 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
15864 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
15865 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
15866 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
15867 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
15869 o Deprecated features:
15870 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
15871 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
15872 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
15873 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
15874 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
15875 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
15876 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
15877 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
15878 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
15879 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
15880 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15881 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15882 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
15883 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
15884 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
15885 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
15886 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
15887 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
15888 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
15889 and TransListenAddress.
15891 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15892 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15893 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15894 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15895 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15896 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15897 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15898 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15899 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15901 o Major features (build, hardening):
15902 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
15903 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
15904 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
15905 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
15906 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
15907 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
15908 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
15909 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
15910 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
15912 o Major features (circuit building, security):
15913 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
15914 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
15915 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
15917 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
15918 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
15920 o Major features (compilation):
15921 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
15922 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
15923 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
15924 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
15926 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
15927 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
15928 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
15930 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
15931 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
15932 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
15933 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
15934 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
15935 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
15936 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
15937 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
15939 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
15940 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
15941 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
15942 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
15943 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
15944 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
15945 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
15947 o Major features (resource management):
15948 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
15949 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
15950 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
15951 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
15952 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
15953 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
15955 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
15956 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
15957 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
15958 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
15959 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
15960 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
15961 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
15962 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
15963 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
15964 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
15965 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
15967 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
15968 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
15969 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
15970 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
15971 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
15972 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
15973 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
15974 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
15975 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
15976 part of proposal 264.
15978 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
15979 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
15980 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
15981 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
15983 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
15984 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
15985 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
15986 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
15987 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
15988 download, stop waiting for certificates.
15989 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
15990 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
15991 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
15993 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
15994 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
15995 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
15997 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
15998 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
15999 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
16000 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
16001 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
16002 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
16003 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16005 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16006 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
16007 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
16008 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
16009 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
16010 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
16011 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
16012 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
16013 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
16014 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16016 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
16017 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
16018 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
16019 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
16020 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
16021 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16023 o Minor features (port flags):
16024 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
16025 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
16026 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
16027 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
16028 18693; patch by "teor".
16030 o Minor features (build, hardening):
16031 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
16032 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
16033 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
16034 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
16035 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
16036 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
16037 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
16038 Closes ticket 18895.
16040 o Minor features (client, directory):
16041 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
16042 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
16043 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
16046 o Minor features (code safety):
16047 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
16048 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
16049 patch from "U+039b".
16051 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
16052 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
16055 o Minor features (config):
16056 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
16057 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
16059 o Minor features (controller):
16060 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
16061 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
16062 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
16063 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
16064 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
16065 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
16066 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
16067 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
16069 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
16070 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
16071 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
16074 o Minor features (directory authority):
16075 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
16076 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
16077 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
16078 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
16079 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
16080 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
16081 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
16082 Implements ticket 18624.
16083 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
16084 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
16085 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
16088 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
16089 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
16090 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
16091 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
16092 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
16094 o Minor features (hidden service):
16095 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
16096 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
16097 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
16100 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
16101 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
16102 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
16103 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
16104 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
16105 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
16106 Closes ticket 18365.
16107 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
16108 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
16109 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
16110 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
16112 o Minor features (logging):
16113 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
16114 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
16115 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
16116 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
16117 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16118 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
16119 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
16120 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
16121 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
16122 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
16124 o Minor features (performance):
16125 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
16126 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
16127 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
16128 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
16129 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
16130 Closes ticket 18815.
16132 o Minor features (relay, usability):
16133 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
16134 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
16135 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
16136 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
16139 o Minor features (security, TLS):
16140 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
16141 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
16142 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
16143 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
16145 o Minor features (testing):
16146 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
16147 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
16148 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
16149 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
16150 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
16151 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
16152 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
16153 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
16154 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
16155 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
16157 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
16158 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
16159 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
16160 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
16161 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
16162 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
16163 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
16165 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
16166 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
16167 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
16168 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
16169 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
16170 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
16171 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
16172 assertion as a test failure.
16173 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
16175 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
16176 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
16177 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
16178 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
16179 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
16180 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
16181 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
16182 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
16183 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
16185 o Minor features (Tor2web):
16186 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
16187 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
16188 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
16190 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16191 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
16192 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
16193 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
16194 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
16196 o Minor features (user interface):
16197 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
16198 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
16199 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
16200 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
16203 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
16204 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
16205 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
16206 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
16209 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
16210 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
16211 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
16212 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
16213 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
16214 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
16216 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16217 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
16218 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
16219 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16221 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
16222 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
16223 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
16224 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
16225 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
16227 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
16228 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
16229 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
16230 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
16231 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
16233 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16234 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
16235 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
16236 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
16237 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16239 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
16240 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
16241 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16243 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
16244 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
16245 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16247 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
16248 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
16249 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
16252 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
16253 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
16254 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16256 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16257 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
16258 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
16260 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
16261 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
16262 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16263 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
16264 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
16265 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
16266 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
16267 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
16269 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16270 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
16271 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
16272 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
16274 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16275 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
16276 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
16277 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16278 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
16279 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
16280 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
16281 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16282 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
16283 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
16285 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
16286 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
16287 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
16288 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16290 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
16291 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
16292 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
16293 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
16296 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
16297 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
16298 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
16299 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
16301 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
16302 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
16305 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16306 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
16307 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
16308 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
16310 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
16311 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
16313 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
16314 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
16315 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16316 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
16317 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
16319 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
16320 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
16321 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16323 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
16324 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
16325 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
16327 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16328 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
16329 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
16330 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
16331 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
16332 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16334 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16335 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
16336 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
16338 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
16339 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16340 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
16341 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
16342 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
16343 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
16344 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
16346 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16347 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
16348 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16349 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
16350 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16351 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
16352 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16353 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
16354 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
16355 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
16356 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
16357 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
16358 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16359 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
16360 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
16363 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
16364 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
16365 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
16366 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
16367 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
16368 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16370 o Minor bugfixes (options):
16371 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
16372 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
16374 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
16375 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
16376 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
16379 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16380 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
16381 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16382 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
16383 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
16384 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16386 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16387 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
16388 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
16389 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
16390 patch from "cypherpunks".
16391 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
16392 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16393 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
16394 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16395 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
16396 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
16397 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
16398 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
16399 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16400 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
16401 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
16403 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
16404 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
16406 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
16407 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
16408 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16409 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
16410 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
16413 o Minor bugfixes (time):
16414 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
16415 bugfix on all released tor versions.
16416 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
16417 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
16418 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
16419 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16421 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
16422 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
16423 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
16424 19678. Patch by teor.
16426 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16427 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
16428 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
16429 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
16430 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
16432 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
16433 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16435 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16436 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
16438 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
16439 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16440 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
16441 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
16444 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
16445 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
16446 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
16447 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
16448 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
16449 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
16450 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
16451 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
16452 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
16453 tickets 19287 and 19290.
16454 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
16455 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16456 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
16457 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
16458 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16459 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
16460 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
16461 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
16463 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
16464 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
16465 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
16466 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
16469 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
16470 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
16472 o Removed features:
16473 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
16474 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
16475 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
16476 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
16477 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
16478 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
16479 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
16482 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
16483 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
16484 command-line options to enable them.
16485 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
16486 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
16489 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
16490 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
16491 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
16492 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
16495 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16496 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
16497 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
16498 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
16499 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
16500 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
16503 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16504 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16505 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16508 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
16509 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
16510 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
16511 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
16513 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16514 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
16515 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
16516 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16519 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16520 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
16521 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
16522 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16525 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
16526 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
16527 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
16530 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16531 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16532 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16534 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16535 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16536 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16538 o Minor features (geoip):
16539 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16543 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
16544 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
16545 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
16546 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
16547 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
16550 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16551 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16552 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16553 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16554 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16555 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16556 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16557 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16558 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16560 o Minor features (geoip):
16561 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16565 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
16566 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
16567 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
16568 who select public relays as their bridges.
16570 o Major bugfixes (crash):
16571 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16572 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16573 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16574 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16575 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16577 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
16578 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16579 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16580 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16581 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16584 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16585 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
16586 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16588 o Minor features (geoip):
16589 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16593 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
16594 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
16595 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
16596 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16597 encouraged to upgrade.
16599 o Directory authority changes:
16600 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16601 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16603 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
16604 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16605 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16606 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16607 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16608 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16610 o Minor features (geoip):
16611 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16614 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16615 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16616 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16619 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16620 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16621 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16622 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16625 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
16627 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16629 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
16630 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
16631 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
16632 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
16633 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
16634 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16636 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
16638 o New system requirements:
16639 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
16640 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
16641 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
16643 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
16644 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
16645 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
16646 longer runs with, these versions.
16647 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
16648 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
16649 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
16650 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
16651 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
16653 o Directory authority changes:
16654 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16655 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16657 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16659 o Major features (directory system):
16660 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
16661 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
16662 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
16663 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
16664 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
16665 gsathya, and karsten.
16666 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
16667 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
16668 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
16669 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
16670 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
16672 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
16673 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
16674 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
16675 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
16676 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
16677 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
16678 mikeperry and teor.
16680 o Major features (security, Linux):
16681 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
16682 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
16683 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
16684 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
16685 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
16687 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
16688 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
16689 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
16690 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
16691 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
16692 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
16693 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
16695 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
16696 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
16699 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
16700 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16701 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16703 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
16704 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
16705 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
16706 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
16707 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
16709 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
16710 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
16711 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
16712 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16713 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
16714 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
16715 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
16716 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
16717 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
16718 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16720 o Major bugfixes (key management):
16721 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16722 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16723 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16724 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16725 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16726 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16729 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
16730 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16731 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16732 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16733 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16735 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
16736 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
16737 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
16738 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
16739 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
16740 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
16741 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
16742 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
16743 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16745 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
16746 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16747 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16748 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16749 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16751 o Major bugfixes (testing):
16752 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
16753 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16755 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
16756 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
16757 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
16758 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16760 o Minor features (accounting):
16761 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
16762 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
16763 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
16764 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
16766 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
16767 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16768 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16769 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16770 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
16771 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
16772 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
16775 o Minor features (build):
16776 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
16777 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
16778 Steven Chamberlain.
16779 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
16780 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
16781 patch from "cypherpunks".
16782 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16783 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
16784 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
16785 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
16786 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
16787 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
16788 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16789 Patch from intrigeri.
16791 o Minor features (clients):
16792 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
16793 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
16794 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
16796 o Minor features (controller):
16797 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
16798 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
16799 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
16801 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
16802 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
16803 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
16804 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
16805 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
16807 o Minor features (crypto):
16808 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
16809 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
16811 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
16812 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
16813 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16814 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
16815 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
16817 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
16818 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
16819 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
16820 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
16822 o Minor features (directory downloads):
16823 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
16824 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
16825 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
16826 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
16827 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
16828 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
16829 17864; patch by teor.
16831 o Minor features (geoip):
16832 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16835 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
16836 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
16837 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
16838 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
16839 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
16841 o Minor features (IPv6):
16842 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
16843 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
16844 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
16845 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
16846 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
16847 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
16848 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
16849 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
16850 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
16851 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
16852 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
16853 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
16855 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
16856 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
16857 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
16858 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
16859 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
16860 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
16861 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
16862 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
16863 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
16864 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16866 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16867 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
16868 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
16869 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
16870 while fixing 18548.
16872 o Minor features (logging):
16873 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
16874 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
16875 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
16876 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
16879 o Minor features (portability):
16880 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
16881 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
16883 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
16884 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
16885 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
16886 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
16887 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
16889 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
16890 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
16891 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
16892 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
16893 Resolves ticket 17951.
16895 o Minor features (replay cache):
16896 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
16897 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
16899 o Minor features (robustness):
16900 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
16901 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
16902 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
16904 o Minor features (security, clock):
16905 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
16906 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
16907 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
16908 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
16910 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
16911 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
16912 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
16913 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
16914 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
16915 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
16917 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
16918 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16919 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16920 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16922 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
16923 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
16924 Implements ticket 17026.
16925 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
16926 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
16927 Implements feature 17986.
16928 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
16929 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
16930 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
16932 o Minor features (security, RNG):
16933 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
16934 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
16935 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
16936 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
16937 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
16938 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
16939 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
16940 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
16941 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
16942 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
16945 o Minor features (security, win32):
16946 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
16947 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
16950 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16951 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
16952 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
16953 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
16954 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
16955 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
16956 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
16959 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
16960 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
16961 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
16962 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
16963 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16964 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
16965 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
16966 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
16967 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
16968 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
16969 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16970 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
16971 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
16972 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16974 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
16975 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
16976 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
16977 from "unixninja92".
16979 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
16980 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
16981 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
16984 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16985 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
16986 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16988 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16989 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
16990 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
16991 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16992 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
16993 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
16995 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
16996 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
16998 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
16999 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
17000 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
17001 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
17002 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
17004 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
17005 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17006 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
17007 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
17008 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17009 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
17011 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
17012 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
17013 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
17014 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
17015 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17016 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
17017 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
17018 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17019 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
17020 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17021 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
17023 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
17024 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
17027 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
17028 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
17029 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
17030 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
17031 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17033 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17034 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
17035 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
17036 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
17037 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
17038 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17039 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
17040 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
17042 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
17044 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
17045 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
17046 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
17048 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
17049 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
17050 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17052 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
17053 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
17054 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17056 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
17057 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
17058 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
17059 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
17061 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
17062 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
17063 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
17064 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
17065 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17067 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
17068 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
17069 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
17071 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
17072 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
17073 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
17074 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
17075 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
17076 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17077 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
17078 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
17079 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
17081 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
17082 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
17083 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
17084 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
17087 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
17088 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
17089 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
17090 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
17091 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17093 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17094 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
17095 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
17096 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
17097 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
17098 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
17099 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
17100 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
17102 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
17103 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
17104 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
17105 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
17106 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
17107 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
17108 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
17109 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
17110 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
17113 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
17114 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
17115 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
17116 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17118 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
17119 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
17120 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
17122 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17123 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
17124 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17126 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17127 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
17128 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
17129 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
17130 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
17131 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
17132 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
17133 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17134 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
17135 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
17136 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17137 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
17138 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
17139 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17140 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
17141 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17142 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
17143 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
17144 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
17146 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17147 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
17148 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
17149 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
17150 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
17152 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
17153 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17154 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
17155 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
17156 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
17157 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
17158 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
17159 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
17160 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
17161 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17162 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
17163 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
17166 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
17167 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
17168 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
17169 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
17171 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
17172 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17173 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
17176 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17177 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
17178 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
17179 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17181 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
17182 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
17183 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
17184 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
17185 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
17186 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
17189 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
17190 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
17191 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
17192 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
17194 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17195 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
17196 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
17197 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
17198 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
17199 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
17200 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
17201 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
17202 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17204 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
17205 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
17206 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
17207 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
17208 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
17210 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
17211 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
17212 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
17213 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
17215 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17216 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
17217 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
17218 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17219 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
17220 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
17221 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
17222 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
17224 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
17225 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17227 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
17228 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
17229 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
17232 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17233 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
17234 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
17235 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
17237 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
17238 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
17239 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17240 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
17241 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
17242 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17243 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
17244 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
17245 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
17246 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
17247 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17248 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
17249 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
17250 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
17251 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
17252 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17254 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
17255 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
17256 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
17257 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17258 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
17259 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
17260 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
17262 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
17263 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
17264 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
17265 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
17267 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17268 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
17269 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
17271 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
17272 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
17273 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
17274 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
17276 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
17277 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
17278 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
17279 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
17280 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
17281 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
17282 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
17283 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
17284 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
17285 17744. Patch from zerosion.
17286 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
17287 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
17288 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
17289 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
17290 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
17291 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
17292 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
17293 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
17294 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
17295 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
17296 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
17297 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
17301 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
17302 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
17303 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
17304 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
17305 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
17306 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
17307 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
17308 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
17309 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
17310 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
17311 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
17312 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
17314 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
17315 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
17317 o Removed features:
17318 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
17319 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
17320 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
17321 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
17322 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
17323 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
17324 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
17325 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
17328 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
17329 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
17330 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
17331 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
17332 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
17333 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
17334 portion of ticket 16831.
17335 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
17337 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
17338 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
17339 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
17340 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
17341 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
17343 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
17344 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
17345 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
17346 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
17349 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
17350 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
17351 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
17353 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17354 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17355 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17356 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17357 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17358 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17361 o Minor features (geoip):
17362 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17365 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17366 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
17367 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
17368 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
17369 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17370 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17372 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17373 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
17374 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
17375 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
17376 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
17377 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
17378 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
17379 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17380 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
17381 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17384 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
17385 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
17386 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
17387 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
17388 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
17389 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
17390 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
17391 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
17392 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
17393 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
17394 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
17395 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
17396 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
17397 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
17398 that would make him proud.
17400 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
17402 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
17403 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
17404 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
17405 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
17406 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
17407 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
17408 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
17410 o New system requirements:
17411 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
17412 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
17414 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
17415 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
17416 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
17417 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
17418 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
17419 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
17420 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
17421 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
17422 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
17423 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
17424 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
17425 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
17426 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
17428 o Major features (controller):
17429 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
17430 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
17432 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
17433 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
17434 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
17435 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
17436 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
17437 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
17438 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
17440 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
17441 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
17442 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
17443 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
17444 key). Closes ticket 13642.
17445 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
17446 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
17447 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
17448 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
17449 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
17450 Implements part of ticket 12498.
17451 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
17452 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17453 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
17454 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
17455 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17456 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
17457 part of ticket 12498.
17458 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
17459 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
17461 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
17462 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
17463 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
17464 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
17465 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
17466 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
17467 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
17468 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
17469 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
17472 o Major features (ECC performance):
17473 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
17474 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
17476 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
17477 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
17478 available. Implements ticket 16535.
17479 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
17480 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
17481 Implements ticket 16467.
17482 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
17483 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
17484 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
17485 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
17487 o Major features (Hidden services):
17488 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
17489 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
17490 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
17491 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
17492 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
17493 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
17494 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
17495 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
17496 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
17497 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
17498 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
17499 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
17501 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
17502 introduction points, which used to change the number of
17503 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
17504 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
17506 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
17507 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
17508 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
17509 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
17510 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
17511 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
17513 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
17514 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17515 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
17516 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
17517 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
17518 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
17520 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17521 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17522 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17523 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17524 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17525 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17526 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17527 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17530 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17531 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17532 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17533 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17535 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
17536 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
17537 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
17538 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
17539 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
17540 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
17543 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
17544 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
17545 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17547 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
17548 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
17549 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
17550 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
17551 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
17552 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
17554 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
17555 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17556 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17557 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17558 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17561 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17562 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17563 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17564 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17565 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17566 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17567 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17568 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17571 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
17572 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
17573 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
17574 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
17576 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
17577 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
17578 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
17579 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17580 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
17581 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
17582 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
17585 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
17586 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
17587 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
17588 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
17589 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
17590 own. Implements feature 15482.
17591 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
17592 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
17594 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
17595 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
17596 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
17597 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
17598 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
17600 o Minor features (command-line interface):
17601 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
17602 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17603 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
17604 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
17606 o Minor features (compilation):
17607 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
17608 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
17609 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
17610 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
17611 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
17613 o Minor features (control protocol):
17614 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
17615 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
17617 o Minor features (controller):
17618 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
17619 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
17620 present. Implements ticket 14840.
17621 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
17622 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
17623 Closes ticket 14845.
17624 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
17625 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
17626 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
17628 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17629 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
17630 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
17631 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
17632 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
17633 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
17635 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
17636 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17637 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17638 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17639 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
17640 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
17641 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17643 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
17644 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17645 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17646 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17648 o Minor features (geoip):
17649 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17652 o Minor features (hidden services):
17653 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
17654 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
17655 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
17656 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
17658 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
17659 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
17660 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
17662 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
17663 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
17664 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
17665 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
17666 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
17667 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
17668 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
17669 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
17671 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
17672 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
17673 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
17674 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
17675 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
17676 Closes ticket 15745.
17678 o Minor features (logging):
17679 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
17680 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
17683 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
17684 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
17685 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
17686 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
17688 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
17689 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
17690 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
17691 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
17692 Resolves ticket 15435.
17694 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
17695 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
17696 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
17697 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17698 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
17699 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
17700 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
17701 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17702 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
17703 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
17704 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
17705 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
17706 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
17707 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
17708 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
17709 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
17710 Related to ticket 16069.
17712 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
17713 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
17714 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
17716 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
17717 stderr, not stdout.
17718 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
17719 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
17720 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
17723 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17724 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17725 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17726 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
17727 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
17729 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
17730 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17731 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17732 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17734 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
17735 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
17736 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
17737 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
17738 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
17739 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
17740 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
17741 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17743 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17744 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
17745 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
17746 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17748 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17749 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
17750 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
17752 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
17753 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
17754 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
17756 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
17757 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
17758 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
17759 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17761 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
17762 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17763 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17764 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17765 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17766 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17768 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17769 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17770 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17772 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
17773 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17775 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17776 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
17777 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17778 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
17779 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17780 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
17781 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
17782 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
17784 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
17785 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17786 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17787 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17789 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
17790 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17791 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17793 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
17794 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
17795 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
17798 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17799 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
17800 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
17801 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
17802 recent enough Clang.
17804 o Minor bugfixes (network):
17805 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
17806 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
17807 unsuitable for public communications.
17809 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
17810 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
17811 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
17812 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
17814 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17815 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
17816 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17817 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
17818 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
17820 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
17821 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
17823 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17824 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
17825 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
17826 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
17827 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
17829 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
17830 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17831 from "cypherpunks".
17832 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
17833 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
17836 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
17837 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
17838 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
17839 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
17840 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
17842 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17843 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
17844 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
17845 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
17846 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
17847 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
17849 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
17850 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
17851 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
17852 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17854 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
17855 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
17856 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
17857 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
17858 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
17859 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
17860 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
17861 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
17863 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
17864 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17865 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17867 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17868 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
17869 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
17870 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
17871 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
17872 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
17873 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
17874 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
17875 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
17876 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
17877 function. Closes ticket 16763.
17878 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
17879 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
17881 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
17882 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
17883 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
17884 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
17885 haven't supported that in ages.
17886 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
17887 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
17888 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
17889 suite of other microdesc functions.
17890 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
17891 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
17892 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
17893 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
17894 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
17895 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
17896 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
17897 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
17898 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
17899 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
17900 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
17901 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
17902 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
17903 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
17904 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
17905 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
17907 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
17908 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
17912 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
17913 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
17914 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
17916 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
17917 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17918 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
17919 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
17920 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
17921 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
17922 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
17923 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
17924 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
17925 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
17927 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
17929 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
17930 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
17931 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
17932 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
17933 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
17934 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
17935 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
17936 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
17937 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
17938 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
17939 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
17940 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
17941 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
17943 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
17944 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17947 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
17948 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
17949 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
17950 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
17951 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
17952 Closes ticket 14922.
17953 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
17954 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
17955 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
17956 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
17957 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
17958 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
17959 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
17960 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
17961 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
17962 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
17963 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
17964 Closes ticket 13338.
17966 o Removed features:
17967 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
17968 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
17969 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
17970 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
17971 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
17972 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
17973 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
17974 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
17975 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
17976 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
17977 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
17978 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
17979 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
17980 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
17981 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
17984 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
17985 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
17986 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
17987 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
17988 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
17989 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
17990 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
17991 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
17992 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
17993 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
17994 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
17996 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
17997 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
17998 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
17999 Closes ticket 15817.
18000 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
18001 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
18002 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
18003 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
18004 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
18005 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
18006 network before we begin.
18007 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
18008 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
18009 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
18010 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
18011 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
18012 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
18014 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
18015 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
18017 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
18018 default as a part of "make check".
18019 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
18020 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
18021 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
18022 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
18023 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
18024 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
18025 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
18026 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
18027 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
18028 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
18029 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
18030 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
18031 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
18032 files. Closes ticket 15180.
18033 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
18034 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
18035 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
18036 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
18037 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
18038 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
18039 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
18040 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
18041 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
18042 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
18043 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
18044 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
18045 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
18046 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
18047 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
18048 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
18049 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
18051 - Set the severity correctly when testing
18052 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
18053 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
18054 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
18055 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
18057 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
18058 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
18059 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
18060 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
18061 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
18062 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
18064 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
18065 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
18066 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
18067 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
18068 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
18069 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
18070 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
18071 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
18074 o Major bugfixes (stability):
18075 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
18076 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
18077 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
18078 by "cypherpunks_backup".
18079 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
18080 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
18081 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
18084 o Minor features (geoip):
18085 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18086 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18088 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
18089 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
18090 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
18091 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
18092 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
18093 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
18095 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18096 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
18097 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
18098 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
18101 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
18102 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
18103 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
18104 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
18105 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
18107 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
18108 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
18109 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
18110 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
18111 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
18114 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
18115 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
18116 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
18117 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
18118 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
18119 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
18120 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
18122 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18123 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
18124 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
18125 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
18127 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18128 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
18129 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
18130 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
18131 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
18132 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
18135 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
18136 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
18137 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18140 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
18141 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
18142 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
18143 authorities should upgrade.
18145 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18146 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
18147 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
18148 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
18151 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18152 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
18153 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
18156 o Minor features (geoip):
18157 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18158 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18162 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
18163 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
18164 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
18165 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
18166 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18168 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
18169 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18171 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18172 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18173 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18174 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18175 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18176 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18177 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18179 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18180 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18181 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18182 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18183 Resolves ticket 15515.
18184 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
18185 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
18186 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
18190 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
18191 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18192 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18193 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18194 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18196 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18197 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18199 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18200 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18201 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18202 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18203 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18204 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18205 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18207 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18208 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18209 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18210 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18211 Resolves ticket 15515.
18214 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
18215 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18216 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18217 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18218 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18220 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18221 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18223 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18224 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18225 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18226 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18227 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18228 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18229 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18231 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18232 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18233 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18234 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18235 Resolves ticket 15515.
18238 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
18239 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
18241 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
18242 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
18243 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
18244 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
18245 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
18246 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
18247 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
18248 bugs should be addressed.
18250 o New compiler and system requirements:
18251 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
18252 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
18253 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
18254 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
18256 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
18257 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
18258 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
18259 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
18260 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
18261 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
18262 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
18263 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
18264 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
18266 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
18267 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
18268 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
18269 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
18270 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
18271 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
18272 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
18274 o Directory authority changes:
18275 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18276 closes ticket 14487.
18277 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18278 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18279 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18281 o Major features (bridges):
18282 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
18283 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
18284 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
18287 o Major features (changed defaults):
18288 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
18289 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
18290 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
18291 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
18292 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
18293 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
18295 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
18296 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
18297 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
18298 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
18301 o Major features (directory system):
18302 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
18303 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
18304 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
18305 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
18306 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
18307 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
18308 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
18309 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
18310 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
18311 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
18312 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
18313 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
18314 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
18315 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
18316 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
18317 227. Closes ticket 10395.
18319 o Major features (guards):
18320 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
18321 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
18322 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
18323 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
18324 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
18326 o Major features (hidden services):
18327 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
18328 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
18329 Closes ticket 13667.
18330 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
18331 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
18332 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
18333 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
18334 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
18335 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
18336 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
18337 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
18338 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
18339 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
18340 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
18342 o Major features (performance):
18343 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
18344 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
18345 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
18346 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
18347 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
18348 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
18349 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
18350 Implements ticket 9682.
18352 o Major features (relay):
18353 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
18354 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
18355 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
18356 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
18357 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
18358 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
18359 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
18360 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
18362 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
18363 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
18364 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
18365 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
18366 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
18367 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
18368 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
18371 o Major features (sample torrc):
18372 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
18373 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
18374 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
18375 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
18376 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
18377 generally useful "sample torrc".
18379 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
18380 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
18381 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
18382 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
18383 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
18384 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
18386 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
18387 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
18388 Implements ticket 11485.
18390 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
18391 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
18392 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
18393 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
18394 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
18395 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
18398 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
18399 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
18400 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
18403 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18404 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
18405 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18407 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
18408 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
18409 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
18410 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
18411 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18413 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
18414 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18415 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18416 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18418 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
18419 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
18420 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
18423 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18424 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
18425 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
18426 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
18427 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
18428 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
18430 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18431 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18432 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18433 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18435 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
18436 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
18437 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
18438 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
18439 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
18440 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
18441 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
18443 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18444 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
18445 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
18446 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
18447 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
18448 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18450 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18451 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18452 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
18453 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18454 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18455 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18456 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18457 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18459 o Minor features (build):
18460 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
18461 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
18462 Resolves ticket 13037.
18464 o Minor features (client):
18465 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
18466 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
18467 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
18468 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
18470 o Minor features (client):
18471 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
18472 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
18473 Resolves ticket 13315.
18475 o Minor features (controller):
18476 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
18477 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
18479 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
18480 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
18482 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
18483 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
18484 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
18485 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18486 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18487 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18488 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
18489 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
18490 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
18492 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
18493 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
18494 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
18495 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
18496 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
18497 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
18498 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
18499 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
18500 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
18501 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
18503 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18504 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
18505 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
18506 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
18507 argument more than once.
18508 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
18509 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
18510 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
18511 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
18512 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
18513 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
18515 o Minor features (geoip):
18516 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18517 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18520 o Minor features (guard nodes):
18521 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
18522 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
18523 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
18525 o Minor features (heartbeat):
18526 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
18527 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
18528 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
18529 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
18531 o Minor features (hidden service):
18532 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
18533 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
18534 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
18535 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
18536 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
18537 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
18538 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
18539 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
18540 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
18541 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
18542 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
18543 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
18544 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
18545 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
18547 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
18548 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
18549 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
18551 o Minor features (interface):
18552 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
18553 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
18554 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
18556 o Minor features (logging):
18557 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
18558 Resolves ticket 6852.
18559 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
18560 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
18561 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
18563 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
18564 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
18565 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
18566 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
18567 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
18568 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
18569 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
18570 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
18571 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
18572 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
18573 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
18574 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
18577 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
18578 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
18579 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
18580 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
18582 o Minor features (relay):
18583 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
18584 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
18585 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
18587 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
18588 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
18589 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
18590 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
18591 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
18592 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
18593 document. Implements feature 10427.
18595 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
18596 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
18597 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
18598 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
18600 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
18601 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
18602 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
18603 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
18604 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
18605 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
18607 o Minor features (stability):
18608 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
18609 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
18612 o Minor features (systemd):
18613 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
18614 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
18615 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
18616 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18617 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
18618 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18620 o Minor features (testing networks):
18621 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
18622 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
18623 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
18624 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
18625 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
18627 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
18628 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
18629 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
18630 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
18631 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
18632 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
18634 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
18635 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
18636 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
18637 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
18638 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
18640 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
18641 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
18642 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
18643 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
18644 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
18646 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
18647 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
18648 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
18649 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
18650 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
18653 o Minor features (validation):
18654 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
18655 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
18656 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
18657 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
18658 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
18659 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
18660 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
18661 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
18662 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
18663 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
18664 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
18667 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
18668 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
18669 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
18670 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18672 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18673 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
18674 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
18675 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18677 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
18678 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
18679 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
18681 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
18682 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
18683 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
18685 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
18686 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18687 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
18688 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
18689 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18690 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
18691 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18693 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
18694 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
18695 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
18696 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18697 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
18698 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
18699 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
18700 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
18701 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
18703 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18704 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
18705 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
18706 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18707 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
18708 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18709 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
18710 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
18711 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
18713 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18714 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18715 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18716 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18717 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18718 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18719 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
18720 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
18722 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
18723 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
18724 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
18727 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
18728 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
18729 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
18730 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
18731 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18733 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
18734 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
18735 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
18736 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18737 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
18738 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
18739 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
18740 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18742 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
18743 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
18744 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
18745 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
18746 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18748 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
18749 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
18750 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
18751 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
18752 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
18754 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
18755 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
18756 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18758 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
18759 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
18760 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
18761 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
18762 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
18764 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
18765 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
18766 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
18768 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18769 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
18771 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
18772 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
18773 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
18774 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
18776 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
18777 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
18779 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
18780 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
18781 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
18782 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
18783 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
18784 Addresses ticket 14188.
18785 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18786 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18787 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18788 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
18789 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
18790 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
18791 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
18792 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18793 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
18794 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
18795 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
18798 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18799 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
18800 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
18801 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
18802 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
18803 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18805 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18806 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
18807 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
18808 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
18809 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
18811 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18812 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18813 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18814 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18815 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18816 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
18817 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
18818 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18819 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
18820 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18821 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18822 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18823 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18824 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
18825 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
18826 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18828 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18829 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
18830 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
18831 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18832 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
18833 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
18834 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
18835 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
18838 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
18839 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
18840 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
18841 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
18842 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
18843 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18844 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
18845 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
18846 state, and key files.
18847 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
18848 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
18851 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18852 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
18853 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
18854 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
18855 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18856 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
18857 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
18858 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18859 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
18860 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
18861 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
18862 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
18863 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18864 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
18865 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
18866 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
18867 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
18868 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
18871 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18872 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
18873 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
18874 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
18875 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
18876 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
18877 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
18878 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
18879 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
18880 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18882 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18883 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
18884 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18885 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
18886 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
18887 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
18889 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
18890 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18892 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
18893 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
18894 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
18895 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
18896 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18898 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
18899 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
18900 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
18901 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
18902 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
18903 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18905 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18906 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
18907 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
18909 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
18910 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
18911 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18913 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18914 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18915 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18916 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18917 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18919 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
18920 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
18921 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
18924 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18925 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
18926 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18927 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
18928 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
18931 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
18932 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
18933 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
18934 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
18937 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
18938 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
18939 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
18942 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18943 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18944 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18946 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
18947 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
18948 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
18949 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
18950 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
18953 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
18954 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
18955 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18956 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
18957 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
18958 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18960 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
18961 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
18962 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
18963 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
18964 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
18965 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
18967 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
18968 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
18969 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
18970 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
18971 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18972 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
18973 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
18974 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
18975 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
18976 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
18977 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
18978 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
18979 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
18980 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
18981 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
18982 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
18983 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
18984 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
18985 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
18986 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18987 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
18988 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
18989 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
18990 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
18991 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
18992 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
18993 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
18994 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18995 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
18996 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
18997 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
18998 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
19000 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
19001 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
19002 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
19003 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
19004 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19006 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19007 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
19008 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
19009 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
19010 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
19011 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19012 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
19013 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
19014 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19016 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
19017 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
19018 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
19020 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
19021 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
19022 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
19025 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
19026 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
19027 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
19028 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
19031 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
19032 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
19033 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19035 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19036 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
19037 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
19039 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
19040 Resolves ticket 12205.
19041 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
19042 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
19043 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
19044 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
19046 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
19047 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
19048 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
19050 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
19051 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
19053 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
19054 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
19055 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
19056 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
19057 or_options_t structure.
19058 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
19059 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
19060 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
19061 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
19062 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
19063 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
19064 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
19065 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
19067 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
19068 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
19070 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
19072 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
19073 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
19074 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
19075 with a function instead.
19076 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
19077 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
19078 Closes ticket 13172.
19079 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
19080 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
19081 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
19082 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
19083 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
19084 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
19085 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
19086 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
19087 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
19088 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
19089 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
19090 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
19094 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
19095 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
19096 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
19097 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
19099 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
19100 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
19101 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
19102 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19103 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
19104 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19105 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
19106 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
19107 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
19108 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
19109 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
19110 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
19111 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
19112 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
19113 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
19114 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
19115 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
19116 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
19118 o Distribution (systemd):
19119 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
19120 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
19121 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
19122 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
19123 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
19125 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
19126 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
19128 o Downgraded warnings:
19129 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
19130 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
19133 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
19134 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
19135 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
19138 o Removed features (directory authorities):
19139 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
19140 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
19141 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
19142 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
19143 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
19144 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
19145 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
19146 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
19147 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
19149 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
19150 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
19151 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
19152 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
19155 o Removed features:
19156 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
19157 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
19158 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
19159 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
19160 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
19162 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
19163 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
19164 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
19165 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
19166 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
19167 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
19168 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
19169 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
19170 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
19172 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
19173 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
19175 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
19176 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
19177 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
19178 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
19179 anymore, and ignore it.
19181 o Removed platform support:
19182 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
19183 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
19184 Closes ticket 11446.
19186 o Testing (test-network.sh):
19187 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
19188 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
19190 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
19192 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
19193 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
19194 Partially implements ticket 13161.
19197 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
19198 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
19199 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
19200 (existing behavior).
19201 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
19202 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
19203 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
19204 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
19205 Closes ticket 14107.
19206 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
19207 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19208 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
19209 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
19211 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
19212 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
19213 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
19214 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
19215 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
19216 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
19218 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
19220 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
19221 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
19222 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
19223 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
19224 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
19225 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
19226 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
19227 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
19228 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
19229 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
19230 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
19231 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
19233 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
19234 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
19235 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
19237 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
19238 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19240 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
19241 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
19242 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
19244 o Directory authority changes:
19245 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19246 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19247 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19248 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19249 closes ticket 14487.
19251 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19252 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19253 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19256 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19257 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19258 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19259 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19260 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19261 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19262 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19263 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19265 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19266 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19267 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19268 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19270 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19271 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19272 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19273 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19275 o Minor features (controller):
19276 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19277 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19278 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19280 o Minor features (geoip):
19281 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19282 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19285 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19286 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19287 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19288 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19289 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19290 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19292 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19293 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19294 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19295 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
19297 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19298 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
19299 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
19300 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
19301 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
19302 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
19303 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
19304 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19306 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19307 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19308 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19310 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
19311 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
19312 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
19313 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
19314 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
19318 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
19319 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
19320 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
19323 o Directory authority changes:
19324 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19325 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19326 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19327 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19328 closes ticket 14487.
19330 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
19331 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19332 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19333 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19335 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
19336 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19337 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19338 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19339 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19340 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19341 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19342 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19344 o Minor features (geoip):
19345 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19346 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19349 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
19350 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19352 It adds several new security features, including improved
19353 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
19354 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
19355 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
19356 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
19357 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
19358 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
19359 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
19360 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
19361 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
19362 and features mentioned below.
19364 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
19365 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
19367 o Major features (security):
19368 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
19369 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
19370 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
19371 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
19372 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
19373 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
19374 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
19375 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
19376 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
19377 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
19379 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
19380 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
19381 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
19382 streams attached to each circuit.
19384 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
19385 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
19386 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
19387 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
19388 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
19389 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
19390 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
19391 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
19392 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
19393 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
19394 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
19395 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
19396 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
19398 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
19399 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
19400 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
19401 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
19403 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
19404 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
19405 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
19406 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
19407 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
19408 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
19410 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
19411 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
19412 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
19413 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
19414 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
19415 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
19416 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
19417 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
19420 o Major features (controller):
19421 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
19422 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
19423 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
19424 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
19425 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
19426 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
19428 o Major features (relay performance):
19429 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
19430 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
19431 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
19432 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
19433 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
19434 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
19435 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
19436 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
19437 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
19438 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
19440 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
19441 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
19442 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
19443 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
19444 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
19445 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
19446 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
19447 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
19448 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
19449 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
19451 o Major features (testing networks):
19452 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
19453 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
19454 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
19455 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
19456 Implements ticket 8530.
19458 o Major features (other):
19459 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
19460 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
19461 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
19462 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
19463 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
19464 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
19466 o Deprecated versions:
19467 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
19468 attention for some while.
19470 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19471 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
19472 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
19474 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
19475 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
19476 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
19477 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
19478 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
19479 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
19480 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
19481 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
19482 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
19483 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
19484 router's identity is not forgeable.
19486 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
19487 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19488 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
19489 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19491 o Major bugfixes (client):
19492 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
19493 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
19494 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
19495 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
19496 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
19497 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
19498 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
19499 to build circuits".
19501 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
19502 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
19503 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
19504 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
19507 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
19508 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
19509 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
19510 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
19511 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
19512 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
19513 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19515 o Major bugfixes (relay):
19516 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
19517 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19518 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19519 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
19520 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
19521 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
19522 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19523 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
19524 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
19525 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
19526 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19527 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
19528 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
19529 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
19530 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
19531 bugfix on every version of Tor.
19533 o Minor features (security):
19534 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
19535 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
19536 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
19537 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
19539 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
19540 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
19541 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
19542 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
19543 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
19544 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
19545 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
19547 o Minor features (security, memory management):
19548 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
19549 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
19550 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
19551 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
19552 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
19553 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
19555 o Minor features (bridge client):
19556 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
19557 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
19558 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
19560 o Minor features (bridge):
19561 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
19562 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
19564 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19565 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
19566 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
19567 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
19568 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
19569 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
19570 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
19571 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
19572 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
19573 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
19574 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
19575 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
19576 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
19577 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
19578 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
19580 o Minor features (build):
19581 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
19582 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
19583 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
19584 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
19585 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
19586 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
19587 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
19588 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
19589 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
19590 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
19591 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
19592 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
19593 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
19594 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
19595 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
19598 o Minor features (client):
19599 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
19600 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
19601 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
19602 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
19604 o Minor features (config options and command line):
19605 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
19606 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
19607 Implements ticket 10060.
19608 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
19609 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
19610 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
19612 o Minor features (config options):
19613 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
19614 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
19615 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
19616 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
19617 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
19618 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
19619 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
19620 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
19621 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
19622 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
19623 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
19624 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
19625 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
19626 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
19627 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
19628 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
19629 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
19632 o Minor features (controller):
19633 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
19634 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
19636 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
19637 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
19638 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
19639 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
19640 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
19641 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
19642 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
19643 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
19645 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
19646 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
19647 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
19649 o Minor features (diagnostic):
19650 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
19651 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
19652 help diagnose bug 7164.
19653 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
19654 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
19655 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
19656 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
19657 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
19659 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
19660 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
19661 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
19662 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
19663 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
19664 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
19665 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
19666 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
19667 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
19668 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
19669 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
19670 still referenced by a live node_t object.
19671 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
19672 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
19673 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19675 o Minor features (geoip):
19676 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19679 o Minor features (interface):
19680 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
19681 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
19682 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
19683 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
19685 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
19686 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
19687 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
19689 o Minor features (log messages):
19690 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
19691 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
19692 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
19693 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
19694 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
19695 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
19696 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
19697 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
19699 o Minor features (log verbosity):
19700 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
19701 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
19702 Resolves ticket 5286.
19703 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
19704 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
19705 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
19706 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
19707 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
19708 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
19710 o Minor features (performance):
19711 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
19712 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
19713 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
19714 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
19715 Closes ticket 8109.
19717 o Minor features (relay):
19718 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
19719 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
19720 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
19722 o Minor features (testing):
19723 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
19724 the unit test scripts.
19725 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
19726 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
19727 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
19728 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
19730 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
19731 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
19732 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
19733 10267; patch from "yurivict".
19734 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
19735 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
19736 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
19737 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
19738 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
19739 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
19741 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
19742 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
19743 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
19744 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19746 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19747 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
19748 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
19749 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19750 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
19751 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
19752 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
19753 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
19754 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
19755 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
19757 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
19758 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
19759 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
19761 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
19762 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
19763 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
19764 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
19765 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19767 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19768 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
19769 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
19770 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
19771 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19772 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
19773 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
19774 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
19775 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19776 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
19777 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
19778 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
19780 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
19781 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
19782 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
19783 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
19784 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
19785 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19786 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
19787 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
19788 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19789 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
19790 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
19791 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19793 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
19794 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
19795 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
19796 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
19798 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
19799 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
19800 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
19801 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
19804 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
19805 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
19806 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
19807 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19808 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
19809 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
19812 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
19813 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
19814 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
19815 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
19816 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
19818 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
19819 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
19820 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
19823 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19824 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
19825 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
19826 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
19827 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
19828 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
19829 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
19830 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
19831 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
19832 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
19834 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
19835 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
19836 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
19837 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
19838 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
19840 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
19841 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19843 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19844 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
19845 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
19846 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
19847 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
19848 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
19849 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
19850 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
19851 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
19852 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19853 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
19854 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
19855 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
19857 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
19858 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
19859 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
19860 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
19861 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
19862 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
19863 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
19864 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
19865 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
19866 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
19867 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
19868 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
19869 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
19871 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
19872 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
19873 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
19875 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
19876 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
19877 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
19878 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
19879 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
19880 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
19882 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
19883 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
19884 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
19885 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19886 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
19887 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
19888 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
19889 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
19890 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
19891 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19893 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19894 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
19895 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19897 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
19898 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
19899 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
19900 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
19901 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19903 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19904 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
19905 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
19906 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19907 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
19908 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
19909 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
19910 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19911 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
19912 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
19913 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
19914 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
19915 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
19916 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
19918 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19919 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
19920 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
19921 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
19922 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
19923 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
19924 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
19925 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
19926 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
19928 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
19929 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
19930 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19931 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
19932 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
19933 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
19934 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
19936 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
19937 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
19939 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
19940 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
19941 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
19942 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
19944 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
19945 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
19946 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
19947 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19948 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
19949 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
19950 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
19951 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
19952 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
19953 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
19954 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
19955 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
19956 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19957 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
19958 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
19959 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
19960 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
19962 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
19963 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
19964 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
19965 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
19966 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
19967 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
19968 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
19969 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
19972 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
19973 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
19974 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
19975 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
19976 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
19977 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
19978 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19979 Reported by "mr-4".
19980 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
19981 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
19982 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
19983 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19985 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
19986 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
19987 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
19988 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
19989 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
19990 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
19991 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
19992 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
19993 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19994 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
19995 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
19996 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
19998 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
19999 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
20000 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
20002 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
20003 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
20004 early. Fixes bug 10081.
20006 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
20007 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
20008 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
20009 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
20012 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
20013 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
20014 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
20015 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
20018 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
20019 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
20020 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
20021 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
20023 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
20024 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
20025 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20027 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
20028 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
20029 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
20030 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
20031 versions. Found by "skruffy".
20032 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
20033 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
20034 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
20037 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
20038 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
20039 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
20040 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
20041 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
20042 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
20043 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
20044 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
20045 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20046 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
20047 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
20049 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20050 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
20051 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
20052 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
20053 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
20055 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
20056 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
20057 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
20058 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
20061 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
20062 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
20063 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20064 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
20065 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
20066 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
20067 should never have affected anyone in practice.
20069 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20070 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
20071 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
20072 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
20073 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
20074 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
20075 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
20076 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
20077 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
20078 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
20079 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
20080 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
20081 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
20082 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
20083 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
20084 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
20085 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20086 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
20087 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
20088 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
20089 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
20090 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
20091 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
20092 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
20094 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
20095 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
20096 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
20097 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
20098 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20099 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
20100 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
20101 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
20102 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
20104 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
20105 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
20108 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
20109 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
20111 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
20113 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
20114 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
20115 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
20116 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
20117 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
20118 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
20120 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
20121 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
20123 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
20124 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
20125 caches don't get confused.
20126 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
20127 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20128 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
20129 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
20130 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
20131 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
20132 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
20133 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
20134 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
20135 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
20136 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
20137 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
20138 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
20139 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
20140 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20141 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
20142 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
20143 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20146 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
20147 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
20148 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
20149 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
20150 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
20152 o Removed code and features:
20153 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
20154 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
20155 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
20156 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
20157 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
20158 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
20160 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
20161 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
20162 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
20163 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
20164 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
20165 part of a fix for bug 10841.
20166 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
20167 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
20168 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
20169 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
20170 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
20171 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
20173 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
20174 Resolves ticket 11070.
20175 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
20176 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
20177 the rest of bug 10841.
20178 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
20179 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
20180 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
20181 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
20183 o Test infrastructure:
20184 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
20185 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
20186 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
20187 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
20188 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
20189 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
20190 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
20191 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
20192 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
20193 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
20195 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
20196 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
20197 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
20198 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
20199 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
20200 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
20201 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
20202 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
20203 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
20204 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
20205 invoking the other functions it calls.
20208 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
20209 Patch from Dana Koch.
20210 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
20211 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
20212 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
20213 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
20215 o Distribution (systemd):
20216 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
20217 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
20218 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
20219 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
20220 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
20221 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
20222 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
20223 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
20224 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
20225 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
20226 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
20227 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
20228 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20232 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
20233 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
20234 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
20235 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
20236 (which does affect Tor).
20238 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20239 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
20240 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
20241 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
20243 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20244 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
20245 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
20246 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
20249 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
20250 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
20251 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
20252 the directory authorities.
20255 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
20256 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
20257 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
20258 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
20259 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
20260 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
20261 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
20262 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
20263 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
20264 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
20265 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
20266 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20268 o Directory authority changes:
20269 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20271 o Minor features (geoip):
20272 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20276 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
20277 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
20278 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
20279 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
20282 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
20283 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
20284 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
20285 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
20286 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
20287 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
20288 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
20289 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
20290 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
20291 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
20294 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
20295 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
20296 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
20297 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
20298 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
20299 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
20300 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
20301 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
20305 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
20306 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
20307 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
20308 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
20309 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
20310 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
20311 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
20312 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
20313 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20314 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
20315 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
20316 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
20317 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
20320 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20324 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
20325 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
20326 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
20327 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
20328 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
20329 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
20330 of RAM, and several others.
20332 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20333 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
20334 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
20335 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
20336 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
20338 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
20339 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
20340 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
20341 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
20344 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20345 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
20346 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
20347 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
20348 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
20349 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
20350 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20351 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
20352 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
20353 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
20354 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
20355 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
20356 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
20357 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
20358 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
20359 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
20360 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
20361 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
20362 Resolves ticket 11438.
20364 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
20365 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
20366 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
20367 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
20368 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20369 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20371 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20372 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
20373 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20375 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20376 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
20377 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20379 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20380 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
20381 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
20382 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20384 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20385 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
20386 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
20388 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20389 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
20390 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20393 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
20394 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
20395 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
20396 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
20399 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20400 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
20401 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
20402 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
20404 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20405 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
20406 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
20407 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20409 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20410 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
20411 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
20415 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
20416 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
20417 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
20418 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
20420 o Major features (client security):
20421 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
20422 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
20423 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
20424 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
20425 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
20426 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
20429 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
20430 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
20431 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
20432 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20434 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20435 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
20436 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
20437 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
20438 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
20441 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
20442 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
20444 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
20445 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
20446 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
20447 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
20448 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
20449 GeoLite2 Country database.
20452 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
20453 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
20454 bugfix on every released Tor.
20455 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
20456 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
20457 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
20458 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20459 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
20460 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
20461 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
20462 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
20463 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
20464 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20465 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
20466 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
20467 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20468 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
20469 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20471 o Documentation fixes:
20472 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
20473 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
20476 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
20477 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
20478 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
20479 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
20480 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
20481 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
20482 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
20484 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
20485 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
20488 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
20489 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
20490 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
20491 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
20492 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
20493 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
20494 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
20495 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
20497 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
20498 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20499 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
20500 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
20501 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
20502 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20505 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
20506 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20507 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
20508 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
20509 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
20512 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
20513 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
20514 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
20515 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
20516 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
20517 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
20518 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
20519 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
20521 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
20522 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
20523 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
20524 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
20525 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
20526 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
20527 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
20528 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
20529 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
20530 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
20531 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
20532 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
20533 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
20534 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
20535 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
20536 security, and privacy fixes.
20538 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
20539 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
20540 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
20541 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
20542 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
20543 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
20544 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
20545 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
20546 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
20547 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
20548 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
20550 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
20551 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
20552 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
20554 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
20556 o Major features (better link encryption):
20557 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
20558 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
20559 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
20560 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
20561 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
20562 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
20565 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
20566 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
20567 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
20568 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
20570 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
20572 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
20573 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
20574 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
20575 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
20576 them to solve bug 6033.)
20578 o Major features (relay performance):
20579 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
20580 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
20581 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
20582 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
20583 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
20584 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
20585 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
20586 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
20587 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
20588 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
20589 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
20590 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
20591 Implements ticket 9574.
20593 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
20594 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
20595 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
20596 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
20597 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
20598 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
20599 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
20600 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
20601 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
20602 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
20603 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
20604 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
20605 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
20606 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
20607 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
20608 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
20610 o Major features (use of guards):
20611 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
20612 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
20613 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
20614 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
20615 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
20616 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
20617 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
20618 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
20619 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
20620 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
20621 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
20622 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
20623 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
20624 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20626 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
20627 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
20628 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
20629 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
20631 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
20632 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
20635 o Major features (geoip database):
20636 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
20637 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
20638 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
20639 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
20640 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
20641 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
20643 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
20645 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20647 o Major features (IPv6):
20648 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
20649 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
20650 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
20651 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
20652 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
20653 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
20654 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
20655 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
20656 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
20657 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
20658 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
20659 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
20660 revised in proposal 208.
20661 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
20662 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
20663 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
20665 o Major features (directory authorities):
20666 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
20667 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
20669 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
20670 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
20671 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
20672 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
20673 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
20674 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
20675 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
20676 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
20677 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
20678 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
20679 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
20681 o Major features (build and portability):
20682 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
20683 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
20684 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
20685 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
20686 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
20687 fixes by Jim Meyering.
20688 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
20689 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
20690 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
20691 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
20692 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
20693 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
20695 o Security features:
20696 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
20697 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
20698 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
20699 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
20700 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
20701 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
20702 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
20703 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
20704 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
20707 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
20708 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
20709 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
20710 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
20711 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
20712 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
20713 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
20714 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
20715 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20716 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
20717 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
20718 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
20719 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
20720 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
20721 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20722 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
20723 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
20724 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20726 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
20727 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
20728 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
20729 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
20731 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
20732 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
20733 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
20735 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
20736 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
20737 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20738 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
20739 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
20740 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20741 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
20742 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
20743 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
20745 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
20746 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20748 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
20749 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
20750 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
20751 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
20752 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
20753 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
20754 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
20755 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
20756 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
20757 last time we raised it).
20758 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
20759 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
20760 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
20762 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20763 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
20764 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
20765 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
20766 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
20767 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
20768 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
20769 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20770 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
20771 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
20772 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
20773 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
20774 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20776 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
20777 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
20778 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
20779 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
20780 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
20781 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
20782 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
20783 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
20784 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20785 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
20786 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
20787 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
20788 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
20790 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
20791 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
20792 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
20793 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
20794 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
20795 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
20796 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
20797 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
20798 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20800 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
20801 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
20802 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
20803 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
20804 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
20805 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
20806 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
20807 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
20808 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
20809 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
20810 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
20811 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
20812 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
20813 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
20814 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
20815 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
20816 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
20819 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
20820 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
20821 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
20822 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20824 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
20825 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
20826 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
20827 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
20829 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
20830 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
20831 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
20832 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
20833 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
20834 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
20837 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
20838 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
20839 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
20840 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
20841 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
20842 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
20843 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20845 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
20846 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
20847 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
20848 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20850 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20851 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
20852 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
20853 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
20854 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20855 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
20856 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
20857 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20859 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
20860 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
20861 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20863 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
20864 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
20865 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20867 o Internal abstraction features:
20868 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
20869 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
20870 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
20871 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
20872 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
20873 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
20874 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
20875 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
20876 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
20877 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
20878 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
20879 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
20880 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
20881 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
20882 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
20883 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
20884 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
20886 o New build requirements:
20887 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
20888 strongly recommended.
20889 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
20890 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
20891 from a source distribution.)
20893 o Minor features (protocol):
20894 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
20895 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
20897 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
20898 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
20899 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
20900 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
20901 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
20902 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
20903 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
20904 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
20905 closes ticket 7199.
20906 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
20907 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
20909 o Minor features (security):
20910 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
20911 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
20912 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
20913 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
20914 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
20915 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
20916 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
20917 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
20918 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
20920 o Minor features (control protocol):
20921 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
20923 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
20924 Implements ticket 4971.
20925 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
20926 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
20927 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
20928 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
20929 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
20931 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
20932 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
20934 o Minor features (path selection):
20935 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
20936 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
20937 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
20938 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
20939 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
20940 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
20941 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
20942 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
20943 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
20944 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
20945 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
20946 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
20947 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
20948 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
20950 o Minor features (hidden services):
20951 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
20952 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
20953 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
20954 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
20955 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
20956 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
20957 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
20958 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
20959 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
20960 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
20961 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
20962 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
20963 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
20965 o Minor features (clients):
20966 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
20967 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
20968 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
20969 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
20970 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
20971 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
20972 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
20973 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
20974 the ORPort and the DirPort.
20976 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
20977 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
20978 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
20979 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
20980 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
20981 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
20982 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
20983 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
20984 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
20985 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
20986 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
20987 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
20988 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
20989 Implements part of proposal 222.
20991 o Minor features (bridges):
20992 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
20993 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
20994 bugs 1913 and 1992.
20995 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
20996 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
20997 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
20998 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
20999 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
21000 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
21001 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
21002 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
21003 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
21004 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
21005 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
21007 o Minor features (relays):
21008 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
21009 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
21011 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
21012 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
21013 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
21014 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
21015 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
21016 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
21017 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
21018 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
21019 connect to the wrong addresses.
21020 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
21021 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
21022 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
21023 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
21026 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
21027 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
21028 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
21029 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
21030 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
21031 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
21033 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21034 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
21035 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
21036 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
21038 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
21039 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
21040 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
21041 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
21042 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
21043 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
21045 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
21046 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
21047 Implements ticket 8151.
21048 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
21049 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
21050 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
21051 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
21053 o Minor features (path bias detection):
21054 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
21055 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
21056 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
21057 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
21058 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
21059 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
21060 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
21061 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
21062 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
21063 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
21064 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
21065 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
21066 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
21067 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
21068 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
21069 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
21070 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
21071 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
21072 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
21073 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
21074 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
21075 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
21076 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
21077 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
21078 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
21079 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
21080 detection capability loss.
21082 o Minor features (build):
21083 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
21084 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
21085 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
21087 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
21088 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
21089 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21091 o Build improvements (autotools):
21092 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
21093 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
21094 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
21096 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
21097 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
21098 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
21099 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
21101 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
21102 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
21103 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
21104 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
21105 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
21106 than to perform erroneously.
21107 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
21109 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
21110 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
21111 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
21113 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
21114 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
21115 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
21116 hard-to-track-down errors.
21117 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
21118 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
21119 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
21120 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
21121 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
21122 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
21123 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
21124 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21125 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
21126 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
21127 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
21129 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
21130 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
21131 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
21132 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
21133 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
21134 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
21135 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
21136 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
21137 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
21138 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
21140 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
21141 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
21142 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
21143 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
21144 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
21145 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
21146 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
21147 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
21148 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
21149 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
21150 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
21151 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
21152 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
21154 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
21155 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
21156 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
21157 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
21158 or at least make it more diagnosable.
21159 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
21160 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
21161 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
21162 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
21164 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
21165 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
21166 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
21167 part of ticket 6736.
21168 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
21169 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
21170 Resolves ticket 6758.
21171 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
21172 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
21173 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
21174 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21175 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
21176 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
21177 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
21179 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
21180 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
21181 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
21182 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21184 o Minor features (testing):
21185 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
21186 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
21188 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
21189 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
21190 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
21193 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
21194 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
21196 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
21197 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
21198 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
21199 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
21200 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
21201 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
21202 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
21203 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
21204 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
21205 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
21206 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
21207 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
21208 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
21209 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
21210 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
21211 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
21212 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
21214 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
21215 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
21216 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
21217 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
21218 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
21219 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
21220 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
21221 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
21222 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
21223 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
21224 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
21225 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
21226 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
21227 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
21228 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
21229 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
21230 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
21231 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21232 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
21233 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
21236 o Minor fixes (config options):
21237 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
21238 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
21239 or we just won't work.)
21240 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
21241 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
21242 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21243 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
21244 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
21245 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
21246 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
21247 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21248 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
21249 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
21250 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
21251 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21252 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
21253 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
21254 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
21255 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21256 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
21257 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
21258 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
21260 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
21261 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
21262 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
21264 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
21265 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
21266 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
21267 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
21269 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
21270 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
21271 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
21272 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
21273 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
21274 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21275 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
21276 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
21277 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
21278 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
21279 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21280 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
21281 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
21282 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
21283 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
21284 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
21287 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
21288 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
21289 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
21290 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
21291 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
21292 Should help resolve bug 8235.
21293 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
21294 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
21295 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
21296 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21297 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
21298 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
21299 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
21300 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
21301 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
21302 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
21303 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21305 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21306 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
21307 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
21308 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
21309 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
21310 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
21311 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
21312 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
21314 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21315 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
21316 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
21317 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
21319 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
21320 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
21321 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
21322 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
21323 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
21325 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21326 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
21327 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
21328 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21329 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
21330 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21332 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
21333 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
21334 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21335 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
21336 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21337 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
21338 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21339 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
21340 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
21342 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21343 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
21344 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
21345 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
21346 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21347 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
21348 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
21349 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
21350 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
21351 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
21352 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
21353 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
21355 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
21356 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
21357 this is CID 718634.
21358 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
21359 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
21360 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
21361 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
21363 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
21364 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
21366 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
21367 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
21368 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
21369 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
21370 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
21371 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
21372 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
21373 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21374 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
21375 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
21376 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
21377 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21378 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
21379 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
21380 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21381 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
21382 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
21383 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
21385 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
21386 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
21387 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
21388 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
21389 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21390 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
21391 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
21392 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
21393 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
21394 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21395 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
21396 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
21397 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
21400 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
21401 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
21402 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
21403 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
21404 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
21406 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
21407 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21408 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
21409 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
21410 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
21411 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21412 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
21413 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
21414 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
21417 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21418 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
21419 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21420 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21422 o Documentation fixes:
21423 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
21424 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
21425 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
21426 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
21427 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
21428 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
21429 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
21431 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
21432 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
21433 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
21434 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
21435 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
21436 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
21437 message is logged at notice, not at info.
21438 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21439 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21440 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21441 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21442 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21443 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21445 o Removed features:
21446 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
21447 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
21448 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
21450 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
21451 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
21452 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
21453 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
21454 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
21455 compatibility code.
21458 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
21459 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
21461 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
21462 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
21464 o Code simplification:
21465 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
21466 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
21467 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
21468 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
21470 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
21471 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
21473 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
21474 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
21475 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
21476 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
21477 present the same extensions.)
21478 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
21480 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
21481 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
21482 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
21483 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
21485 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
21486 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
21487 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
21488 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
21491 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
21493 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
21494 and the different handshakes it supports.
21495 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
21496 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
21497 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
21498 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
21500 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
21501 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
21502 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
21503 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
21504 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
21505 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
21506 testable, and a little less fragile too.
21507 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
21508 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
21509 Implements ticket 5529.
21510 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
21511 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
21512 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
21515 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
21516 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
21517 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
21518 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
21519 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
21520 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21521 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
21522 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
21523 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
21524 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
21525 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
21526 any encoding is overkill.
21527 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
21528 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21529 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
21530 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
21531 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
21532 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
21533 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
21534 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
21535 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
21538 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
21539 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
21540 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
21541 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
21542 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
21543 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
21544 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
21545 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
21547 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
21548 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
21549 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
21550 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
21551 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
21552 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
21553 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
21554 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
21555 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
21556 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
21557 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
21559 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
21560 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
21561 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
21562 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
21563 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
21564 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
21565 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
21566 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
21567 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
21568 describes microdescriptors.
21570 o Major features (build hardening):
21571 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
21573 o Major features (relay scaling):
21574 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
21575 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
21576 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
21577 much faster than other AES implementations.
21578 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
21579 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
21580 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
21581 Resolves ticket 4526.
21582 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
21583 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
21585 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
21586 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
21587 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
21588 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
21590 o Major features (blocking resistance):
21591 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
21593 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
21594 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
21595 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
21596 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
21597 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
21598 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
21599 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
21600 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
21601 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
21602 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
21603 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
21604 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
21605 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
21606 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
21607 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
21608 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
21609 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
21610 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
21611 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
21613 o Major features (pluggable transports):
21614 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
21615 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
21616 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
21617 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
21619 o Major features (DoS resistance):
21620 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
21621 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
21622 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
21623 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
21624 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
21625 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
21626 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
21627 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
21628 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
21629 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
21630 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
21632 o Major features (hidden services):
21633 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
21634 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
21635 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
21637 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
21638 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
21639 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
21640 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
21641 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
21642 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
21644 o Major features (IPv6):
21645 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
21646 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
21647 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
21648 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
21649 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
21651 o Major features (directory authorities):
21652 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
21653 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
21654 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
21655 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
21656 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
21657 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
21658 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
21659 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
21660 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
21661 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
21663 o Major features (performance):
21664 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
21665 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
21666 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
21667 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
21668 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
21669 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
21670 side of Proposal 174.
21671 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
21672 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
21673 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
21674 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
21675 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
21676 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
21677 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
21678 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
21679 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
21680 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
21681 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
21682 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
21684 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
21685 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
21686 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
21687 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
21688 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
21691 o Major features (relays):
21692 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
21693 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
21694 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
21695 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
21696 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
21697 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
21698 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
21700 o Major features (stream isolation):
21701 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
21702 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
21703 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
21704 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
21705 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
21706 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
21707 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
21708 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
21709 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
21710 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
21711 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
21712 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
21713 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
21714 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
21716 o Major features (bufferevents):
21717 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
21718 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
21719 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
21720 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
21721 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
21722 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
21723 zero-copy transports where available.
21724 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
21725 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
21726 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
21727 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
21728 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
21729 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
21731 o Major features (path selection):
21732 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
21733 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
21734 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
21735 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
21738 o Major features (port forwarding):
21739 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
21740 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
21741 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
21742 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
21743 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
21744 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
21746 o Major features (logging):
21747 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
21748 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
21749 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
21750 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
21751 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
21752 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
21753 Implements enhancement 1668.
21755 o Major features (other):
21756 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
21757 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
21758 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
21759 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
21760 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
21761 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
21762 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
21763 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
21764 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
21765 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
21766 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
21767 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
21768 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
21769 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
21770 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
21771 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
21772 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
21773 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
21774 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
21775 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
21777 o New directory authorities:
21778 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21779 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21781 o Security/privacy fixes:
21782 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
21783 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
21784 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21785 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
21786 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
21787 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
21788 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21789 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
21790 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
21791 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
21792 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
21793 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
21794 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
21795 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
21796 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
21797 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21798 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21799 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21800 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21801 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21802 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21803 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21804 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21805 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21806 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21807 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21808 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21809 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21810 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21811 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21812 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21814 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
21815 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
21816 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
21817 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
21818 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21819 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21820 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21821 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21822 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
21823 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
21824 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
21825 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
21826 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21827 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21830 o Major bugfixes (clients):
21831 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
21832 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
21833 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
21834 which introduced predicted ports.
21835 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
21836 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
21837 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
21838 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
21839 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
21840 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
21841 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21842 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
21843 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
21845 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
21846 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
21847 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
21848 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
21849 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
21850 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
21852 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
21853 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
21854 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
21855 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
21856 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21857 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
21858 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
21859 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
21860 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
21861 documents entirely.
21863 o Major bugfixes (relays):
21864 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
21865 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
21866 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
21867 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
21868 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
21869 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
21870 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
21871 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
21872 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
21873 immensely in tracking this bug down.
21874 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21875 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21876 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21877 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
21878 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
21879 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
21880 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21882 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21883 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
21884 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
21885 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
21886 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
21887 cells were introduced.
21888 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
21889 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
21890 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
21891 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
21893 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21894 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
21895 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
21896 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
21897 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
21898 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
21899 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
21900 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
21901 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
21902 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
21903 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
21904 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
21905 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
21906 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
21907 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
21908 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
21909 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
21910 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
21911 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
21912 Fixes part of bug 3825.
21914 o Changes to default torrc file:
21915 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
21916 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
21918 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
21919 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
21920 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
21922 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
21923 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
21924 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
21926 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21927 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
21928 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
21929 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
21930 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
21931 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
21932 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
21933 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
21934 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
21935 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
21936 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
21937 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
21938 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
21939 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
21940 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
21941 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
21944 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
21945 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
21946 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
21947 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
21948 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
21949 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
21950 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
21951 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
21952 sure. Closes bug 5139.
21953 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
21954 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
21955 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
21956 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
21957 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
21959 o Minor features (IPv6):
21960 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
21961 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
21962 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
21963 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
21964 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
21965 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
21967 o Minor features (hidden services):
21968 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
21969 Required by fix for bug 3460.
21970 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
21971 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
21972 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
21973 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
21974 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
21975 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
21976 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
21977 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
21978 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
21980 o Minor features (relays):
21981 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
21982 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
21983 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
21984 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
21985 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
21986 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
21987 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
21988 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
21989 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21990 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
21991 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
21994 o Minor features (new config options):
21995 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
21996 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
21997 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
21998 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
21999 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
22000 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
22001 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
22002 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
22003 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
22004 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
22005 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
22006 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
22008 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
22009 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
22010 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
22011 Implements issue 933.
22012 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
22013 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
22014 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
22015 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
22016 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
22017 implements ticket 3439.
22018 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
22019 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
22020 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
22021 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
22022 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
22023 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
22024 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
22025 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
22027 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
22028 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
22029 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
22030 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
22031 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
22032 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
22033 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
22034 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
22035 appending to the list.
22036 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
22037 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
22038 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
22039 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
22042 o Minor features (controller, new events):
22043 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
22044 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
22045 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
22046 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
22047 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
22048 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
22050 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
22051 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
22052 circuit-status' control-port command.
22053 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
22054 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
22055 user. Implements ticket 1692.
22056 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
22057 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
22058 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
22060 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
22061 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
22062 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
22063 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
22064 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
22065 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
22066 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
22067 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
22068 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
22070 o Minor features (controller, other):
22071 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
22072 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
22073 part of ticket 3457.
22074 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
22075 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
22076 file. Resolves bug 1101.
22077 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
22078 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
22080 o Minor features (log messages):
22081 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
22082 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
22083 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
22084 please let us know about it.
22085 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
22086 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
22087 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
22088 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
22089 Resolves ticket 2474.
22090 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
22091 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
22093 o Minor features (other):
22094 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
22095 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
22096 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
22097 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
22099 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
22100 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
22101 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
22102 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
22103 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
22104 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
22105 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
22107 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
22108 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
22109 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
22110 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
22111 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
22113 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
22114 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
22115 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
22116 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
22117 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
22118 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
22119 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22120 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
22121 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22122 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
22123 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
22124 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
22125 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
22126 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
22127 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
22128 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
22131 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
22132 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
22133 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
22134 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
22135 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
22136 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
22137 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22138 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
22139 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
22141 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
22142 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
22143 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
22144 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
22145 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
22146 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
22147 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22148 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
22149 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
22150 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22152 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
22153 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
22154 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22155 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
22156 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
22157 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
22158 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22159 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
22160 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
22162 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
22163 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
22164 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
22165 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
22166 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
22167 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
22168 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
22169 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
22170 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
22172 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22173 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
22174 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
22175 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
22176 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
22177 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
22178 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
22180 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
22181 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
22182 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
22183 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
22185 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22186 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
22187 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
22188 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22189 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
22190 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
22191 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
22192 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
22193 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
22194 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
22195 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
22196 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
22199 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
22200 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
22201 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22202 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
22203 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
22204 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
22206 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
22207 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
22208 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22209 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
22210 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
22211 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
22212 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22213 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
22214 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
22215 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
22216 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
22217 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
22218 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
22219 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
22220 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
22222 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
22223 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
22224 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
22225 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
22226 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
22227 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
22229 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
22230 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
22231 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
22232 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
22233 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
22234 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
22235 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
22236 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
22237 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
22238 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
22239 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
22240 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
22241 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
22242 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
22243 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22245 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
22246 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
22247 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
22248 be disabled using the new
22249 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
22250 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22251 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
22252 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
22253 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
22254 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
22255 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
22257 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
22258 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
22259 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
22260 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22261 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
22262 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
22263 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
22265 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
22266 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
22267 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
22268 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
22269 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22270 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
22271 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
22272 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
22274 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
22275 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
22276 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
22277 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22278 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
22279 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
22280 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
22281 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22283 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22284 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
22285 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
22286 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
22287 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
22288 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
22289 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
22290 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
22292 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
22293 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
22294 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
22295 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
22297 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
22298 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
22299 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
22301 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
22302 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
22304 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
22305 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
22306 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
22307 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
22308 case for flushing marked connections.
22309 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
22310 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
22311 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
22312 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
22313 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
22314 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22315 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
22316 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
22317 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
22318 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22320 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22321 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
22322 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
22323 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
22324 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
22325 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
22326 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
22327 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
22328 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
22329 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
22330 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
22332 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
22333 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
22334 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
22335 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
22336 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22338 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
22339 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
22340 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
22341 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
22342 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22343 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
22344 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
22345 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
22346 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
22347 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
22348 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
22349 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
22350 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
22351 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
22352 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
22353 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
22355 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
22356 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
22357 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
22358 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22359 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
22360 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
22361 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22362 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
22363 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22364 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
22365 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
22366 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
22367 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
22368 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
22369 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
22370 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
22371 Implements ticket 3264.
22372 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
22374 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
22375 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
22376 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
22377 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
22378 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
22379 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
22381 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
22382 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
22383 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22384 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
22385 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
22386 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22387 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
22388 them from the other auths.
22389 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
22390 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
22391 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
22392 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22393 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
22394 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
22395 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
22396 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
22400 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
22401 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
22402 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
22404 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
22405 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
22406 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
22407 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
22408 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
22409 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
22410 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
22411 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
22413 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
22414 ./src/test/bench binary.
22415 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
22416 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
22417 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
22418 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
22421 o Build improvements:
22422 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
22423 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
22424 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
22425 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
22426 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
22427 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
22428 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
22429 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22430 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
22431 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
22432 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
22433 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
22434 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
22435 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
22436 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
22437 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
22438 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
22439 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
22440 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
22441 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
22442 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
22444 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
22446 o Build requirements:
22447 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
22448 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
22449 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
22450 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
22451 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
22452 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
22453 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
22454 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
22455 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
22456 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
22457 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
22458 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
22459 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
22461 o Build fixes (compile/link):
22462 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
22463 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
22465 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
22466 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
22467 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
22468 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
22469 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
22470 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
22471 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22472 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
22473 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22475 o Build fixes (other):
22476 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
22477 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
22479 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
22480 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
22481 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
22482 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22483 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
22484 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
22485 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
22486 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
22488 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
22489 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
22492 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
22493 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
22494 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
22495 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
22496 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
22497 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
22498 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
22499 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
22501 o Code refactoring (safety):
22502 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
22503 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
22504 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
22505 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
22506 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
22507 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
22508 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
22509 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
22510 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
22511 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
22512 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
22513 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
22515 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
22516 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
22517 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
22518 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
22519 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
22520 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
22521 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
22522 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
22523 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
22524 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
22525 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
22526 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
22527 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
22528 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
22529 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
22530 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
22531 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
22532 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
22534 o Code refactoring (separate):
22535 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
22536 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
22537 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
22539 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
22540 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
22543 o Code refactoring (name changes):
22544 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
22545 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
22546 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
22547 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
22548 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
22549 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
22550 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
22552 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
22553 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
22554 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
22555 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
22556 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
22557 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
22558 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
22559 invalid value, rather than just -1.
22560 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
22561 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
22562 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
22564 o Code refactoring (other):
22565 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
22566 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
22568 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
22569 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
22570 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
22571 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
22572 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
22573 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
22574 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
22575 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
22576 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
22577 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
22578 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
22579 our library structure used to force them to link it.
22581 o Removed features and files:
22582 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
22583 it would be a bad idea to start.
22584 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
22586 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
22587 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
22588 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
22589 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
22590 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
22591 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
22592 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
22593 are no longer in use as relays.
22594 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
22595 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
22596 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
22597 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
22598 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
22599 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
22603 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
22604 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
22605 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
22607 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
22608 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
22610 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
22611 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
22612 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
22614 o Documentation fixes:
22615 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
22616 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
22617 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
22618 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
22619 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
22620 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
22621 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
22622 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
22625 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
22626 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
22630 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
22631 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
22632 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22633 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
22634 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
22635 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
22636 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
22640 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
22641 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
22642 attack that could in theory leak path information.
22645 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
22646 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
22647 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22648 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
22649 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
22650 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
22651 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
22652 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
22653 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
22654 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
22655 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
22656 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
22657 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
22658 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22661 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
22662 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22663 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22667 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22668 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22669 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22670 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22671 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22672 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22673 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22674 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22675 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22676 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22677 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22680 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22681 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22684 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22685 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22688 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
22689 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
22690 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
22691 and fixes several crash bugs.
22693 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
22694 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
22695 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
22696 those packages and upgrade anyway.
22698 o Directory authority changes:
22699 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22700 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22704 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22705 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22706 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22707 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22708 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22709 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22710 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22711 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22712 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22713 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22714 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22715 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22716 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22717 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22718 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22719 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22720 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22721 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22722 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22723 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22724 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22725 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22726 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22727 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22728 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22729 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22730 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
22733 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22734 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22735 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22736 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22738 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22739 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22741 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22742 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22743 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22744 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22745 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22746 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22747 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22748 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22751 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22752 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22753 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22754 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22755 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22756 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22757 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22758 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22759 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22760 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22761 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22762 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22763 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22764 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22765 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22766 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22767 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22768 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22769 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22770 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22771 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22772 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22773 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22774 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22775 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22776 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22777 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22778 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22779 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22780 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22781 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22782 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22783 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22784 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22785 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22786 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22787 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22788 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22789 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22790 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22791 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
22792 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22793 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22794 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22795 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22796 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22798 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22799 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22800 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22801 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22802 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22803 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22804 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22805 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22806 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22807 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22808 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22809 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22810 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22811 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22812 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22815 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22816 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22817 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22818 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22820 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22823 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22824 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22825 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22826 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22827 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22828 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22829 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22832 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
22833 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
22834 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
22836 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
22837 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
22838 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
22839 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
22840 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
22841 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
22842 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
22843 (which Tor does not do by default).
22845 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
22846 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
22847 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
22848 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
22849 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
22851 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
22852 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
22853 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
22856 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
22857 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
22858 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
22859 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
22860 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22862 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
22863 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
22866 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22867 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22868 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22869 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22870 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
22871 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
22872 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
22873 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
22875 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
22876 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
22877 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
22878 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
22879 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
22880 close based on processing a cell on it.
22881 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22882 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22883 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22884 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22885 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
22886 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
22887 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22888 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
22889 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
22890 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
22891 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
22892 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
22893 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
22894 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
22895 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
22898 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
22899 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
22900 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
22901 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
22902 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
22903 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
22904 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
22906 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
22907 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
22908 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
22909 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
22910 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
22911 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22912 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
22913 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
22914 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22915 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
22916 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
22917 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
22918 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
22919 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22920 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
22921 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
22922 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
22923 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
22924 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22925 Reported by "troll_un".
22926 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
22927 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22928 Reported by "troll_un".
22929 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
22930 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
22931 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
22932 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
22935 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
22936 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
22937 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
22938 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
22939 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
22940 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
22941 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
22942 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
22943 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
22944 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
22945 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22947 o Packaging changes:
22948 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
22949 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
22952 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
22953 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22954 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22955 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22956 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22958 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
22959 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
22961 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22962 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22963 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22964 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22965 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22966 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22967 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22968 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22969 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22972 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22975 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
22976 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
22977 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
22979 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
22980 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
22981 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
22982 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
22983 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
22984 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
22985 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
22986 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
22987 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
22988 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
22989 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
22990 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
22991 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
22993 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
22994 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
22995 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
22996 currently connected to them.
22998 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
22999 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
23000 remain; see for example proposal 188.
23002 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
23003 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23004 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23005 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23006 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23007 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23008 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23009 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23010 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23011 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23012 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23013 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
23014 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
23015 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
23016 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
23017 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
23018 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
23019 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
23022 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
23023 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
23024 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
23025 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
23026 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
23027 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
23028 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
23029 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23030 when bridges were introduced.
23031 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23032 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23033 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23034 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23035 Found by "frosty_un".
23038 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
23039 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
23041 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
23042 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
23043 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
23044 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
23045 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
23046 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
23047 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
23050 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
23051 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
23052 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
23053 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
23054 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
23055 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
23056 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
23057 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
23058 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
23059 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
23060 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
23061 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
23062 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
23063 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
23064 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
23065 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
23066 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
23067 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
23069 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
23070 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
23071 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
23072 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23073 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
23074 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
23075 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
23076 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
23077 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
23078 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
23079 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
23080 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23083 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
23084 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
23085 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
23086 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23089 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
23090 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
23091 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
23092 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
23093 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
23095 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23096 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23097 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23098 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23099 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23100 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23101 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23102 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23103 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23104 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23106 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23107 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23108 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23109 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23110 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23111 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23112 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23113 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23114 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23115 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23116 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23117 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23118 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23119 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23120 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23121 Found by "frosty_un".
23122 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23123 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23124 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23125 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23126 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23127 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23128 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23129 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23130 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23131 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23132 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
23133 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23134 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23135 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23136 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23137 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23138 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23139 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23140 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23142 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23143 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
23144 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
23145 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
23146 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
23147 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23148 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23149 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23151 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23152 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
23153 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23154 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23155 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23156 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23157 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23158 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23159 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23160 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23161 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23162 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23164 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23165 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23166 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
23167 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23168 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
23169 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23170 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23171 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23172 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23174 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
23176 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
23177 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
23178 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
23179 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23180 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
23181 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
23182 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
23183 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23185 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
23186 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
23187 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
23188 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
23189 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23191 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23192 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23193 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23194 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
23195 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23198 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
23199 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
23200 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
23201 reachable from Iran again.
23204 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
23205 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
23206 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23208 o Minor features (security):
23209 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
23210 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
23211 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
23212 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
23213 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
23214 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
23215 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
23216 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
23217 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
23218 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
23221 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23222 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23223 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
23224 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
23225 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
23226 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
23227 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
23228 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
23229 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23231 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
23232 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
23233 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
23234 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
23235 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
23236 raised by bug 3898.
23237 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
23238 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
23239 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
23240 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
23241 fixes part of bug 2442.
23242 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
23243 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
23244 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
23246 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
23247 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
23248 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
23249 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
23250 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23253 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
23254 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23255 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
23256 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
23257 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
23258 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
23261 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
23262 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
23263 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
23264 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
23265 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
23266 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
23267 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
23268 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
23269 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
23270 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
23272 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
23273 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
23274 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
23275 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
23276 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
23277 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
23278 many many other features and bugfixes.
23280 o Major features (client performance):
23281 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
23282 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
23283 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
23284 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
23285 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
23286 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
23288 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
23289 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
23290 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
23291 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
23292 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
23293 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
23294 the first implementation of this feature.
23296 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
23297 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
23298 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
23299 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
23300 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
23301 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
23302 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
23303 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
23304 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
23305 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
23306 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
23307 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
23308 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
23309 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
23310 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
23311 file. Implements ticket 1296.
23313 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
23314 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
23315 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
23316 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
23317 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
23318 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
23319 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
23320 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
23321 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
23322 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
23323 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
23324 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
23325 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
23326 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
23327 they first get the Guard flag.
23328 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
23329 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
23330 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
23331 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
23332 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
23333 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
23334 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
23335 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
23337 o Major features (relays control their load better):
23338 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
23339 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
23340 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
23341 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
23342 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
23343 based on a variant of proposal 163.
23344 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
23345 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
23346 but never per-conn write limits.
23347 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
23348 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
23349 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
23350 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
23352 o Major features (controllers):
23353 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
23354 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
23355 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
23356 contributions to the network.
23357 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
23358 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
23359 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
23361 o Major features (directory authorities):
23362 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
23363 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
23364 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
23366 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
23367 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
23368 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
23369 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
23370 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
23371 download consensus + microdescriptors".
23372 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
23373 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
23374 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
23375 hash algorithm in the future.
23376 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
23377 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
23378 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
23380 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
23381 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
23382 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
23383 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
23384 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
23385 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
23386 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
23387 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
23388 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
23389 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
23390 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
23391 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
23392 connections to directory servers.
23393 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
23394 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
23395 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
23396 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
23397 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
23398 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
23399 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
23400 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
23401 information, or fetch directory information.
23402 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
23403 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
23404 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
23405 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
23406 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
23408 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
23409 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
23410 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
23411 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
23412 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
23413 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
23414 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
23415 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
23416 the network changes.
23417 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
23418 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
23420 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
23421 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
23422 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
23423 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
23424 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
23425 unless you really want your Tor to break.
23426 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
23427 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
23428 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
23429 - When StrictNodes is 1:
23430 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
23431 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
23432 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
23433 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
23434 reachability self-tests.
23435 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
23436 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
23437 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
23438 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
23439 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
23441 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
23442 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23443 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
23445 o Major features (misc):
23446 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
23447 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
23448 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
23449 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
23450 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
23451 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
23452 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
23453 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
23454 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
23455 part of ticket 3076.
23456 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
23457 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
23458 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
23460 o Code security improvements:
23461 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23462 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23463 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23464 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23465 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23466 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23467 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
23468 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
23469 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
23470 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23471 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
23472 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
23473 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
23474 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
23475 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
23476 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
23477 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23478 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
23479 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
23480 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
23481 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
23482 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
23483 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
23484 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
23485 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
23486 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
23487 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
23488 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
23490 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23491 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
23492 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
23493 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
23494 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
23495 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
23496 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
23497 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23498 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23499 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23500 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23501 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23502 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23504 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
23505 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
23506 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
23508 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
23509 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
23511 o Major bugfixes (stability):
23512 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23513 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23514 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23515 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23516 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23517 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
23518 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
23519 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
23520 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
23521 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
23522 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
23523 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
23524 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
23525 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
23526 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
23527 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
23529 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
23530 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
23531 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
23533 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
23534 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
23535 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
23536 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
23537 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
23538 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
23539 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
23540 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
23541 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
23542 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
23543 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
23544 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
23545 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
23546 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
23547 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
23548 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23549 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
23550 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23551 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23553 o Privacy fixes (clients):
23554 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23555 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23556 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23557 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23558 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23559 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23560 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
23561 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
23562 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
23564 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
23565 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
23566 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
23567 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
23568 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
23569 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
23570 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
23571 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
23572 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
23573 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
23575 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
23576 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23577 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23578 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23579 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
23580 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
23581 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23582 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23583 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23584 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23585 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23586 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23587 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23589 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
23590 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
23591 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
23592 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
23593 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
23594 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
23595 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
23596 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
23597 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
23598 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23600 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
23601 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
23602 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
23603 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
23604 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
23605 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
23606 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
23608 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
23609 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
23610 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
23611 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
23612 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
23613 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
23614 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
23615 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
23616 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
23617 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
23618 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
23619 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
23620 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
23621 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
23622 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
23624 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
23625 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
23626 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
23627 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
23628 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
23629 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
23630 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
23632 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
23633 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
23634 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
23635 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
23636 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
23637 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
23638 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
23639 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
23641 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
23642 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
23643 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
23644 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
23645 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
23646 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
23647 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
23648 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
23649 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
23650 the longest-lived bug prize.
23651 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
23652 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
23653 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
23654 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
23655 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
23656 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
23657 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
23658 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
23659 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
23660 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
23662 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
23663 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
23664 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
23665 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
23666 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
23667 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
23670 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23671 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
23672 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
23673 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
23674 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
23675 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
23676 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
23677 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
23678 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
23679 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
23680 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
23681 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23682 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
23683 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
23684 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
23685 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
23686 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
23687 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
23688 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
23689 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
23690 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
23691 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
23692 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
23693 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
23694 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
23695 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
23697 o Major bugfixes (misc):
23698 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
23699 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
23700 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23701 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
23702 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
23703 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
23704 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
23705 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
23707 o Minor features (relays):
23708 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
23709 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
23710 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
23711 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
23712 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
23713 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
23714 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
23715 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
23717 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
23718 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
23719 Resolves ticket 3252.
23720 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
23721 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
23723 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
23724 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
23725 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
23726 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
23727 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
23729 o Minor features (network statistics):
23730 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
23731 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
23732 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
23733 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
23734 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
23735 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
23736 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
23737 measure download times.
23738 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23739 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
23741 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
23742 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
23743 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23744 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
23746 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
23747 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
23748 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
23750 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
23751 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
23752 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
23753 Implements ticket 2432.
23754 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
23755 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
23756 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
23757 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
23758 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
23759 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
23760 Implements enhancement 1790.
23761 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
23762 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
23764 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
23765 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
23766 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
23767 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
23768 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
23769 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
23770 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
23772 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23774 o Minor features (clients):
23775 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
23776 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
23777 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
23778 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
23780 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
23781 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
23782 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
23783 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
23784 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
23785 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
23786 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
23787 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
23789 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
23790 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
23791 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
23792 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
23793 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
23794 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
23795 SSL handshake issues.
23797 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23798 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
23799 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
23800 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
23801 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
23802 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
23803 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
23804 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
23805 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
23806 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
23807 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
23808 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
23809 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
23810 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
23811 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
23812 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
23813 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
23814 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
23815 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
23816 hour of their uptime.
23817 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
23818 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
23819 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
23820 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
23822 o Minor features (hidden services):
23823 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
23824 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
23825 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
23826 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
23827 Required by fix for bug 3000.
23828 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
23829 by fix for bug 3000.
23830 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
23831 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
23832 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
23833 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
23834 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
23836 o Minor features (controller interface):
23837 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
23838 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
23839 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
23840 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
23841 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
23842 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
23843 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
23844 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
23845 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
23846 over our stored history.
23847 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
23848 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
23849 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
23851 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
23852 to the circuit build timeout.
23853 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
23854 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
23855 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
23857 o Minor features (controller protocol):
23858 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
23859 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
23860 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
23862 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
23863 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
23864 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
23865 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
23866 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
23867 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
23868 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
23869 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
23870 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
23871 arguments we do not recognize.
23873 o Minor features (more useful logging):
23874 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
23875 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
23876 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
23877 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
23878 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
23879 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
23880 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
23881 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
23882 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
23883 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
23884 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
23885 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
23886 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
23887 got suppressed since the last warning.
23888 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
23889 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
23890 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
23891 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
23892 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
23893 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
23894 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
23896 o Minor features (log domains):
23897 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
23898 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
23899 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
23901 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
23902 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
23904 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
23905 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
23906 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
23908 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
23909 during the TLS handshake.
23911 o Minor features (build process):
23912 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
23913 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
23914 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
23916 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
23917 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
23918 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
23920 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
23921 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
23922 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
23923 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
23924 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
23925 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
23927 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
23928 source files Tor was built with.
23929 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
23930 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
23931 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
23932 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
23933 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
23934 speeds up the build considerably.
23936 o Minor features (options / torrc):
23937 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
23938 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
23939 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
23940 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
23941 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
23942 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
23943 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
23944 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
23945 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
23946 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
23947 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
23948 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
23949 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
23950 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
23951 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
23952 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
23953 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
23954 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
23955 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
23956 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
23957 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
23958 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
23959 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
23960 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
23961 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
23962 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
23963 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
23965 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
23966 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
23967 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
23970 o Minor features (unit tests):
23971 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
23972 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
23973 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
23974 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
23975 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
23976 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
23978 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
23979 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
23982 o Minor features (misc):
23983 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
23984 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
23985 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
23986 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
23988 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
23989 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
23990 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
23991 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
23992 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
23994 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
23995 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
23996 open() without checking it.
23997 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
23998 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
23999 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
24000 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
24002 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24003 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
24004 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
24005 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
24006 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
24007 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
24008 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
24009 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
24010 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
24011 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
24012 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
24013 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
24014 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
24015 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
24016 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
24017 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
24018 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
24019 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
24020 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
24021 based on the time during which we were active and not in
24022 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
24023 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
24024 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
24025 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
24026 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24027 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
24028 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
24029 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
24031 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
24032 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
24033 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
24034 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
24036 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24037 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
24038 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
24039 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
24040 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
24042 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
24043 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
24044 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24045 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
24046 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
24047 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
24048 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
24049 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
24050 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
24051 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
24052 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
24053 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
24054 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
24056 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24057 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
24058 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
24059 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
24060 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
24061 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
24062 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
24063 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
24064 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
24065 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
24066 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
24067 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
24068 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
24069 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
24070 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
24071 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
24072 two-hop circuits are actually created.
24073 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
24074 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
24075 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
24076 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
24078 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
24079 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
24080 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
24081 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
24082 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
24083 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
24084 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
24085 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
24086 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
24088 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
24089 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
24090 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
24091 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
24092 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
24093 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
24094 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
24095 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
24096 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
24097 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
24098 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
24099 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
24100 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
24103 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24104 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
24105 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
24106 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
24107 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24108 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
24109 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
24110 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
24111 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
24112 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
24113 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
24115 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
24116 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
24118 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
24119 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
24120 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
24121 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
24122 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24123 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
24124 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
24125 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
24127 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
24128 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
24129 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
24130 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24131 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
24132 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
24133 discovered by katmagic.
24134 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
24135 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
24137 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
24138 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
24139 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
24140 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
24141 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
24142 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
24143 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
24144 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
24145 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
24147 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
24148 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
24150 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
24151 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
24153 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
24154 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
24156 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
24157 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
24158 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
24159 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
24160 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
24161 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
24162 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
24163 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
24164 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
24165 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
24166 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
24167 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
24168 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
24169 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
24170 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
24172 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
24173 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
24174 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
24175 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
24176 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
24177 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
24178 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
24179 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
24180 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
24182 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
24183 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
24184 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
24186 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
24187 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
24188 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
24189 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
24191 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
24192 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
24193 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
24194 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
24195 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24196 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
24197 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
24199 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
24200 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
24201 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
24202 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24203 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
24204 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
24206 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
24207 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
24208 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
24209 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
24210 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
24211 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
24212 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
24213 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24214 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
24216 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
24217 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
24218 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24219 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
24220 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24221 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
24222 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
24223 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
24224 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
24225 control-spec.txt said they were.
24227 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24228 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
24229 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
24231 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
24232 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24233 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
24234 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
24235 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
24237 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
24238 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
24240 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
24241 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
24242 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
24243 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
24244 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
24245 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
24246 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
24248 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
24249 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
24250 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
24251 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24252 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
24253 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
24254 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
24255 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
24258 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
24259 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
24260 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
24261 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
24262 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
24263 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
24264 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
24265 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
24266 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
24267 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
24268 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
24269 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24270 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
24271 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
24272 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
24274 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
24275 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
24276 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
24277 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
24278 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
24279 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24280 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
24282 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
24283 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
24286 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
24287 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
24288 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
24289 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
24290 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24291 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24292 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
24293 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
24294 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
24295 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
24296 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
24297 fixes part of bug 3407.
24298 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24299 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
24300 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
24301 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
24302 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
24303 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
24304 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
24305 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
24306 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
24307 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
24309 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
24310 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
24311 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
24312 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
24313 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
24314 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
24315 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
24316 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24317 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
24318 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
24319 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
24320 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24321 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
24322 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
24323 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24324 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
24325 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
24327 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
24328 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
24329 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
24330 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
24331 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
24332 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
24333 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24334 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
24335 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
24336 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
24337 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
24338 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
24340 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
24341 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
24342 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
24343 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
24344 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
24346 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
24347 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
24348 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
24349 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
24351 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
24352 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
24353 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
24354 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
24355 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
24356 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
24357 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
24358 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
24359 structures and defines in or.h for now.
24360 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
24362 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
24363 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
24364 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
24365 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
24366 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
24367 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
24368 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
24369 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
24371 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
24372 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
24373 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
24375 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24376 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
24377 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
24378 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
24379 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
24380 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
24381 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
24382 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
24383 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
24384 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
24386 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
24388 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
24389 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
24390 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
24391 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
24392 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
24393 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
24394 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
24395 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
24396 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
24397 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
24399 o Documentation changes:
24400 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
24401 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
24403 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
24404 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
24405 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
24406 what should go in a patch.
24407 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
24409 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
24410 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
24411 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
24412 projects directory in svn.
24414 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
24415 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
24416 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
24417 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
24418 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
24419 hidden service usage.
24420 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
24421 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
24422 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
24423 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
24424 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
24427 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
24428 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
24429 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
24430 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
24431 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
24434 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
24435 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
24436 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
24437 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
24438 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
24439 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
24440 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
24441 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
24442 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
24443 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
24444 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
24445 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
24446 via application-level web tricks.
24447 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
24448 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
24449 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
24450 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
24451 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
24452 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
24453 send a body too). Since only server versions before
24454 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
24455 keep the workaround in place.
24456 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
24457 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
24458 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
24459 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
24460 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
24461 want to do it differently.
24462 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
24463 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
24464 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
24467 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
24468 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
24469 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
24470 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
24471 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
24472 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
24475 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24476 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
24477 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
24478 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
24479 the rest of bug 1074.
24480 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
24481 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24482 Found by "piebeer".
24483 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
24484 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
24485 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
24486 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
24487 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
24488 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
24489 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24492 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
24494 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24497 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
24498 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
24499 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
24500 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
24501 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
24502 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
24503 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
24504 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
24505 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
24506 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
24507 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24509 o Packaging changes:
24510 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
24511 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
24512 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
24513 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
24514 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
24515 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
24518 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
24519 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
24520 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
24521 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
24522 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
24524 o Major bugfixes (security):
24525 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
24526 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
24527 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
24529 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
24530 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
24531 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
24532 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
24533 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
24534 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
24535 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
24536 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
24538 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24539 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
24540 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
24541 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
24542 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
24543 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
24544 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
24545 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
24546 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
24547 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
24548 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
24549 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
24550 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
24551 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
24554 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24555 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
24556 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
24557 bug reported by doorss.
24558 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
24559 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
24560 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24561 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
24562 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
24564 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
24565 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
24566 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
24567 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
24568 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24571 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24572 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
24575 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
24576 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
24577 Automake 1.7 or later.
24578 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
24579 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
24580 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
24581 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
24584 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
24585 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
24586 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
24587 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
24591 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
24592 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
24593 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
24594 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
24596 o Directory authority changes:
24597 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
24600 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24603 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
24604 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
24605 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
24606 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
24607 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
24610 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
24611 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
24612 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
24613 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
24614 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24615 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
24616 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
24617 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
24618 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
24619 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24620 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
24621 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
24622 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
24623 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
24624 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
24625 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
24626 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
24627 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24628 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
24629 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
24630 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
24631 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
24632 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
24635 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
24636 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
24637 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
24638 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
24640 o New directory authorities:
24641 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
24645 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
24646 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
24647 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
24649 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
24650 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24651 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
24652 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
24653 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
24654 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
24656 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
24657 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
24658 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
24661 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
24662 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
24663 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
24664 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
24665 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
24666 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
24667 Patch from mingw-san.
24670 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
24671 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
24672 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
24673 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
24674 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
24675 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
24678 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
24679 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
24680 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
24681 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
24682 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
24684 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
24685 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
24688 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
24689 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
24690 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
24691 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
24692 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
24693 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
24694 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
24695 their directory fetches over TLS).
24696 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
24697 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
24698 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
24699 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
24700 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
24701 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
24702 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
24703 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
24706 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
24707 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
24711 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
24712 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24713 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
24714 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
24715 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
24716 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
24717 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24720 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
24721 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
24722 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
24723 several minor potential security bugs.
24726 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
24727 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
24728 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
24729 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
24730 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
24731 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
24732 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
24735 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
24736 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
24738 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
24739 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
24740 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
24741 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
24744 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
24745 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
24749 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
24750 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
24751 customized patches to run/build.
24754 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
24755 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
24756 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
24759 o Major bugfixes (performance):
24760 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
24761 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
24762 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
24763 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
24764 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
24765 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
24766 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
24769 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
24770 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
24771 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
24772 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
24773 libraries in a security patch.
24774 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
24775 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
24776 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
24777 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
24781 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
24782 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
24785 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
24786 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
24787 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
24788 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
24789 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
24792 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
24793 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
24794 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
24795 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
24796 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
24798 o Directory authority changes:
24799 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
24803 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
24804 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
24805 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24808 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
24809 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
24810 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
24811 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
24812 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
24815 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
24816 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
24817 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
24818 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
24819 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
24820 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
24821 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
24824 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
24825 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
24826 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24827 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
24828 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
24829 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
24831 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
24832 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
24835 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
24836 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
24837 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
24838 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24840 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
24841 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
24843 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
24844 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
24845 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
24846 in the Vidalia Settings window.
24849 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
24850 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
24851 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
24852 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
24853 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
24855 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
24856 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
24858 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
24859 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
24860 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
24863 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
24864 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
24865 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
24867 o New directory authorities:
24868 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
24870 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24873 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
24874 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
24876 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
24877 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
24878 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24879 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
24880 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
24881 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
24882 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24883 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24884 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
24885 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
24886 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
24887 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
24888 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
24889 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
24890 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
24891 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
24892 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
24894 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
24895 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
24896 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
24898 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
24899 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
24903 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
24904 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
24905 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
24906 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
24907 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
24910 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
24911 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
24915 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
24916 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
24917 part of patch provided by "optimist".
24920 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
24921 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
24922 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
24923 and confuse fewer users.
24926 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
24927 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
24928 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
24929 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
24930 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
24931 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
24932 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
24935 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
24936 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
24937 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
24938 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
24939 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
24940 other features and bug fixes.
24942 o Major features (clients):
24943 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
24944 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
24945 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
24946 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
24948 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
24949 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
24950 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
24951 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
24952 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
24953 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
24954 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
24955 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
24956 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
24957 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
24959 o Major features (relays):
24960 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
24961 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
24962 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
24963 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
24964 data. Found by Jacob.
24965 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
24966 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
24967 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
24968 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
24970 o Major features (hidden services):
24971 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
24972 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
24973 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
24974 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
24975 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
24976 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
24977 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
24978 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
24979 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
24980 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
24981 lookups more reliable.
24983 o Major features (path selection):
24984 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
24985 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
24986 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
24987 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
24988 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
24990 o Major features (misc):
24991 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
24992 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
24994 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
24995 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
24996 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
24997 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
24998 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
24999 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
25001 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
25002 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
25003 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
25004 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
25006 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
25009 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
25010 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
25011 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
25012 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
25013 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
25014 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
25015 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
25016 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
25017 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
25018 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
25019 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
25020 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
25021 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
25022 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
25023 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
25024 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
25025 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
25026 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
25027 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
25028 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
25029 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25030 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
25031 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
25032 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
25033 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
25034 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
25035 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
25036 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
25037 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
25038 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
25039 Implements proposal 148.
25041 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25042 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
25043 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
25044 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
25045 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
25046 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
25048 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
25049 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
25050 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
25051 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
25052 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
25053 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25054 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
25055 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25056 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
25058 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
25059 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
25060 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
25061 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
25063 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
25064 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
25065 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
25066 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
25067 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
25068 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
25069 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
25070 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
25071 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25073 o Major bugfixes (clients):
25074 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
25075 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
25076 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
25077 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
25078 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
25079 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
25080 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
25081 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
25082 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
25083 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
25084 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
25085 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
25086 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
25087 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
25088 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
25091 o Major bugfixes (relays):
25092 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
25093 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
25094 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
25095 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
25096 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
25097 patch by Sebastian.
25098 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25099 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25100 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25101 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
25102 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
25103 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
25104 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
25105 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
25106 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
25107 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
25110 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25111 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
25112 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
25113 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
25114 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
25115 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
25117 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
25118 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
25119 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
25120 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
25121 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
25122 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
25123 on a typical directory cache.
25124 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
25125 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
25126 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
25127 and may reduce fragmentation.
25129 o New/changed config options:
25130 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
25131 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
25132 Suggested by Lucky Green.
25133 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
25134 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
25135 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
25136 locked down these days.
25137 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
25138 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25139 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
25140 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
25141 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
25142 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
25143 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
25144 output to messages of warning and error severity.
25145 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
25146 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
25147 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
25148 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
25149 directory requests we should expect to see.
25150 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
25151 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
25152 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
25153 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
25154 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
25155 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
25156 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
25158 o Minor features (relays):
25159 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
25160 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
25161 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
25162 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
25163 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
25165 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
25166 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
25167 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
25168 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
25169 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
25170 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
25171 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
25172 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
25173 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
25174 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
25175 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
25176 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
25177 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
25179 o Minor features (directory authorities):
25180 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
25181 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
25182 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
25183 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
25184 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
25185 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
25186 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
25187 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
25188 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
25189 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
25191 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
25192 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
25193 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
25194 fingerprints with or without space.
25196 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
25197 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
25198 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
25199 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
25200 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
25201 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
25202 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
25203 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
25204 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
25206 o Minor features (bridges):
25207 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
25208 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
25210 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
25211 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
25214 o Minor features (hidden services):
25215 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
25216 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
25217 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
25218 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
25219 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
25220 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
25221 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
25222 faster after restart.
25223 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
25224 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
25226 o Minor features (build and packaging):
25227 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
25229 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
25230 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
25232 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
25233 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
25234 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
25235 entirely. Patch from coderman.
25236 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
25237 are built without support for deprecated functions.
25238 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
25239 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
25240 system to do it for us.
25241 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
25242 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
25243 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
25244 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
25245 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
25246 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
25247 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
25248 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
25249 the letter of C99's alias rules.
25250 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
25251 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
25252 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
25253 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
25254 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
25255 with log.h on Android.
25256 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
25257 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
25259 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
25260 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
25261 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
25262 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
25264 o Minor features (controllers):
25265 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
25266 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
25267 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
25268 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
25269 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
25270 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
25271 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
25272 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
25273 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
25274 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
25276 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
25277 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
25278 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
25279 been fetched and validated.
25280 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
25281 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
25283 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
25285 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
25286 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
25287 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
25288 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
25289 partway through and wants to catch up.
25290 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
25292 o Minor features (tools):
25293 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
25294 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
25295 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
25296 people find host:port too confusing.
25297 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
25298 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
25300 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
25301 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
25302 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25303 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
25304 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
25305 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
25306 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
25307 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
25308 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
25310 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
25311 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
25312 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
25313 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
25314 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
25316 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
25317 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
25318 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
25320 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
25321 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25322 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
25323 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
25324 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
25325 have already been marked for close.
25326 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
25327 memory performance during directory parsing.
25329 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
25330 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
25331 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
25332 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
25333 done that for a long time.
25334 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
25335 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
25336 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
25337 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
25338 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
25339 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
25340 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
25341 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
25342 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25343 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
25344 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
25345 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
25346 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
25347 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
25348 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
25349 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
25350 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
25351 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
25352 because of a pending download.
25353 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
25354 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
25355 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
25356 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
25357 bug 820, reported by seeess.
25359 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
25360 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
25361 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
25362 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
25363 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
25364 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
25365 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
25366 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
25367 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
25369 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
25370 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
25372 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
25373 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
25374 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25375 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
25376 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
25377 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
25378 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
25379 of 0. Suggested by lark.
25380 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
25381 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
25382 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
25383 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
25384 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
25386 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
25387 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
25388 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
25390 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
25391 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
25393 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
25394 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
25395 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
25396 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
25397 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
25398 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
25399 rest, and don't automatically fail.
25400 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
25401 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
25402 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
25403 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
25404 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
25405 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25407 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25408 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
25409 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
25410 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
25411 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
25412 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
25413 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
25415 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
25416 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25418 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25419 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
25420 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
25421 Workaround for bug 1024.
25422 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
25423 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
25424 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
25425 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
25426 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
25427 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
25428 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
25429 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
25432 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
25433 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
25436 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
25437 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
25438 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
25439 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
25440 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
25441 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
25442 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
25444 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
25445 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
25446 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
25447 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
25448 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
25449 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
25450 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
25451 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
25454 o Deprecated and removed features:
25455 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
25456 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
25457 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
25459 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
25461 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
25462 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
25463 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
25464 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
25465 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
25466 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
25467 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
25468 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
25469 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
25470 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
25471 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
25472 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
25473 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
25474 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
25477 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25478 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
25479 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
25480 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
25481 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
25483 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
25484 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
25485 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
25486 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
25487 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
25488 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
25489 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
25490 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
25491 actual mistakes we're making here.
25492 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
25493 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
25494 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
25495 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
25496 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
25497 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
25498 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
25499 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
25500 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
25501 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
25502 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
25503 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
25504 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
25505 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
25506 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
25509 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
25511 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
25512 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
25513 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
25514 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
25515 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
25518 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
25519 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
25520 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
25521 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
25522 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
25523 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
25524 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
25525 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
25526 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
25527 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
25530 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
25531 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
25532 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
25533 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
25534 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
25535 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
25536 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
25537 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
25540 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
25541 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
25542 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
25543 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
25544 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
25546 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
25547 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
25548 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
25549 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
25552 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
25553 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25554 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
25555 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
25556 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
25557 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
25558 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
25559 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
25562 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
25563 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
25564 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
25565 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
25568 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
25569 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
25570 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
25571 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
25573 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
25574 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
25575 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
25578 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
25579 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
25582 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
25583 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
25584 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
25585 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
25586 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
25587 reported by "wood".
25588 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
25589 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
25590 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
25591 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
25592 identify a connection.
25593 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
25594 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
25595 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
25596 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
25597 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
25598 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
25599 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25600 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
25601 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
25602 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
25604 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
25605 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
25606 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
25607 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
25608 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
25609 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
25610 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
25613 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
25614 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
25616 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
25617 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
25618 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
25619 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
25620 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
25621 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
25622 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25623 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
25625 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
25626 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
25627 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
25628 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
25629 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
25630 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
25631 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
25632 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
25633 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
25634 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
25635 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
25636 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
25637 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
25638 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
25639 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25640 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
25641 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
25642 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25643 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
25644 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
25645 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
25646 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
25647 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
25648 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
25649 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
25650 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
25651 840. Patch from rovv.
25652 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
25653 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
25654 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
25656 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
25657 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
25658 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
25659 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
25660 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
25661 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
25662 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
25664 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25665 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
25666 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
25669 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
25670 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
25672 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
25673 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
25674 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
25675 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
25676 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
25677 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
25678 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
25679 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
25680 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
25682 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
25684 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
25685 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
25689 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
25690 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
25691 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
25692 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
25693 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
25694 variety of other issues.
25697 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
25698 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
25699 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
25700 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
25701 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
25702 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
25703 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
25704 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
25705 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
25706 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
25707 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
25708 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
25711 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
25712 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25714 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25715 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
25716 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
25717 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
25718 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
25719 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
25720 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25721 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
25722 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
25723 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
25724 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
25725 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
25726 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
25727 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
25728 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
25732 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
25733 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
25734 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
25735 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
25736 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
25737 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
25738 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
25739 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
25740 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
25741 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
25742 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
25743 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
25744 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
25745 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
25746 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
25747 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
25748 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
25749 list. It has been gone for many months.
25750 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
25751 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
25752 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
25755 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25756 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
25757 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
25760 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
25761 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
25762 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
25763 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25766 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25767 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25768 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25769 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
25770 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
25771 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
25773 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
25774 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
25775 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
25776 pointed out by rovv.
25779 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
25780 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25781 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
25782 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25783 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
25784 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
25785 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
25786 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
25787 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
25788 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25789 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
25790 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
25791 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
25792 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25793 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
25794 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
25795 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
25796 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
25797 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
25798 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
25799 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
25802 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
25803 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
25804 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
25805 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
25806 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
25807 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
25808 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
25810 o New v3 directory design:
25811 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
25812 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
25813 network status document rather than each publishing their own
25814 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
25815 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
25816 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
25817 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
25819 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
25820 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
25821 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
25822 dannenberg (run by CCC).
25823 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
25824 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
25825 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
25826 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
25827 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
25828 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
25829 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
25830 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
25831 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
25832 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
25834 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
25835 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
25836 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
25837 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
25838 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
25839 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
25840 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
25841 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
25842 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
25843 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
25844 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
25845 certain censored countries by default again.
25846 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
25847 Tor's x509 certificates.
25849 o Implement bridge relays:
25850 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
25851 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
25852 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
25853 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
25854 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
25855 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
25856 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
25857 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
25858 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
25859 rather than "v2,v3".
25860 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
25861 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
25862 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
25863 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
25864 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
25865 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
25866 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
25867 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
25868 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
25869 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
25870 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
25872 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
25873 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
25874 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
25875 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
25876 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
25877 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
25878 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
25879 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
25880 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
25881 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
25882 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
25883 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
25884 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
25885 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
25886 bridges are functioning.
25887 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
25888 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
25889 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
25890 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
25891 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
25892 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
25893 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
25894 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
25895 knows that password. Unset by default.
25896 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
25897 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
25898 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
25899 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
25900 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
25901 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
25902 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
25903 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
25904 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
25905 and bridges@torproject.org.
25907 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
25908 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
25909 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
25910 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
25911 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
25912 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
25913 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
25914 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
25915 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
25916 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
25917 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
25918 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
25919 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
25920 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
25921 longer a completely silly thing to do.
25923 o Major features (relay usability):
25924 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
25925 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
25926 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
25927 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
25928 proposal 111 for details.
25929 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
25930 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
25931 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
25932 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
25934 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
25935 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
25936 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
25938 o Major features (directory authorities):
25939 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
25940 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
25941 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
25942 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
25943 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
25944 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
25945 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25946 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
25947 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
25948 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
25949 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25950 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
25951 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
25953 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
25954 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
25955 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
25956 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
25957 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
25958 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
25959 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
25960 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
25961 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
25962 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
25963 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
25964 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
25965 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
25966 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
25967 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
25968 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
25969 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
25970 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
25971 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
25972 general, controller, or bridge.
25974 o Major features (other):
25975 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
25976 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
25977 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
25978 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
25979 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25980 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
25981 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
25982 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
25983 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
25984 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
25985 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
25986 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
25987 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
25988 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
25991 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
25992 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
25993 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
25995 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
25996 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
25997 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
25998 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
25999 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
26000 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
26001 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
26002 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
26003 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
26004 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
26005 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
26007 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
26008 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
26010 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
26011 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
26012 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
26013 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
26015 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
26016 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
26017 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
26018 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
26019 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
26021 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
26022 address maps to an internal address space.
26023 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
26024 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
26025 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
26026 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
26027 complements proposal 107.
26028 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
26029 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
26030 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
26031 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
26032 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
26033 reported by taranis and lodger.
26034 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
26035 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
26036 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
26037 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
26038 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
26039 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
26040 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
26041 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
26042 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
26043 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
26044 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
26045 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
26046 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
26048 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
26049 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
26051 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
26052 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
26053 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
26054 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
26055 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
26056 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
26057 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
26059 o Major bugfixes (other):
26060 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
26061 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
26062 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
26064 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
26065 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
26066 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
26067 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
26068 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
26069 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
26070 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
26071 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
26072 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
26073 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
26074 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
26075 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
26076 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
26077 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
26078 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
26079 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
26080 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
26081 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
26082 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
26084 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
26085 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
26086 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
26087 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
26088 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
26089 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
26090 eat all of our bandwidth.
26091 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
26092 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
26093 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
26094 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
26095 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
26096 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
26097 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
26098 bug 688, reported by mfr.
26099 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
26100 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
26101 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
26102 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
26104 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
26105 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
26106 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
26107 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
26108 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
26109 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
26110 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
26111 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
26112 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
26113 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
26114 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
26115 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
26117 o Performance improvements (memory):
26118 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
26119 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
26120 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
26121 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
26122 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
26123 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
26124 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
26125 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
26126 memory fragmentation.
26127 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
26128 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
26129 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
26130 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
26131 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
26133 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
26134 of them were actually distinct.
26135 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
26137 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
26138 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
26139 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
26140 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
26141 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
26142 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
26143 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
26144 performance-intensive.
26145 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
26146 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
26147 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
26148 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
26149 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
26152 o Performance improvements (socket management):
26153 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
26154 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
26155 our allocated connection limit.
26156 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
26157 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
26158 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
26159 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
26160 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
26162 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
26163 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
26165 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
26166 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
26167 is interested in a given message.
26168 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
26169 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
26170 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
26171 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
26172 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
26174 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
26175 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
26176 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
26178 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
26179 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
26180 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
26181 they are the same).
26182 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
26183 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
26184 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
26185 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
26188 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
26189 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
26190 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
26191 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
26192 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
26193 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
26194 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
26196 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
26197 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
26198 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
26199 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
26200 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
26201 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
26202 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
26203 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
26204 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
26205 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
26206 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
26207 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
26208 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
26211 o Changed config option behavior (features):
26212 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
26213 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
26214 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
26215 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
26216 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
26217 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
26218 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
26219 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
26220 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
26221 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
26222 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
26223 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
26224 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
26225 and are reaching it.
26226 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
26227 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
26228 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
26229 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
26231 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
26232 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
26233 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
26234 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
26235 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
26236 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
26237 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
26238 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
26239 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
26241 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
26242 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
26243 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
26244 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
26245 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
26246 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
26247 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
26248 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
26250 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
26251 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
26253 o New config options:
26254 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
26255 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
26256 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
26257 running a test network on a single host.
26258 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
26259 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
26260 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
26261 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
26262 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
26263 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
26264 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
26265 the approved-routers file.
26266 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
26267 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
26268 v2 directory information.
26270 o Minor features (other):
26271 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
26272 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
26273 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
26274 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
26275 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
26276 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
26278 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
26279 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
26280 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
26281 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
26282 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
26283 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
26284 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
26286 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
26287 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
26288 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
26290 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
26291 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
26292 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
26293 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
26294 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
26296 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
26297 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
26298 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
26299 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
26300 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
26301 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
26302 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
26304 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
26305 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
26306 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
26307 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
26308 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
26309 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
26310 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
26311 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
26312 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
26315 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26316 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
26317 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
26319 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
26320 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
26321 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
26322 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
26323 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
26324 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
26326 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
26327 bandwidthburst values.
26328 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
26329 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
26330 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
26331 to mark all our entry points down.
26332 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
26333 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
26334 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
26335 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
26336 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
26338 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
26339 more often than they are allowed to appear.
26340 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
26341 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26342 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
26343 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
26344 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
26345 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
26346 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
26348 o Controller features:
26349 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
26350 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
26351 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
26352 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
26353 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
26354 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
26356 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
26357 multiple controller passwords.
26358 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
26359 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
26360 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
26361 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
26363 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
26364 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
26365 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
26366 cookie authentication file, and config option
26367 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
26368 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
26369 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26370 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
26372 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
26373 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
26374 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
26375 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
26376 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
26377 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
26378 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
26380 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
26381 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
26383 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
26384 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
26385 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
26386 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
26387 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
26388 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
26389 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
26390 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
26391 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
26392 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
26393 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
26394 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
26395 report the value as a "minimum skew."
26397 o Controller bugfixes:
26398 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
26399 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
26400 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
26401 processes can't run us out of memory.
26402 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
26403 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
26404 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
26406 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
26407 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
26408 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
26409 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
26410 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
26411 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
26412 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
26413 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
26414 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
26415 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
26416 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
26417 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
26418 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
26419 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
26420 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
26422 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
26423 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
26425 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
26426 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
26427 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
26428 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
26429 WARN-severity events.
26431 o Portability / building / compiling:
26432 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
26433 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
26434 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
26435 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
26436 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
26437 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
26438 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
26439 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
26440 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
26441 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
26442 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
26443 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
26444 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
26446 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
26447 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
26448 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
26449 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
26450 Use this version consistently in log messages.
26451 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
26452 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26453 partial results on small file reads.
26454 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
26455 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
26456 a directory. Fix from lodger.
26457 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
26458 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
26459 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
26461 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
26462 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
26463 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
26464 logging for the unit tests.
26465 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
26466 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
26468 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
26469 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
26471 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
26472 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
26473 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
26474 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
26477 o Logging improvements:
26478 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
26479 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
26480 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
26481 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
26482 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
26483 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
26484 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
26486 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
26487 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
26488 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
26489 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
26490 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
26491 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
26492 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
26493 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
26494 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
26495 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
26496 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
26497 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
26498 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26499 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
26500 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
26501 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
26502 Good in combination with --hash-password.
26503 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
26504 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
26506 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
26507 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
26508 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
26509 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
26511 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
26512 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
26513 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
26514 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
26515 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
26517 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
26518 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
26519 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
26520 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
26521 makes the log messages nicer.
26522 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
26523 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
26525 o Contributed scripts and tools:
26526 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
26527 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
26529 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
26530 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
26531 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
26532 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
26533 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
26534 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
26535 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
26536 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
26537 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
26538 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
26540 o Newly deprecated features:
26541 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
26542 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
26543 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
26544 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
26546 o Removed features:
26547 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
26548 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
26549 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
26550 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
26551 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
26553 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
26554 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
26555 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
26556 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
26557 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
26558 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
26559 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
26560 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
26562 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
26563 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
26564 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
26565 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
26566 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
26567 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
26569 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
26570 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
26571 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
26572 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
26573 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
26574 patch from Karsten Loesing.
26575 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
26576 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
26577 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
26578 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
26579 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
26580 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
26581 code), this assumption no longer holds.
26582 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
26586 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
26587 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
26588 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
26589 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
26592 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
26593 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
26594 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
26595 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
26596 on network address.
26599 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
26600 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
26601 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
26602 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
26603 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
26604 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
26605 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
26606 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
26607 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
26608 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
26609 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
26610 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
26613 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
26614 rebuild our server descriptor.
26615 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
26616 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
26617 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
26618 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
26619 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
26620 nonstandard integer types.
26621 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
26622 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
26623 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
26624 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
26625 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
26627 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
26628 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
26629 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
26630 when they receive them.
26631 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
26632 This includes some 64-bit systems.
26633 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
26634 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
26635 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
26636 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
26637 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
26638 router_get_by_hexdigest().
26639 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
26640 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
26644 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
26645 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
26646 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
26647 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
26648 lists for a few hours each day.
26650 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26651 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
26652 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
26653 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
26654 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
26655 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26656 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
26657 rend_process_relay_cell().
26659 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26660 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
26661 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
26662 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
26663 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
26664 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
26665 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
26666 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
26668 o Major bugfixes (other):
26669 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
26670 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
26671 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
26672 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
26673 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
26674 circuit cannibalization).
26675 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
26676 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
26677 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
26678 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
26679 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
26680 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
26683 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
26684 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
26686 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
26687 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
26688 absent. Resolves bug 467.
26689 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
26690 a way to trigger this remotely.)
26691 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
26692 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
26693 were reporting the dir port.)
26694 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
26695 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
26696 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
26697 the future. Fixes bug 434.
26698 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
26700 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
26701 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
26702 the onion key from getting rotated.
26703 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
26704 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
26705 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
26706 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
26707 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
26708 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
26709 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26712 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
26713 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
26714 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
26715 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
26716 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
26719 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
26720 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
26723 o Major bugfixes (security):
26724 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
26725 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
26726 become more of a headache than it's worth.
26728 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
26729 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
26730 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
26732 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
26733 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
26734 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
26735 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
26736 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
26737 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
26739 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
26740 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
26741 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
26742 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
26743 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
26745 o Minor features (controller):
26746 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
26747 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
26748 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
26749 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
26751 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26752 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
26753 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
26754 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
26755 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
26756 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
26757 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
26758 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
26760 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26761 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
26762 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
26763 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
26764 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
26765 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
26766 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
26767 if we ran off the end of the list.
26768 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
26769 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
26770 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
26771 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
26772 every time we change any piece of our config.
26773 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
26774 encourage people using them to stop.
26775 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
26777 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
26778 servers to choose a circuit.
26779 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
26780 unparseable piece of it.
26783 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
26784 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
26785 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
26786 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
26787 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
26788 TorK, etc. Or worse.
26790 o Major security fixes:
26791 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
26792 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
26795 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
26796 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
26797 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
26798 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
26800 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
26801 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
26803 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26804 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
26805 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
26806 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
26807 routerlist while inserting a new router.
26808 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
26809 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
26811 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
26812 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
26813 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
26815 o Major bugfixes (security):
26816 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
26818 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
26819 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
26820 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
26821 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
26822 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
26823 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
26824 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
26825 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
26826 guard list unless we need to.
26828 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
26829 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
26830 don't get overused as guards.
26832 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
26833 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
26834 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
26835 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
26836 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
26838 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26839 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
26840 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
26843 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26844 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26845 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
26846 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
26847 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
26848 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
26849 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
26850 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
26853 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
26854 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
26855 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
26856 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
26858 o Directory authority changes:
26859 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
26860 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
26861 or use hidden services.
26863 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26864 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
26865 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
26866 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
26867 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
26868 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
26869 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
26870 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
26871 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
26874 o Major bugfixes (security):
26875 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
26876 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
26877 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
26879 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
26880 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
26881 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
26882 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
26883 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
26884 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
26885 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
26886 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
26887 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
26888 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
26891 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
26892 purpose=controller.
26893 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
26894 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
26896 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
26897 having a hard time downloading.
26898 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26899 partial results on small file reads.
26900 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
26901 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
26902 the gaps in the store get very large.
26905 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
26906 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
26908 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
26909 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
26912 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
26913 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
26914 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
26915 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
26916 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
26917 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
26919 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
26920 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
26921 free speech on the Internet.
26923 o Major features, client performance:
26924 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
26925 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
26926 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
26927 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
26928 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
26929 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
26930 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
26931 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
26932 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
26933 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
26934 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
26935 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
26936 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
26937 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
26938 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
26940 o Major features, client functionality:
26941 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
26942 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
26943 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
26944 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
26945 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
26946 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
26947 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
26948 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
26949 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
26950 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
26951 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
26952 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
26953 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
26955 o Major features, servers:
26956 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
26957 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
26958 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
26959 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
26960 authenticated, so use with care.
26961 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
26962 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
26963 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
26965 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
26966 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
26967 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
26968 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
26969 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
26970 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
26972 o Improvements on DNS support:
26973 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
26974 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
26975 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
26976 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
26977 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
26978 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
26979 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
26980 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
26981 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
26982 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
26983 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
26984 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
26985 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
26986 lets you turn it off.
26987 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
26988 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
26989 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
26990 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
26991 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
26992 useful to the network.
26993 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
26994 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
26995 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
26996 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
26997 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
26998 our tests for DNS hijacking.
27000 o Improvements on reachability testing:
27001 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
27002 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
27003 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
27004 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
27005 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
27006 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
27007 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
27008 if their identity keys are as expected.
27009 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
27010 chews through many circuits before giving up.
27011 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
27012 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
27013 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
27014 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
27015 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
27016 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
27017 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
27018 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
27019 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
27020 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
27021 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
27022 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
27024 o Improvements on rate limiting:
27025 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
27026 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
27027 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
27028 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
27029 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
27031 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
27032 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
27033 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
27034 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
27035 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
27036 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
27037 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
27038 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
27040 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
27041 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
27043 o Major features, NT services:
27044 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
27045 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
27046 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
27047 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
27048 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
27049 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
27050 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
27052 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
27053 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
27054 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
27056 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
27057 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
27058 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
27060 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
27061 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
27063 o Directory authority improvements:
27064 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
27066 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
27067 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
27068 too much load to the exit nodes.
27069 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
27070 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
27071 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
27072 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
27073 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
27074 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
27075 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
27076 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
27077 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
27078 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
27079 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
27080 broken. Not used yet.
27081 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
27082 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
27083 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
27084 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
27085 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
27086 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
27087 non-versioning dirservers.
27088 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
27089 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
27090 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
27092 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
27093 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
27094 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
27095 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
27097 o Directory mirrors and clients:
27098 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
27099 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
27100 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
27101 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
27102 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
27103 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
27104 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
27105 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
27106 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
27107 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
27108 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
27109 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
27110 routers for even longer.
27111 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
27112 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
27113 caching HTTP proxies.
27114 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
27115 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
27116 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
27117 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
27119 o Major fixes, crashes:
27120 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
27121 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
27122 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
27123 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
27125 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
27126 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
27127 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
27128 stream is detached.
27129 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
27130 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
27131 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
27132 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
27133 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
27134 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
27135 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
27136 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
27137 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
27138 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
27140 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
27141 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
27142 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
27143 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
27144 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
27145 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
27146 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
27147 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
27148 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
27149 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
27150 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
27151 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
27152 could return an unnamed server instead.
27153 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
27154 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
27155 a more attractive target for compromise.)
27156 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
27157 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
27158 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
27159 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
27161 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
27162 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
27164 o Major fixes, other:
27165 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
27166 uptime in the descriptor.
27167 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
27168 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
27169 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
27170 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
27171 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
27172 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
27173 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
27174 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
27175 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
27176 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
27177 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
27178 our DirPort now, etc.
27179 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
27180 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
27181 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
27183 o New config options or behaviors:
27184 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
27185 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
27186 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
27187 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
27188 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
27189 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
27190 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
27191 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
27192 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
27193 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
27194 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
27195 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
27197 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
27198 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
27199 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
27200 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
27201 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
27203 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
27204 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
27205 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
27206 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
27207 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
27208 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
27209 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
27210 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
27211 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
27212 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
27213 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
27214 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
27215 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
27216 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
27217 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
27218 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
27219 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
27220 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
27221 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
27222 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
27223 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
27224 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
27225 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
27226 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
27227 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
27228 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
27229 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
27230 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
27231 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
27232 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
27234 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
27235 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
27236 your ORPort is set.
27239 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
27240 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
27242 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
27243 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
27244 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
27245 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
27247 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
27248 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
27249 whether the config options are bad or good.
27250 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
27251 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
27252 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
27253 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
27254 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
27255 result more than once.
27256 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
27257 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
27258 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
27259 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
27260 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
27261 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
27262 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
27263 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
27264 before we check for libevent.
27265 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
27266 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
27267 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
27268 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
27269 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
27270 recommendation system saner.)
27271 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
27272 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
27273 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
27274 now universal binaries.
27275 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
27276 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
27278 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
27280 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
27281 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
27282 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
27283 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
27284 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
27285 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
27287 o Minor features, controller:
27288 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
27289 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
27290 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
27292 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
27293 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
27294 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
27295 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
27296 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
27297 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
27298 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
27300 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
27301 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
27302 connected or resolved cell.
27303 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
27304 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
27305 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
27306 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
27307 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
27308 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
27309 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
27311 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
27312 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
27313 entry guard status as it changes.
27314 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
27315 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
27316 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
27317 watching for STREAM events.
27318 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
27319 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
27320 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
27321 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
27323 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
27324 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
27325 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
27326 working much like those for circuit events.
27327 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
27328 about the current status of a router.
27329 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
27330 a router's status has changed.
27331 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
27332 can tell which events and features are supported.
27333 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
27334 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
27335 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
27336 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
27337 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
27338 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
27339 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
27340 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
27341 for more information.
27342 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
27343 best guess to the user.
27344 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
27345 descriptor has changed.
27346 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
27347 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
27348 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
27350 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
27351 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
27352 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
27353 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
27354 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
27355 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
27356 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
27357 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
27358 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
27359 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
27360 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
27362 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
27363 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
27365 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
27366 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
27367 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
27369 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
27370 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
27371 the controller from learning about current events.
27372 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
27373 reported by Mike Perry.
27374 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
27375 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
27376 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
27377 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
27378 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
27379 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
27380 long nicknames where appropriate.
27381 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
27382 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
27384 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
27385 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
27386 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
27387 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
27388 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
27390 o Minor features, code performance:
27391 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
27392 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
27393 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
27395 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
27396 some profiles, but not others.)
27397 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
27398 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
27399 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
27400 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
27401 operations, for profiling.
27402 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
27403 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
27404 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
27405 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
27406 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
27407 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
27408 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
27409 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
27411 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
27412 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
27413 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
27414 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
27415 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
27416 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
27417 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
27418 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
27419 family lists conveniently.
27421 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
27422 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
27423 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
27424 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
27425 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
27426 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
27427 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
27428 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
27429 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
27430 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
27431 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
27432 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
27433 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
27434 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
27435 of it), is not therefore "up".
27437 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
27438 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
27439 what version a router is running.
27440 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
27441 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
27442 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
27443 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
27445 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
27446 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
27447 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
27448 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
27449 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
27452 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
27453 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
27454 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
27456 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
27457 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
27459 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
27460 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
27461 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
27462 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
27463 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
27464 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
27465 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
27466 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
27467 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
27468 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
27470 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
27471 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
27472 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
27473 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
27474 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
27475 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
27476 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
27477 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
27478 get one we don't recognize.
27481 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
27482 o Security bugfixes:
27483 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
27484 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
27485 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
27486 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
27490 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
27491 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
27492 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
27495 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
27497 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
27498 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
27499 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27500 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
27501 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
27502 its circuits on demand.
27503 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
27504 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
27505 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
27506 connections more stable on average.
27507 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
27508 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
27509 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
27511 o Security bugfixes:
27512 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
27513 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
27516 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
27518 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
27519 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
27520 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
27521 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
27522 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
27523 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
27524 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
27525 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
27528 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
27530 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
27531 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
27532 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
27533 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
27534 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
27535 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
27536 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
27537 it can't resolve its hostname.
27538 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
27539 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
27540 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27543 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
27544 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
27545 "extendcircuit" request.
27546 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
27547 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
27548 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
27549 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
27551 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
27552 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
27553 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
27555 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
27556 methods: these are known to be buggy.
27557 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
27558 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
27559 we don't recognize.
27562 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
27564 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
27565 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
27566 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
27567 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
27568 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
27569 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
27570 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
27571 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
27572 test reachability, so you won't publish.
27575 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
27576 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
27577 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
27578 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
27579 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
27581 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
27582 own server descriptor yet.
27585 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
27587 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
27588 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
27589 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
27590 make sure to test via one of these.
27591 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
27592 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
27593 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
27594 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
27595 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
27597 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
27598 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
27599 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
27602 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
27603 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
27604 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
27605 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
27606 directory authority.
27607 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
27608 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
27609 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
27610 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
27613 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
27614 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
27615 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
27617 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
27618 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
27619 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
27620 current guards when picking a new guard.
27621 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
27622 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
27623 when we had more than one pending.
27624 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
27625 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
27626 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
27627 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
27628 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
27629 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
27630 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
27631 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
27632 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
27633 debug the reachability problems better.
27635 o Log / documentation fixes:
27636 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
27637 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
27638 about protocol violations by others.
27639 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
27640 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
27641 about what happened to our old torrc.
27644 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
27645 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
27646 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
27647 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
27648 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
27649 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
27651 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
27652 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
27653 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
27654 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
27655 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
27656 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
27657 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
27658 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
27659 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
27660 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
27661 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
27662 on malicious huge inputs.
27664 o Security fixes, major:
27665 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
27666 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
27667 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
27668 misreading their logs.
27669 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
27670 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
27671 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
27672 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
27673 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
27674 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
27675 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
27676 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
27677 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
27678 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
27679 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
27680 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
27681 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
27682 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
27684 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
27685 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
27686 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
27687 firewall options forbid.
27688 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
27689 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
27690 can only proxy to certain destinations.
27691 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
27692 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
27693 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
27695 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
27696 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
27697 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
27698 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
27699 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
27700 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
27701 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
27702 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
27703 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
27704 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
27705 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
27706 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
27707 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
27709 o Security fixes, minor:
27710 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
27711 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
27713 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
27714 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
27715 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
27716 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
27717 if we've not heard of a server.
27718 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
27719 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
27720 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
27721 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
27722 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
27723 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
27724 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
27725 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
27726 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
27727 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
27728 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
27729 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
27730 aids some statistical attacks.
27731 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
27732 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
27733 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
27734 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
27735 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
27736 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
27737 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
27738 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
27741 o Packaging improvements:
27742 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
27743 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
27744 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
27745 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
27746 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
27747 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
27749 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
27750 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
27751 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
27752 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
27753 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
27754 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
27756 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
27757 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
27758 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
27760 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
27761 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
27762 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
27763 They are useless now.
27764 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
27765 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
27766 is reachable by you.
27767 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
27770 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
27771 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
27772 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
27773 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
27774 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
27775 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
27776 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
27777 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
27778 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
27779 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
27780 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
27781 and isolating attacks better.
27782 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
27783 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
27784 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
27785 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
27786 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
27787 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
27788 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
27789 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
27790 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
27791 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
27792 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
27794 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
27795 can answer v2 directory requests too.
27796 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
27797 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
27798 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
27799 mirrors still cache and serve it).
27800 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
27801 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
27802 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
27803 for clients and for servers.
27804 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
27805 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
27806 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
27807 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
27808 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
27809 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
27810 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
27811 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
27812 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
27813 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
27814 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
27816 o Other directory improvements:
27817 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
27818 fifth authoritative directory servers.
27819 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
27820 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
27821 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
27822 to hang up on them.
27823 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
27824 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
27825 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
27826 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
27827 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
27828 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
27830 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
27831 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
27832 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
27833 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
27834 connections more reliable.
27835 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
27836 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
27837 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
27838 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
27839 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
27840 we fail to connect).
27841 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
27843 o Controller protocol improvements:
27844 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
27845 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
27846 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
27847 applications without caring how our protocol works.
27848 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
27849 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
27850 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
27851 many bytes we've used in this time period.
27852 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
27853 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
27854 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
27855 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
27856 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
27857 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
27858 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
27859 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
27860 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
27861 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
27862 or "signal reload".
27863 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
27864 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
27865 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
27866 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
27867 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
27868 a router in its role as directory authority.
27869 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
27870 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
27871 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
27872 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
27873 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
27874 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
27875 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
27876 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
27877 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
27878 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
27879 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
27880 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
27881 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
27882 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
27883 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
27884 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
27885 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
27886 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
27888 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
27889 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
27890 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
27891 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
27892 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
27893 just tell them to go read their logs.
27895 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
27896 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
27897 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
27898 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
27899 try to be a bit more fair.
27900 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
27901 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
27902 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
27903 and we're using a default DirPort.
27904 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
27905 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
27906 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
27907 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
27908 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
27909 services faster on the service end.
27910 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
27912 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
27913 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
27914 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
27915 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
27916 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
27917 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
27918 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
27919 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
27920 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
27921 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
27922 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
27923 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
27924 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
27925 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
27926 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
27927 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
27928 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
27929 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
27930 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
27931 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
27932 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
27933 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
27934 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
27935 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
27936 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
27938 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
27939 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
27940 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
27941 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
27942 so we can be backward-compatible.
27943 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
27944 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
27945 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
27946 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
27947 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
27948 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
27949 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
27950 initial descriptor forever.
27951 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
27952 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
27953 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
27954 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
27955 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
27956 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
27957 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
27958 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
27959 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
27960 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
27961 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
27962 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
27963 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
27964 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
27965 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
27966 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
27967 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
27968 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
27969 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
27970 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
27971 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
27972 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
27973 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
27974 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
27975 ports that have changed.
27976 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
27977 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
27978 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
27979 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
27980 connections once a week.
27981 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
27982 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
27983 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
27984 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
27985 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
27986 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
27987 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
27988 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
27989 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
27990 able to discover them.
27991 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
27992 want to make it an NT service.
27993 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
27994 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
27995 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
27996 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
27997 memory leaks better.
27998 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
27999 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
28000 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
28001 statistics are now uint64_t's.
28002 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
28003 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
28004 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
28005 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
28006 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
28007 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
28008 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
28009 default ulimit -n is 1024.
28010 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
28011 and its existence is confusing some users.
28013 o Config option fixes:
28014 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
28015 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
28016 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
28017 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
28018 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
28019 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
28020 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
28021 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
28022 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
28024 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
28025 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
28026 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
28027 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
28028 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
28029 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
28030 it would silently ignore the 6668.
28031 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
28032 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
28033 silently resetting it to its default.
28034 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
28035 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
28036 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
28037 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
28038 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
28039 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
28040 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
28041 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
28042 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
28043 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
28044 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
28045 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
28046 Address config option.
28047 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
28048 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
28050 o Config option features:
28051 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
28052 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
28053 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
28054 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
28055 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
28057 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
28058 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
28059 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
28060 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
28061 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
28062 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
28063 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
28064 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
28065 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
28066 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
28067 in at least some cases.)
28068 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
28069 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
28070 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
28071 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
28072 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
28073 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
28074 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
28075 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
28076 even if we know they're jerks.
28077 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
28078 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
28079 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
28080 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
28081 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
28082 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
28083 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
28084 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
28085 because older Tors do not understand it.
28086 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
28087 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
28088 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
28089 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
28090 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
28091 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
28092 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
28093 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
28094 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
28095 unattached before we fail it?
28096 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
28097 at least this many seconds ago.
28098 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
28099 at least this many seconds ago.
28100 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
28101 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
28103 o Improved and clearer log messages:
28104 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
28105 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
28106 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
28108 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
28109 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
28110 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
28111 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
28112 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
28113 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
28114 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
28115 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
28116 temporarily unreachable.
28117 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
28118 Windows-style errno back.
28119 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
28120 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
28122 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
28123 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
28124 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
28125 exactly for this case.
28126 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
28127 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
28128 don't warn twice about the same name.
28129 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
28131 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
28132 it was self-testing that told us so.
28133 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
28134 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
28135 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
28136 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
28137 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
28138 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
28139 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
28140 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
28141 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
28142 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
28143 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
28144 established a circuit.
28145 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
28146 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
28147 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
28148 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
28149 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
28150 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
28151 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
28152 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
28153 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
28154 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
28155 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
28156 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
28157 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
28158 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
28159 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
28160 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
28161 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
28162 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
28163 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
28164 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
28165 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
28166 testing for reachability.
28167 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
28168 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
28170 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
28173 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
28174 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28175 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
28176 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
28178 o Other important bugfixes:
28179 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
28180 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
28181 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
28182 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
28184 o Backported features:
28185 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
28186 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
28187 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
28188 without getting overloaded.
28189 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
28190 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
28191 503's whenever they feel busy.
28192 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
28193 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
28194 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
28195 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
28196 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
28199 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
28200 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28201 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
28202 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
28203 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
28204 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
28205 too -- so detect and avoid this.
28206 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
28208 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
28209 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
28210 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
28211 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
28212 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
28213 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
28214 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
28215 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
28216 rendezvous circuits.
28217 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
28219 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28220 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
28221 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
28222 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
28223 advertising it because of hibernation.
28224 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
28225 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
28226 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
28227 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
28228 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
28229 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
28230 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
28231 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
28232 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
28233 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
28234 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
28235 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
28236 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
28237 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
28238 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
28241 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
28242 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28243 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
28244 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
28245 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
28246 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
28247 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
28248 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
28249 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
28250 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
28251 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
28252 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
28253 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
28254 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
28255 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
28258 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
28259 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28260 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
28262 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
28263 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
28266 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
28267 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28268 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
28269 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
28270 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
28271 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
28272 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
28274 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
28275 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
28279 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
28280 o New directory servers:
28281 - tor26 has changed IP address.
28283 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28284 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
28285 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
28286 pthreads libraries.
28287 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
28288 claims its dirport is 0.
28289 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
28290 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
28294 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
28295 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28296 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
28297 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
28298 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
28299 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
28300 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
28301 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
28304 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
28306 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
28307 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
28308 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
28309 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
28310 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
28311 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
28312 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
28313 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
28314 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
28316 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
28317 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
28319 o Assert / crash bugs:
28320 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28321 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28322 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28324 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28325 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
28326 TLS errors better in other situations too.
28327 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
28328 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
28331 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
28332 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
28333 duplicate ram over time.
28334 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
28335 reentry and threadsafeness.
28336 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
28337 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
28338 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
28340 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
28341 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
28342 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
28343 point at your Tor server.
28344 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
28346 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
28347 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
28350 o Protocol correctness:
28351 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
28352 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
28353 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
28354 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
28355 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
28356 to abandon partially built circuits.
28357 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
28358 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
28359 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
28360 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
28361 descriptors we just dropped.
28362 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
28363 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
28364 and to take errno into account where possible.
28365 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
28366 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
28367 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
28368 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
28370 o Robustness improvements:
28371 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
28372 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
28373 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
28375 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
28376 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
28377 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
28378 that will want high uptime circuits.
28379 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
28380 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
28381 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
28382 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
28383 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
28384 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
28385 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
28386 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
28387 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
28388 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
28389 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
28390 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
28391 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
28392 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
28393 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
28394 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
28395 for google.com" problem.
28396 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
28397 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
28398 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
28399 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
28400 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
28403 o Reachability testing.
28404 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
28405 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
28406 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
28407 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
28408 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
28409 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
28410 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
28411 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
28412 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
28413 already connected to them.
28414 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
28418 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
28419 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
28420 nickname+key are allowed.
28421 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
28422 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
28423 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
28424 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
28425 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
28426 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
28427 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
28428 have quite wrong clocks).
28429 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
28430 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
28431 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
28432 their descriptors are being rejected.
28434 o Efficiency improvements:
28435 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
28436 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
28437 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
28438 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
28439 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
28440 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
28441 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
28442 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
28443 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
28444 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
28446 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
28447 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
28448 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
28449 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
28450 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
28451 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
28452 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
28453 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
28454 of CPU time plus memory.
28455 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
28456 directory every time you regenerate it.
28457 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
28458 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
28459 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
28460 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
28461 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
28462 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
28463 lowercase when you first see them.
28466 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
28467 hidden services better.
28468 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
28469 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
28470 when we try to launch one.
28471 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
28472 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
28473 attempts to build a circuit.
28474 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
28475 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
28476 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
28477 normal web requests.
28480 - More Tor controller support. See
28481 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
28482 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
28483 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
28484 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
28485 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
28486 to make it easier to write controllers.
28487 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
28488 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
28489 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
28490 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
28491 new log event types.
28493 o New config options/defaults:
28494 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
28495 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
28496 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
28497 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
28498 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
28500 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
28502 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
28503 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
28504 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
28505 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
28506 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
28508 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
28509 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
28510 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
28511 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
28512 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
28513 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
28514 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
28515 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
28516 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
28517 required exit node for certain sites.
28518 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
28519 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
28520 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
28521 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
28522 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
28523 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
28524 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
28525 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
28526 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
28528 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
28529 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
28530 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
28531 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
28532 private-IP addresses.
28533 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
28534 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
28535 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
28536 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
28537 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
28538 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
28539 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
28540 is valid without actually launching Tor.
28542 o Logging improvements:
28543 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
28544 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
28545 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
28546 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
28548 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
28549 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
28550 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
28551 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
28552 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
28553 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
28554 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
28555 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
28556 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
28558 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
28560 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
28561 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
28562 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
28563 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
28564 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
28565 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
28567 o New contrib scripts:
28568 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
28569 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
28571 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
28572 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
28573 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
28574 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
28575 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
28576 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
28578 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
28579 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
28580 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
28581 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
28585 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
28586 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
28587 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
28588 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
28589 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
28590 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
28591 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
28593 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
28594 something more reasonable when first installing.
28595 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
28596 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
28597 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
28598 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
28600 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
28601 artificially capped at 500kB.
28602 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
28604 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
28605 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
28606 they could use instead.
28607 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
28608 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
28609 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
28610 the user asks you to.
28613 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
28614 rather than just rejecting it.
28615 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
28616 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
28617 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
28618 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
28619 rather than just "success" or "failure".
28620 - A more sane version numbering system. See
28621 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
28622 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
28623 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
28624 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
28625 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
28626 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
28628 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
28629 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
28630 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
28631 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
28633 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
28634 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
28636 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
28637 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
28638 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
28639 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
28641 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
28642 whether the server is hibernating.
28645 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
28646 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
28647 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28648 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28649 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28653 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
28654 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28655 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28656 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
28657 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
28660 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
28661 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28662 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
28663 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
28664 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
28665 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
28666 busy for more than 100 seconds.
28669 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
28670 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28671 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
28672 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
28673 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
28674 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
28675 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
28676 creating actual system users.
28677 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
28678 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
28682 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
28683 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
28684 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
28685 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
28686 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
28687 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
28688 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
28689 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
28690 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
28691 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
28692 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
28693 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
28694 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
28695 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
28696 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
28698 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
28699 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
28700 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
28701 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
28702 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
28703 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
28704 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
28705 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
28706 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
28707 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
28708 existing torrc files.
28709 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
28712 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
28713 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28714 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
28715 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
28716 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
28717 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
28718 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
28719 the win32 SYSTEM account.
28720 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
28721 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
28722 file descriptors available.
28723 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
28724 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
28725 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
28728 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
28729 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28730 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
28731 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
28733 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
28734 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
28735 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
28736 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
28737 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
28739 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
28740 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
28741 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
28742 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
28743 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
28744 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
28745 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
28746 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
28747 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
28748 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
28749 800kB/s of capacity.
28750 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
28753 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
28754 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28755 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
28756 need as much processor time.
28757 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
28758 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
28759 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
28760 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
28761 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
28762 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
28763 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
28764 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
28765 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
28766 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
28767 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
28768 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
28770 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
28771 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
28772 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
28773 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
28774 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
28775 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
28776 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
28779 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
28780 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
28781 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
28783 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
28784 style address, then we'd crash.
28785 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
28786 a dirserver is broken.
28787 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
28789 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
28790 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
28791 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
28793 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
28794 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
28795 name out of the warning/assert messages.
28796 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
28797 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
28798 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
28800 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
28801 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
28802 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
28804 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
28806 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
28807 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
28808 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
28809 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
28810 values at once couldn't work.
28811 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
28812 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
28813 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
28814 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
28815 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
28816 they can handle any number of routers.
28817 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
28818 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
28819 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
28820 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
28821 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
28822 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
28823 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
28824 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
28825 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
28828 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
28829 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28830 - Make hibernation actually work.
28831 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
28832 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
28833 don't use the stream status code.
28836 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
28837 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
28838 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
28839 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
28840 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
28841 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
28842 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
28843 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
28844 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
28845 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
28846 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
28847 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
28850 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
28851 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
28852 win32 socket errors better.
28853 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
28854 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
28855 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
28856 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
28858 - Make unit tests work on win32.
28860 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
28861 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
28862 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
28863 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
28864 right after sending the begin cell.
28865 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
28866 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
28867 exit nodes too. Oops.
28868 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
28869 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
28870 the user would get no response.
28871 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
28872 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
28873 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
28875 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
28876 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
28877 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
28878 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
28879 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
28881 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
28882 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
28883 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
28884 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
28885 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
28886 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
28887 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
28888 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
28889 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
28890 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
28891 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
28893 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
28894 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
28895 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
28896 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
28897 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
28898 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
28899 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
28900 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
28901 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
28902 so we don't see those messages days later.
28903 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
28904 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
28906 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
28907 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
28908 they ran out of file descriptors.
28909 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
28910 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
28911 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
28912 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
28914 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
28915 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
28916 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
28917 the ones we find in directories.)
28918 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
28919 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
28920 if you don't want it open.
28921 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
28922 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
28923 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
28924 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
28925 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
28926 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
28928 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
28929 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
28931 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
28933 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
28934 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
28936 o Features (circuits and streams):
28937 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
28938 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
28939 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
28940 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
28941 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
28942 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
28943 the user knows which one it's talking about.
28944 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
28945 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
28946 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
28947 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
28948 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
28949 from Geoff Goodell.
28950 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
28952 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
28953 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
28954 to fill the last cell completely.
28955 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
28956 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
28958 o Features (bandwidth):
28959 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
28960 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
28961 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
28962 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
28963 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
28964 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
28965 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
28966 your billing cycle starts on.
28967 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
28968 hibernation properties by
28969 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
28970 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
28971 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
28972 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
28973 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
28975 o Features (directories):
28976 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
28977 nickname to its identity key.
28978 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
28979 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
28980 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
28981 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
28982 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
28984 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
28985 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
28987 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
28988 will be able to get a directory.
28989 - Http proxy support
28990 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
28991 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
28992 be routed through this host.
28993 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
28994 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
28995 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
28996 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
28997 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
28998 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
29000 o Features (packages and install):
29001 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
29002 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
29003 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
29004 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
29005 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
29006 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
29007 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
29008 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
29009 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
29010 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
29013 o Features (ui controller):
29014 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
29015 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
29016 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
29017 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
29018 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
29019 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
29020 with the control port.
29021 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
29022 use in authenticating to the control interface.
29023 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
29024 configuration to torrc.
29025 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
29026 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
29027 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
29029 o Features (config and command-line):
29030 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
29031 not on the command line.
29032 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
29034 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
29035 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
29036 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
29037 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
29038 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
29039 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
29040 - New log format in config:
29041 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
29042 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
29043 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
29044 from their dirserver.
29045 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
29047 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
29048 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
29049 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
29050 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
29051 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
29052 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
29053 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
29054 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
29055 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
29056 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
29057 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
29058 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
29059 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
29060 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
29061 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
29062 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
29063 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
29064 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
29065 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
29066 than once per minute.
29068 o Features (other):
29069 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
29070 get back to normal.)
29071 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
29072 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
29073 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
29074 log more informatively.
29075 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
29076 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
29077 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
29078 from each other, to hinder linkability.
29079 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
29080 them act more like real nodes.
29081 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
29082 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
29083 1024) file descriptors.
29084 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
29087 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
29089 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
29090 clients/servers with an open dirport.
29091 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
29092 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
29093 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
29094 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
29095 intermittent connections.
29096 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
29097 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
29099 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
29100 in reporting stats locally.
29101 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
29102 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
29103 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
29106 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
29108 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
29109 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
29110 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
29111 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
29112 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
29113 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
29114 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
29115 list to decide who's running.
29116 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
29117 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
29118 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
29119 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
29120 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
29121 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
29122 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
29123 for pointing out this bug.)
29124 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
29126 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
29127 don't put it into the client dns cache.
29128 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
29129 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
29130 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
29132 o Protocol changes:
29133 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
29134 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
29135 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
29136 hadn't heard of before.
29139 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
29140 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
29141 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
29142 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
29143 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
29144 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
29145 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
29146 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
29147 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
29148 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
29149 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
29150 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
29151 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
29152 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
29153 - Directory caching.
29154 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
29155 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
29156 directory they've pulled down.
29157 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
29158 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
29159 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
29160 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
29161 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
29162 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
29163 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
29165 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
29166 This isn't used yet.
29167 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
29168 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
29169 clients don't use this yet.)
29170 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
29171 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
29172 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
29173 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
29174 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
29175 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
29176 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
29177 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
29178 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
29179 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
29180 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
29181 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
29182 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
29183 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
29184 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
29185 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
29186 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
29187 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
29188 - File and name management:
29189 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
29190 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
29192 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
29193 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
29194 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
29195 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
29196 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
29197 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
29198 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
29200 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
29201 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
29202 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
29204 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
29205 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
29206 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
29207 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
29208 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
29209 - New docs in the tarball:
29211 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
29212 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
29213 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
29214 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
29215 know you might want to get it verified.
29216 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
29217 kazaa, gnutella ports.
29218 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
29219 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
29220 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
29221 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
29222 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
29223 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
29224 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
29226 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
29228 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
29229 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
29231 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
29232 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
29233 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
29236 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
29237 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
29238 ask them to resolve the host "".
29241 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
29242 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
29243 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
29246 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
29247 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
29248 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
29251 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
29252 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
29253 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
29254 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
29256 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
29257 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
29258 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
29260 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
29261 hidden service per 15-minute period.
29262 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
29263 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
29264 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
29265 o Fixes for security bugs:
29266 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
29267 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
29268 a trusted dirserver.
29270 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
29271 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
29272 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
29273 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
29274 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
29275 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
29276 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
29277 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
29278 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
29279 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
29281 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
29282 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
29283 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
29284 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
29285 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
29286 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
29288 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
29291 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
29292 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
29293 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
29294 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
29295 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
29296 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
29297 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
29298 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
29299 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
29300 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
29301 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
29302 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
29303 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
29304 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
29307 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
29308 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
29309 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
29310 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29313 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
29314 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
29315 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
29316 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
29317 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
29318 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29319 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
29323 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
29325 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
29326 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
29327 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
29328 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
29329 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
29330 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
29331 if you decrypted them correctly.
29332 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
29333 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
29334 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
29335 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
29336 in-memory directories too.
29337 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
29338 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
29339 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
29340 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
29341 just close the circ.
29342 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
29343 - Better debugging for tls errors
29344 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
29345 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
29347 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
29348 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
29349 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
29350 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
29351 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
29352 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
29353 it tells you about the first error.
29354 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
29355 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
29356 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
29357 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
29358 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
29359 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
29360 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
29361 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
29362 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
29363 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
29365 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
29366 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
29369 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
29370 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
29372 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
29373 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
29374 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
29375 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
29376 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
29377 expect it to have a nickname.
29378 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
29379 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
29380 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
29381 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
29382 the dns farm to do it.
29383 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
29384 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
29386 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
29387 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
29388 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
29389 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
29390 but that aren't warnings
29393 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
29394 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
29398 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
29399 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
29400 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
29401 - include missing header fcntl.h
29402 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
29403 - deal with hardware word alignment
29404 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
29405 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
29406 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
29407 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
29408 by kill -USR1 currently.
29409 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
29410 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
29411 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
29414 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
29415 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
29416 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
29419 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
29421 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
29422 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
29423 - And fix a few endian issues.
29426 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
29428 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
29429 try that circuit again: try a new one.
29430 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
29431 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
29432 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
29433 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
29434 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
29435 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
29437 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
29438 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
29439 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
29441 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
29443 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
29444 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
29445 side isn't reading right then.
29446 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
29447 RecommendedVersions
29448 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
29449 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
29450 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
29453 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
29455 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
29456 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
29459 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
29463 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
29465 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
29466 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
29467 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
29468 connection is finished.
29469 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
29470 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
29471 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
29472 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
29473 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
29474 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
29475 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
29476 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
29477 rather than warn and continue.
29478 - Make --version work
29479 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
29482 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
29484 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
29485 knows it's working.
29486 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
29487 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
29489 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
29490 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
29491 so you can collect coredumps there.
29493 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
29494 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
29495 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
29496 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
29497 dns cache actually gets populated.
29498 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
29499 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
29500 end cell down it first.
29501 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
29502 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
29505 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
29507 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
29508 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
29510 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
29511 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
29512 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
29513 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
29514 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
29515 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
29517 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
29519 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
29520 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
29521 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
29522 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
29523 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
29524 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
29526 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
29527 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
29530 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
29532 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
29533 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
29534 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
29535 tor. It even has a man page.
29536 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
29537 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
29538 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
29539 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
29541 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
29543 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
29546 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
29548 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
29549 it, apt-getters. :)
29550 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
29551 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
29552 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
29553 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
29554 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
29555 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
29556 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
29557 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
29558 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
29559 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
29560 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
29562 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
29563 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
29566 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
29568 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
29569 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
29572 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
29574 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
29575 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
29576 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
29577 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
29578 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
29579 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
29580 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
29581 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
29582 logfile so you know it's working.
29583 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
29584 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
29587 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
29589 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
29590 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
29591 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
29594 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
29596 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
29597 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
29598 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
29601 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
29602 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
29603 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
29605 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
29606 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
29608 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
29609 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
29610 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
29612 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
29613 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
29617 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
29619 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
29620 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
29621 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
29624 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
29625 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
29626 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
29627 - Add port ranges to exit policies
29628 - Add a conservative default exit policy
29629 - Warn if you're running tor as root
29630 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
29631 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
29632 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
29633 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
29635 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
29638 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
29639 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29640 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
29641 really screw things up.
29642 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
29644 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
29645 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
29647 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
29648 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
29649 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
29650 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
29651 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
29652 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
29655 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
29658 - Change default loglevel to warn.
29659 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
29660 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
29662 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
29665 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
29666 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29667 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
29668 - to get ownership/permissions right
29669 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
29670 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
29671 pull down a directory again
29672 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
29673 causing server crashes
29674 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
29675 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
29676 - exit if bind() fails
29677 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
29678 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
29679 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
29680 - fix minor bias in PRNG
29681 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
29684 - Wrote the design document (woo)
29686 o Circuit building and exit policies:
29687 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
29689 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
29690 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
29691 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
29692 exists, rather than failing
29693 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
29694 which AP connections are standing by
29695 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
29696 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
29697 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
29699 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
29700 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
29703 - APPort is now called SocksPort
29704 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
29706 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
29707 hardcoded (for dirservers)
29708 - Reloads config on HUP
29709 - Usage info on -h or --help
29710 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
29712 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
29713 o General stability:
29714 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
29715 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
29716 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
29717 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
29718 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
29719 to take down the network when I approve a new router
29720 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
29723 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
29724 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
29726 o Autoconf improvements:
29727 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
29728 - Make install now works
29729 - create var/lib/tor on make install
29730 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
29731 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
29733 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
29734 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
29735 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
29736 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup